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I would be in for the christmas thing (etsy shop is elephunkstrunk) Also, I'm sponsoring my first sneak attack on etsy today. I'd love it if you guys came and helped bumb the tread maybe even purchased from the victims if you have any cash to spare. http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6262697
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pennylane posted:Just a question, how do you guys deal with items that have gone missing in the post? I had a necklace go missing on it's way to Istanbul, 2 months later it never showed up. The guy at the post office told me it is pretty common for things to just "go missing" when sending them to Turkey. It didn't have tracking so there was nothing I could do really. For starters the postage was way more than I had estimated (close to $15) so I lost money on that sale to begin with. Maybe I am just mean, but if the buyer is in Turkey and it really is common for things to go missing then it seems like they should have asked about insurance to begin with. It is really awesome that you are offering a redo but I don't think it'd be harsh if you wouldn't have offered it.
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I was wondering if anyone here did any real life craft fairs? I'm going to my first one this weekend and I'm a little nervous. Does anyone have any advice? Or suggestions on what I should bring?
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Jet-Poop posted:My sister just started selling her glass there during the last month or so. She doesn't really know what to charge people for stuff. She's been making stuff for years but only recently started selling any of it. Your sister's glassware is pretty awesome. If I had the money, I'd buy a couple of pieces.
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pixel8ed posted:You get paid however you would like. You can take cheque, money order... Most however do Paypal since it's pretty instant. Well, instant for the buyer. As a seller I have to wait days to get money out of Paypal and into my bank account but it's only a minor inconvenience. You can get a Paypal debit card, for free, so you can have access to your funds immediately. That's what I did. They charge ATM fees, but I haven't been charged a fee for getting cash back at stores.
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Wandering Knitter posted:I was wondering if anyone here did any real life craft fairs? I'm going to my first one this weekend and I'm a little nervous. I've helped friends in a few craft fairs and artist alleys. Bring extra bags/ways for customers to carry their purchases, lots of change (1s 5s 10s in bills and stock up on quarters), extra pens and paper. If you have a portfolio showing older work or other things that would be fun to show off too. It doesn't hurt to have food packed away as well. That way you don't have to ask your fair neighbor to watch your stuff while you go grab a bite.
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pennylane posted:Just a question, how do you guys deal with items that have gone missing in the post? I had a necklace go missing on it's way to Istanbul, 2 months later it never showed up. The guy at the post office told me it is pretty common for things to just "go missing" when sending them to Turkey. It didn't have tracking so there was nothing I could do really. For starters the postage was way more than I had estimated (close to $15) so I lost money on that sale to begin with. I had an item lost in the mail a couple months ago and I ended up just making another (I had offered her a replacement or a refund). She loved it when the 2nd item finally arrived (first is still lost), and left me glowing feedback.
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(cross posting from the etsy thread in GBS) Some of these shops make me insanely jealous, but here's my little store  Screaming Cat Head
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animeluva1 posted:Very helpful advice My craft fair went off without a hitch! Good call on the portfolio. It was nice to show people that I could do other things beyond bunnies and kittens. That being said I still have plenty of stock leftover for a Goony Christmas team-up.
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Sep 6, 2009 03:40
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Speaking of which, is anyone going to step up to organize any of the holiday stuff? I'd love to but I just can't commit to anything at the moment as I have like zero free time with the baby now.
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I'll do the organizing. No problem. I'm thinking we should aim for a target date of around October 20th to launch the ad and thread in SA Mart. Anyone have any objections to that? Other than that if everyone participating could email/pm me so I can keep everything straight I'd appreciate it. Just let me know in the message your SA username, etsy name and shop address and that should do it. Oh, and if you're offering an SA only offer let me know that as well (free shipping, free product, percentage discount, etc). I'm trying to remember how much we all pitched in for the ads last year and I think it was maybe around $10, but I could be wrong. My email address is my SA username at gmail.com
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So I've been trying to convince my aunt to jump on the Etsy thing for a while now, and she finally did it! I can't believe it took as long as it did to convince her that the internet would reach more people than one little Minneapolis boutique... http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7272908 Christmas is always exciting because I'm her goddaughter and that improves my chances slightly of getting one of her bags. I've been lucky twice so far. They're even cooler in real life.
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Ampersand posted:So I've been trying to convince my aunt to jump on the Etsy thing for a while now, and she finally did it! I can't believe it took as long as it did to convince her that the internet would reach more people than one little Minneapolis boutique... Those purses are really sweet. I have a similar sort of repurposed purse that I picked up a while back, but it looks a lot less professional. Tell your aunt that hers are awesome! What boutique is she selling at? Also, unrelated to that, I made a post in August asking for feedback on my etsy shop, and apparently didn't link to it because I am an idiot. So here it is: paxattacks.etsy.com
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Sep 8, 2009 16:24
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Posting again to promote my friend's etsy shop, she does similar reconstruction and handmade bits for necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Her stuff is adorable and you should check it out: Wishbowl
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Sep 9, 2009 03:21
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I've been trying to sell some of my original gouache and acrylic paintings on my Etsy this summer, but I seem to have the hardest time selling my stuff at a decent price. Any feedback? The paintings I'm selling are originals, not prints, so lowering my prices much more than this would be totally unprofitable. Here's my shop! Any advice?
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Sep 24, 2009 06:45
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Saucy Robot posted:I've been trying to sell some of my original gouache and acrylic paintings on my Etsy this summer, but I seem to have the hardest time selling my stuff at a decent price. Any feedback? The paintings I'm selling are originals, not prints, so lowering my prices much more than this would be totally unprofitable. I think selling art is hard, and you definitely shouldn't lower your prices. Keep adding more--people like variety it gives them more to choose from. Also try renewing the painting you do have listed at least every couple of days or so to keep yourself toward the front of searches.
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Sep 24, 2009 13:14
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Saucy Robot posted:I've been trying to sell some of my original gouache and acrylic paintings on my Etsy this summer, but I seem to have the hardest time selling my stuff at a decent price. Any feedback? The paintings I'm selling are originals, not prints, so lowering my prices much more than this would be totally unprofitable. I love your stuff! If I had money right now, I would snatch up a couple of those pieces in an instant. Your prices seem a bit low for originals, especially considering the quality, but it can be really difficult to price your art to reflect the effort you put into it and still have people buy it. One suggestion that I might make would be to add in some sketches or drawings at a lower price, just to get people in and buying things. Still, of course, priced to be worthwhile for you, but then everyone can see how cool your work is before committing to a more expensive purchase.
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Saucy Robot posted:I've been trying to sell some of my original gouache and acrylic paintings on my Etsy this summer, but I seem to have the hardest time selling my stuff at a decent price. Any feedback? The paintings I'm selling are originals, not prints, so lowering my prices much more than this would be totally unprofitable. Your paintings are actually really good. I think the issue is the market you're approaching. Etsy is not really a venue for up-and-coming artists or fine art type stuff. Of course you can sell stuff on there, but it would be hard to make a living. The exception I'd say might be printed materials that are reproduced easily and sold at lower price / higher quantity like screen prints or block prints, but even then, who knows. Honestly I would suggest trying to find other avenues to sell your art - small restaurants that are home owned, cafes, etc. Offer them a % of the sale and charge a moderate amount. Consider selling at fairly low prices to build up a client / e-mail list of people who like your style. In fact any kind of store front that sells weird / offbeat stuff or caters to "weird" folk would be a good place to approach, just expect to be turned down 9/10 times. You only need a few spots to show, really. Working in series or with similar themes will help you here, as well.
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Saucy Robot posted:I've been trying to sell some of my original gouache and acrylic paintings on my Etsy this summer, but I seem to have the hardest time selling my stuff at a decent price. Any feedback? The paintings I'm selling are originals, not prints, so lowering my prices much more than this would be totally unprofitable. Do you have more pieces available? I think more variety would help. Also offering prints for ~$20 may help as well. Your prices do seem mighty low for originals but more than many of the people who would be inclined to buy can pay. I'd buy a print of the squid and little girl for $20.
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Wow, I really love the Owl Swing Saucy Robot... I need money to get this, why do I have to be poor right now  EDIT: The more I look at it, the more I want it. pepsigloworm fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Oct 1, 2009 |
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Is anyone else having trouble keeping up with all the changes going on? Teaching and research are keeping me from checking the Etsy forums as often, and I'm rather surprised to hear about the whole Google Base and SEO updates. Correct me if I'm wrong; Etsy will automatically load our products into Google Base in Nov/Dec, and the only SEO update is a huge pdf "how-to"? About the only other thing I got around to today was checking my site optimization info. I used http://www.rankingtoday.com/seo/site-checkup.php?SID=GADW but if anyone has a better resource do post it. So far it shows zantie.etsy.com as being moderately ranked, while my other catalog is listed as excellent. Apparently keywords are the shop sections, and the description is what we have in our profile. Not terribly useful, but maybe it'll get better?
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Oct 3, 2009 05:33
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Zantie posted:Is anyone else having trouble keeping up with all the changes going on? It's not just you. It got to the point where I gave up and let my cousin "correct" my shop for me since she's been able to follow what's going on.
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Oct 3, 2009 05:40
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Zantie posted:
I just put my shop in there and there are a couple of places (title tags, META keywords) where the result was "warning" with a big ole exclamation mark, but no helpful information on how to fix it or what was wrong with it. Is that information somewhere else?
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Hey everyone, fall is here and Halloween is on the way! And they're my favorite season and holiday respectively...so show me what you've got, Etsy goons! Here's some seasonal stuff from my shop. Necklaces: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31384520 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19991180 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22731273 Paper Goods: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31218782 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31989223 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31219852 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31952724 Magnets: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31951198 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31949676 Your turn. 
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I have some items I'd like to sell on Etsy made out of ~*Brand Designer*~'s fabric, which I have purchased on the cheap. Does anyone know the legality of selling these items stating that they are made from ~*Brand Designer*~'s fabric? The designer in question in is incredibly litigious and I don't want to give them any grounds to start anything.
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Oct 11, 2009 11:46
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I'd imagine you wouldn't be able to use the designer's name to sell your products without permission as it'd be a breach of copyright. I'm not an expert on this stuff though, someone else might know more.
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Rolled Cabbage posted:I have some items I'd like to sell on Etsy made out of ~*Brand Designer*~'s fabric, which I have purchased on the cheap. Does anyone know the legality of selling these items stating that they are made from ~*Brand Designer*~'s fabric? The designer in question in is incredibly litigious and I don't want to give them any grounds to start anything. Do you mean you've taken an item of clothing, say a shirt you bought from DKNY, and have turned it into a different piece of clothing or item? It seems on Etsy that something like that is simply considered "recycling" or "upcycling," and a lot of sellers do it. As long as you bought the item and didn't reproduce it and try to sell it under the designer's name, you should be Ok. A lot of people use pieces of books and stuff in their items, and that's allowed so long as they use a piece of the actual book they bought--using a scanned and printed image, however, would be toeing the line of copyright infringement. If you mean fabric as in "Amy Butler designed this swatch of fabric that I bought," you are also allowed to use that to make an item and you should be allowed to mention the name of the designer. Supply vendors on Etsy sell designer fabric all the time, and artists are constantly selling clothes, bags, coasters, towels, etc. made from the fabric and mentioning the designer's name in their item's info. I can't imagine the designer getting upset with this, as it's pretty much free advertising for them.
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Rolled Cabbage posted:I have some items I'd like to sell on Etsy made out of ~*Brand Designer*~'s fabric, which I have purchased on the cheap. Does anyone know the legality of selling these items stating that they are made from ~*Brand Designer*~'s fabric? The designer in question in is incredibly litigious and I don't want to give them any grounds to start anything. If your talking about just regular fabric (like what you would buy at jo-ann's) look down the side of the fabric at the information strip, and if it says anything like "Not for commercial use" or "Home use only" then those are the types of fabrics you can't make things to sell. Usually anything that is licensed print is kept in a seperate location in Jo-Ann's (think Disney, Muppets, Dora, Sports Teams, etc). However there have been quite a few fabrics I've seen that are in the regular section that have the "For home use only" strip down the side. Obviously, this doesn't stop anyone from making these things and selling them on Etsy. Doing that can get your shop shut down. If you read through the forums, there is a bunch of he said/she said crap about how you can sell items made with licensed fabric if you say its non-official, and made with fabric (but no one official has ever said that obviously). Supposedly there are lots of loopholes that allow you to sell these items, etc. Apparently there was one person successful enough to stand up to Disney when they came knocking, but the point is, that costs a lot of money/time/  so I personally just stay away from all fabric that has the warning strips.Oh and don't confused it if it says "Copyright" on the side, that just means the fabric design its self is copyrighted.
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Thanks for the advice guys. It's not recycled fabric, so I guess I'm going to stear clear of using it.
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Are the goons going to do another Christmas team-up with banner ads? And when?
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A good friend of mines shop. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7065885 Knitted scarves, arm warmers, bags, hair accessories, ect.
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Saucy Robot posted:I've been trying to sell some of my original gouache and acrylic paintings on my Etsy this summer, but I seem to have the hardest time selling my stuff at a decent price. Any feedback? The paintings I'm selling are originals, not prints, so lowering my prices much more than this would be totally unprofitable. I'm the guy that just bought two of your works. I think there's something to said about spreading the word on your shop, because without checking this thread I probably would have never seen your works, seeing as an Etsy search for original paintings brings up over a thousand hits. Apart from just loving your art, I thought the prices were very reasonable considering these appear to be quality originals. I look forward to seeing them on my walls.
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Wandering Knitter posted:Are the goons going to do another Christmas team-up with banner ads? And when? I had posted to get interest a while ago and I've only heard from 3 people. Not sure how we want to proceed with that.
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pixel8ed posted:I had posted to get interest a while ago and I've only heard from 3 people. Not sure how we want to proceed with that. Oh.  Maybe you should make a topic just for it? Or message some known etsy people? I could help. 
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My fiancee and I just opened an Etsy shop this week. It's mostly jewellery (rings and necklaces) but there are a couple 'other' things like a snazzy jewelry rack (my design) and some fancy pet-bowl holders. People seem to like the sun-and-clouds rings so far edit: I'm an idiot and I didn't include a link. It's http://weaselfactory.etsy.com xdrquinnx fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Oct 25, 2009 |
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Wandering Knitter posted:Oh. That's a pity. Count me in, now, anyway - I've cleared the first round of custom orders and my second round has no time frame, so I can easily put them aside for a couple of weeks if there's a Christmas rush. I just listed these cute little brooches, too:  Now available at http://www.seawood.etsy.com - treat your mum!
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xdrquinnx posted:My fiancee and I just opened an Etsy shop this week. It's mostly jewellery (rings and necklaces) but there are a couple 'other' things like a snazzy jewelry rack (my design) and some fancy pet-bowl holders. A link to your shop would be helpful.
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GoreJess posted:A link to your shop would be helpful.  Yeah, that would have been wise. Thanks for pointing that out. http://weaselfactory.etsy.com
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No problem. Any chance that you'd be able to make a dog necklace in the shape of a scottie? I would love to show off my crazy dog lady status.
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Hey etsy goons! Droppin' by to shamelessly self myself and mention that I've been adding new stock to my shop the last couple days, of all sorts: mittens, needle/pencil organizers, stuffed stegasauri... http://algernonrex.etsy.com Check it out! (More stuff going up everyday)
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