As I've stated many times I love Etsy, it's a fantastic site with much to offer. The forums are a great place to connect with other sellers and buyers. It's a great help resource, and the posts can make you laugh and sometimes send you to near tears. It's been a great year on Etsy with over 600 sales and 100 percent feedback. Etsy's seller fee's are quite reasonable compared to Ebays, but yet each month the fee is getting higher, mostly with needing to renew items to not get buried in the search pages, renewing pays off when it comes to making sales, but if i renew a $5.00 item 5 times it becomes less than a $4.00 item, and those little bitty 20 cents add up quickly. This would be my main problem with the way Etsy is set up, I do wish they would offer a flat rate fee comparable to Artfire.
I love the flat rate fee at Artfire, it makes so much sense. If you rented an actual brick and mortar space, you wouldn't be charged more for having more inventory or sales, you pay your monthly rent irregardless of your earnings. I don't know about you but the idea of keeping more of my cash is strongly appealing!
I will continue on Etsy, because I love it so but will try to establish a viable business on Artfire too it seems to be a wise business move for me.
If you haven't visited Artfire I encourage you to take a browse..it's a wonderful site for handmade and vintage
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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