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Etsy is somehow being even worse, do not click etsy ads

Etsy is now forcing shop owners to be part of their ads. We can not opt out.

To anyone who buys from etsy: DO NOT EVER CLICK THEIR ADS

They are rolling out a program where if you get a sale from an ad they put out, they’re taking 12-15% of the profit(probably on top of the like, 5%ish+ they already take). Even worse, if you have clicked an Etsy ad in the last 30 days ANYONE YOU BUY FROM ON ETSY IN THAT PERIOD WILL BE BILLED THAT FEE. 

So please, if you see an ad for something you like off etsy, do not click it. Just go on etsy and search for it.

This is somehow worse than what storenvy used to pull. 

Please go directly through an artist or see if they have their own storefront (I use bigcartel) instead of purchasing off etsy. And if you must, just please, please, never click an etsy ad.

Hey I opened my etsy shop back up after years to destash some stuff and make a little extra money and so I ran smack into this myself.  DO NOT CLICK ETSY ADS to buy something.  It charges the seller a huge fee that that did not expect or agree to.  In my case it was pretty much large enough to eat all my profit.  The only way to fight against this is to increase all your prices a lot in case anyone buys your stuff after clicking on an ad, therefore driving all prices up. 

And it’s not 12-15% of the profit, it’s 12-15% of the PRICE.  There’s no way Etsy knows the cost of the actual item before profit.  So if you price your wares with 15% profit for yourself, congrats you’ve lost money on the transaction. 

Just a reminder for holiday season and in general.

Let me break this down with actual numbers:

Etsy charges the following fees on every single item sold (and they stack):

So how does that shake out in actual cost? Here’s an example:

Let’s say I make a handcrafted item for $15 in materials, sell it on Etsy for $35, and it costs $8 to ship – not bad, right? On the surface, it looks like I’m making $20 for the time and labor I put in to make the thing.

Except right off the top, Etsy skims $4.26 in base fees from that transaction. Etsy’s free shipping guarantee (which technically has an opt-out, but they penalize sellers heavily in search results for not offering it) kicks in at $35, so that makes me responsible for the shipping costs – now I’m down another $8. If the buyer clicked on an ad, that’s $6.45 on top of listing/processing/shipping fees. Now I’m potentially paying up to $16.20 in fees and shipping for that sale.

That leaves me, the designer and craftsperson, making only $3.80 on a handmade item that sells for $35.

My time and labor should be worth more than a Starbucks drink, y'all.

And that’s before you get to Etsy’s predatory sale structuring, or their paywall-locked “Etsy Plus” features, or the way they take over your credit card processing once your account is linked (I can’t use my Square account for point-of-sale card processing without Etsy charging all of these fees, even on sales I make in person at craft fairs)… Basically, Etsy hides fees at every level of the sale process and is essentially nickel-and-diming small businesses and hobbyists to death.

We all know Etsy is garbage – but the unfortunate truth is that a lot of people choose to shop there for handmade and niche goods, and buyers are often reluctant to purchase from an independent website without big-name purchase protection. Everyone’s afraid of being scammed, so they flock to giants like Etsy and Amazon and eBay for their satisfaction guarantees (even when the price of customer dissatisfaction comes straight out of sellers’ bank accounts).

As sellers, our only recourse is to pass the exorbitant fees on to the buyer, which 1) prices us out of much of our target market, and 2) annoys shoppers (many of whom have come to expect mass-market Walmart prices rather than handmade boutique goods) into complaining about how expensive everything in our shop is. You wouldn’t believe how many “I love this but you’re charging too much” comments I’ve gotten. My dude, I can’t charge less. I have listings that literally only net me a profit of 54 cents per item, and I can’t live on that.

All this to say: Please, PLEASE do not click on Etsy ads. If you want to look at an item you saw in an ad, search for it by name/description from the Etsy site (and you may find more things you’re interested in that way, anyway). If you do accidentally click on an ad, go to your address bar and remove everything after the first “?” in the URL and reload to turn off link tracking, and delete any Etsy browser cookies before making a purchase.

And if the seller you’re interested in has a storefront that’s not on Etsy, consider buying items from there instead. It might turn out to be cheaper than buying the item on Etsy, and even if it isn’t, you can feel better about the purchase knowing that more of the price is going to the person who made the item rather than into Etsy’s pockets.

Aborting the Kickstarter

Hello, my name is Trevor Roberts. For better or worse, I am the artist & writer behind the Mystery Flesh Pit project. As many of you know, about a week ago a team of developers and I launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a videogame adaptation of the Mystery Flesh Pit. After a lot of fan feedback, a fumbled marketing push, internal disputes, and some deep introspection, I have made the decision to cancel the Kickstarter as of this Monday, November 28th. 

None of the pledges made toward the campaign will be collected by Kickstarter, so no one is going to lose any money they have pledged to support it.

To those who were looking forward to a videogame, I apologize. Most people do not fully appreciate what a substantial undertaking it is to produce even a modest videogame. I have personally and carefully created each and every piece of the Mystery Flesh Pit project, but something as large as a videogame is wholly beyond my scope as an individual artist. When I am not the one directly responsible for overseeing its creation, I cannot ensure its quality. After this experience I can firmly state that there will be no endorsed videogame adaptions of the Mystery Flesh Pit as long as I am alive To those who are and have been avid supporters and enjoyers of Mystery Flesh Pit content, I apologize for losing focus of what this projects appeal has always been. 

I sincerely hope that by cancelling this overly-ambitious Kickstarter campaign I have avoided what could have been a rushed and inferior gaming experience at best, and an unmitigated disaster at worst. It is also my hope that my decision to endorse this particular Kickstarter does not harm or hinder the superior work of other credible, talented creators that are and have been working hard behind-the-scenes to bring you a Mystery Flesh Pit Tabletop Gaming Experience late in 2023. 

Regular (or, as regular as Flesh Pit material can be) content will resume as I direct all of my attention towards the completion of the Mystery Flesh Pit Book.

Thank you for reading my Very Serious Post™ about imaginary mystery meat on the internet. 

raises my hand . professor you are bald as hell. god damn

Losing it over the “2 ingredient pie recipe” I saw on Instagram where the ingredients are 1. store bought pie crust and 2. store bought pie filling. GIRL THATS NOT 2 INGREDIENTS THATS A REGULAR PIE

1 ingredient pie recipe: buy a pie at the bakery

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literally an hour after this phoenix admits hes never bought lettuce

Nintendo uploaded a video about Marth but for some reason I can’t get over how this video starts