I do hope this fits here, in case it doesn’t feel free to remove.
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/2383962
Finally, there’s a no-tech-knowledge-needed alternative to Etsy. I’m really excited about where this will go!
They still have 9.5% commission(or this drops to 8.5% if you pay $1000 artisan fee!), compared to Etsy which works out to be around 11-12% on most of the items I sell.
It also doesn’t link with my inventory management software. Etsy does, eBay does, Woocommerce does, Facebook does. It also doesn’t integrate with my shipping software, so I need to manually generate labels.
The benefits seem very minimal for a lot of caveats. If you have 1 or 2 products then fine, but when you have 10’s or 100’s of products, the time to list these on a site that will have a lot less traffic is way too long. I have a 2% gain in my profit margin, but a tonne more hassle.
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The junk sold on Etsy completely killed that site for me. It’s just shit from temu/wish now and very little is actually hand made.
It’s an immature platform but with adoption it could be a viable alternative. Sure, it’s a 2% increase in margin today with a lot of extra hassle so that’s why it’s probably going to attract more idealistic and smaller creators in the beginning to try and build a platform free of the Chinese dreck. In a year this could be great and we all know Etsy is not getting any better. So it’s for people who have a certain vision for the future. It’s much easier to follow trends than set them though, so I can see why it’s not a great business proposition for established companies just looking to keep turning a profit.
Yeah but eventually it’ll be sold and become Etsy. So whatever benefits it does have, it’s temporary.
This has real “why should I shower I’m just gonna get dirty again” energy
If you don’t mind me asking … what inventory software do you use?
I use Nembol. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s cheap and does exactly what I need it to do.
Hell yeah, fuck Etsy! That place is such a cesspool now.
