Comments on: Monthly Fees May Be Coming to Etsy

By: thrifty1

thrifty1 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 01:19:54 +0000

The survey I got mentioned an upper tier store that gave you access to API’s and the ability to offer coupons and run sales….touting keeping commerce human and proclaiming Etsy is a place to purchase special and unique gifts is a BIG FAT LIE!!! Josh needs to be shown the door, because all he has done is cheapen the site….

By: BurglePork

BurglePork — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:53:25 +0000

In reply to NYSteve.

Completely agree. I scroll past “sponsored” offerings and do not ever buy them as I don’t want to reward that behavior.

It SHOULD be illegal to sell ads on any platform the seller is already paying to be on. It’s an obvious conflict of interest, and disincentivizes maintaining and improving all the other ways buyers have to find products.

By: all in the family

all in the family — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:04:26 +0000

Smoke and mirrors. I’d love to leave it there, but I can’t. First of all, I not only remember the Etsy Plus rollout, I subscribed. Mainly because I had wanted more visual control over my shop, and liked the credits for listing fees and etsy ads.

So to these “new” perks Etsy is hoping to implement don’t sound new and are, at best, vague. Etsy plus already offers a $5 credit for Etsy ads (if not offsite, it’s still better for me), and a little more customization on visuals and a few other minor aspects of the selling page.

Discount for purchasing on Etsy? Who will pay for that? Will Etsy?

Access to custom web address, um, have they heard of Pattern? That’s been around for years…and I thought was very bad and very user unfriendly for the price.

Discounts and perks, also already existing, for things like cards, packaging and tax help even.

So what’s new about any of this? Reminds me of all the help Etsy has offered to sellers over the years, most of which many original makers on the site had long known about and used. Don’t need Etsy to tell me how to run a business.

By: NYSteve

NYSteve — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:23:59 +0000

none of these ‘seller benefits’ help the seller , more than pad the marketplace’s bottom line:
“$5 monthly credit for Etsy Ads or Offsite Ads;
Discount for purchasing supplies on Etsy;
Access to Discounts and perks (custom shipping boxes, business cards)”

BUT, nothing is , what could best be described as, downright robbery like paid promotions (ads)
and should be made ILLEGAL, as it is is totally unethical, to say the least, for sellers to be charged for listings, then charged AGAIN to have them visible to buyers!

I have greatly limited my shopping on sites where the first few listings say anything like ‘sponsered’
and if still do shop at (marketplace name redacted) I skip over any listings that say so….even if they coincidentally happen to have the lowest price or best offer (which is even more of a waste of the seller/ad buyer’s money)