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Let us now know them as Merchants.
Etsy has taken on a Bossy, Know – it – all attitude.
Etsy is now peddling junk. Over priced junk.
I won’t be caught dead on there now.
Getting a nice level of respect from My Clients on my site.
The grape vine flourishes.
Etsy is now the child in the basement.
So so sick and tired of Etsy’s manipulation tactics. For the site that says “you can run your business here” they surely are trying to take control of what we do.
We are so barraged with the sale concept that it has truly lost all meaning. No excitement. Too much work to create & manage. Too confusing for the customer who shops 2 days AFTER the sale. Endless tech work for the sellers. On and on.
Good products and good reasonable prices will always sell. Want to make something super exciting? Feature it in an ad (like our Classified Ads here) and watch the attraction happen.
Sorry Etsy – no games for me.
I think if you read between the lines, they’re offering no splitting of the 20%+ discount, AND requiring international shipping on a national holiday sale. If something is out of place, that’s the thing they’re trying to hide. When they submit our sales tax to the states, they get two bumps. One is the rounding error that they get to keep, and two is the allowance for collecting the money for the state. It’s usually a few percent. That would go to our piggybank normally. Now it goes to theirs. I’m sure there is a similar profit to be had from collecting VAT.
We’re tasked with doing the set-up for their international profit and potentially giving away our profit (20% discount) all for a chance at exposure. That’s a pretty expensive lottery ticket.