DISQUS

michele bango · 1 year ago

Great artical! I am a vendor and a buyer on Etsy...I joined a few months after they started..I have seen it change and get better and better...it is a great way to support Indie artists across the country.You would be amazed at the quality of the items offered.
Thanks

mary morgan · 1 year ago

I just learned about etsy recently. I have already forwarded it to friends who are potential vendors, bookmarked it for my own use, & though retired w/o much money to spend, am going to look at investing. Mary Morgan

Linda Y. · 1 year ago

I have been an Etsy seller/buyer since 2005. It was great in the beginning, but now it is being bombarded with sellers who carry mass-produced items in their shops because Etsy's fees are much lower than eBay's. Those of us who make handcrafted items try constantly to alert the Etsy staff, but nothing is being done. Why would they shut down a user that brings in money? It's sad but Etsy has lost the DIY spirit for me.

Finding_Angel_Investor · 1 year ago

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Tom Thumb · 1 year ago

While things can be very annoying with the inexperienced management team, it's equally interesting to see how much of the complaining users seem to have no idea about VC strategies (and business in general). Which leads to one insight: while users should be given the feeling that they're heard and respected, it's very wrong to give them the feeling that they virtually own the company. They don't, and they are not in the place to act up as if they had shares sitting in their wallets.

Had the Etsy management had a proper business plan and experience, or rather, had Robert Kalin cared to do his homework first instead of continuing his lifestyle of muddling himself around hurdles (Robert, it's not a good idea to make this fact a media goodie), then problems like these wouldn't have surfaced in the first place.

Because what was the trouble good for? Nothing, except for to prove that even a niche product needs to rely on classic economics and appropriate experience in order to be successful and to minimize risk. Of course, the illiterati wouldn't guess that.

Have fun, Jim, cleaning up the mess.

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Scott Carr · 1 year ago

Artery Gallery also strongly support handmade craft over mass produced goods.

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Ahna · 1 year ago

Fashionspace.com is a great option for selling of handmade, as well as ready-to-wear garments and accessories. It also has a strong system in place to help new designers or sellers build a solid brand identity. It's free to list items, but Fashionspace takes a commission of each item sold. The marriage of the sales platform and the social networking platform make for a superior site to any that I've seen.

Rusty · 1 year ago

Another site that brings together all the handmade sellers, whether they are in India or the USA, and whether they sell on etsy, ebay, or their own store front and makes it all searchable is www.handmadebyhand.com
Free to use, and even free to list you items. Does not take care of the sale though.
Check it out especially if you sell handmade goods

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