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Oh bless his heart.
This won’t hurt sellers nearly as much as it would hurt Etsy. They wouldn’t be able to screech ‘we’re just the venue’, run to a safe place and curl up in a ball if they had to take responsibility for something sold on their site. I love that this slime only acknowledges sellers when it suits his purposes.
Exactly Cookie, Josh is & has always been all about Etsy & how much more he can charge his customers (the sellers) to keep his shareholders happy with fat pockets. He is the epitome of a bottom feeding slop sucker.
Has anyone looked up the number of businesses and fashion labels Bezos owns? Isn’t Amazon a monopoly?
(..) ” , , , , , .” This man talks out both sides of his mouth. How can he say this when he’s charging 20% offsite ad fees to his best sellers for sales that are coming from customers that were already buying from those sellers? We all know that our regular customers are being shown ads from the sellers they currently buy from & that it’s human nature to click on something that is put in front of you especially if you know that seller.
I’m so glad I saw the writing on the wall & got my own site before the off site ads started. The day Etsy started actually charging the sellers, I deactivated all my listings, made them all manual renewals & put my shop on a permanent vacation to see if Etsy would come to their senses. Since they haven’t & it looks like they never will, I think I’m going to end up closing my Etsy shop all together. My site is doing just fine & I get to run my business without worrying about what bomb Etsy is going to drop on me next.
Josh really needs to figure out that it takes a lot of little shops that don’t have many sales to make up for one supply seller that is in the top 1% of all Etsy shops.
I’m sorry the beginning of my comment didn’t post… it should have started with… Etsy (J.S.) said “We are in the middle of a pandemic, raging unemployment, and unprecedented wildfires, and as Americans we need to be helping, not hindering, our small businesses.”
To quote a knowledgeable party from YouTube :
“Silverman is NOBODY to talk about abuse. He’s helping himself to 12% EXTRA as he punishes Etsy Artists making 10k or more with this 12% Success Penalty Fee.
Brings his take to 23%.
Such BULLSHIT.”
Can’t argue with that.