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I looked at selling stuff on Etsy recently and was completely turned off, basically you are competing against cheap knockoff or mass produced products from swea
by coldcode 7y ago
I looked at selling stuff on Etsy recently and was completely turned off, basically you are competing against cheap knockoff or mass produced products from sweatshops. Despite what management says, its nothing more now than an Amazon with a better looking website. What Etsy was, was a valuable place for small craftspeople, what Etsy is today is just another money machine.
- ineedasername 7y agoI sell on Etsy. It's harder, yes, since the explosion of clearly mass-produced knockoffs. However, with quality products (and especially a focus on producing quality photos of those products) sellers can still do well, and plenty of buyers recognize the difference. In fact plenty of buyers deliberately avoid those super low priced items because they are looking for legitimately handmade quality items. I actually raised my prices to help distinguish myself in that way and while I don't sell as many items, I still sell about the same $ amount.