Oh yeah, I'm aware of / participating in the strike and have been sharing information on it.
I've been on Etsy for 10 years, I've been participating in strikes re: Etsy for about 8 of those years. If you think this is the first time Etsy has treated its sellers like absolutely *garbage*... well, anyway. They've been treating us like shit for a long time.
But other online shop options require more labour that a disabled person like myself simply doesn't have the spoons to keep up with. And because I have very few buyers overall, I doubt I'd ever sell more than an original piece a year for all the extra labour I'd have to do to maintain a separate online business even through somewhere like Shopify. And if I sell five pieces with a 6.5% fee on each, vs. one piece with a lower fee (or no fee) it still works out to far less income, unfortunately.
There is no other online market like Etsy - especially for small business who don't have the energy to make constant Tiktoks and Instagram reels and put money into ads etc. to make sales - and they know it, and that's why they treat the small-time sellers like absolute shit. They are the Amazon of crafts.
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Date: 2022-04-12 03:10 pm (UTC)I've been on Etsy for 10 years, I've been participating in strikes re: Etsy for about 8 of those years. If you think this is the first time Etsy has treated its sellers like absolutely *garbage*... well, anyway. They've been treating us like shit for a long time.
But other online shop options require more labour that a disabled person like myself simply doesn't have the spoons to keep up with. And because I have very few buyers overall, I doubt I'd ever sell more than an original piece a year for all the extra labour I'd have to do to maintain a separate online business even through somewhere like Shopify. And if I sell five pieces with a 6.5% fee on each, vs. one piece with a lower fee (or no fee) it still works out to far less income, unfortunately.
There is no other online market like Etsy - especially for small business who don't have the energy to make constant Tiktoks and Instagram reels and put money into ads etc. to make sales - and they know it, and that's why they treat the small-time sellers like absolute shit. They are the Amazon of crafts.