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The online auction venue Etsy has migrated to its new version known as Etsy v2. Details of the upgrade can be found on its blog at: http://blog.etsy.com/. The focus of Etsy has been to provide a reasonably-priced yet quality venue for the presentation and sale of handmade items and private artworks. One quick trip to its home page gives more than enough tempting options to tease the down home spirit in just about anyone.
Etsy has initiated the v2 upgrade based on a desire to make its site more useful, stable and user friendly. Etsy's seller charges are reasonable. A listing charge is 20 cents for four months and the final value fee is a flat 3.5%. Etsy allows sellers to list a wide range of handmade items and it asks that sellers refrain from presenting any type of mass produced goods.
You may investigate Etsy investment options by contacting: mailto:press@etsy.com
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-09-2006 @ 8:57PM
Michele said...
Gary, good reporting; I LOVE Etsy... If you make and sell handcrafted items, you really need to check out this site... The change is that listing used to be .10 for 6 months and is now .20 for 4 months... The only items you are allowed to list that are not handcrafted are supplies, which is awesome, as it keeps the site focused and free of things that shouldn't be there... You also can put in meta tags and the support there is quite good...
One tip: List often, so your items are not buried in the search... Some incredible stuff there to be found...
Also, make sure you promote yourself and Etsy everywhere you can... A lot of the sellers there are college students, so the "sellers selling to sellers" is not as prominent as on other up and coming sites...
Did I mention I love Etsy?
11-17-2006 @ 3:22PM
avital said...
Please note that Etsy is not an auction site. It's a site where goods are sold, not auctioned. Also, non-handmade goods are very well allowed to be sold, however only in their specially set-up categories. Note the increase in vintage/yardsale sellers migrating from eBay to Etsy; also note the amount of craft items suppliers. None of them offers a single piece of handmade goods.
To the commenter above - add to the non-handmade, mass-produced items allowed for listing "vintage", too.
"Sellers selling to sellers" actually is a big part of where the cash goes; repeated discussions on the forums speak for themselves. The forums, by the way, are a good way to get a taste of how the sellers community ticks. To enter chatrooms and comment on the forums, one has to be registered user (buyer status suffices).