hey everyone! I’m going to be closing my shop from april 11th to april 18th in solidarity with other etsy sellers to protest etsy’s latest seller fee price hike and certain new policies you can read about below! you know I’m always complaining about their fees and how I prefer to be paid outside of etsy whenever possible. I hope you’ll join me and not cross the picket line from april 11th to april 18th! you know where to find me if there’s anything I have listed that you want to buy or you have an idea for a commission!
“Etsy made bank over the pandemic. In 2020, they more than doubled their gross marketplace sales. In 2021, they kept those pandemic sales gains and broke their 2020 record by $3.2 billion dollars.
“On April 11, 2022, they plan to increase our transaction fees by 30%.
“Etsy’s last fee increase was in July 2018. If this new one goes through, our basic fees to use the platform will have more than doubled in less than four years. These basic fees do not include additional fees for Offsite ads - which started during the first wave of the pandemic.
“Etsy was founded with a vision of ‘keeping commerce human’ by ‘democratizing access to entrepreneurship.’ As a result, people who have been marginalized in traditional retail economies – women, people of color, LGBTQ people, neurodivergent people, etc. – make up a significant proportion of Etsy’s sellers. For many of us, Etsy makes up our main source of income.”
*Alot of disabled people sell - and buy - on Etsy too. Etsy has basically looked at their majority-minority sellers and gone “How much can I screw these people over?”
I put together an infographic on the Etsy Strike that is currently happening. I’ve been an Etsy seller since 2016, and the changes to the platform over the past 4 years were to let its shareholders profit while sellers had to compete with increasing fees, stricter rules and more and more competition against Aliexpress resellers. Please reblog to spread awareness, thank you.
