Not much really. I do not think I want to work my arse off to make money for Etsy any longer. I did enjoy making and working with graphics again. I used to do that for a living but hey, I'm retired. I opened my Etsy shop in late April and it did not make any money for me. The trickle of revenue that came was all eaten up by Etsy fees.
So as it turned out, I made Etsy some money but I decided to let it go after four months of still being in the red. I'm not going to feed it any more so Etsy can reap all the profits in fees. Lesson learned. It was a hobby anyway and I can't afford to give money away to Etsy so I've decided to let the listings expire instead of renewing them, starting August 27th and then over a month or two they will all trickle out.
I will leave the files up for those that did purchase them so they can download them again when needed but NAH! I don't want to work for Etsy for free. I'll probably list some of the graphics for free on Thistles and Twiggs eventually for my friends to enjoy.
I think at one time Etsy was probably a good venue with low fees and some people probably made a good bit of money with it but I don't think that's the case any more. There are fees for every little thing you put on there and you really have to sell a lot of volume to make any profit at all. Not for me and I won't do that again. Like I said, I didn't make any profit in four months and it actually cost me over all. I still have a negative balance on the balance sheet but I can eat that as a lesson learned.
Now back to doing what I really like and sharing it for free! I will leave Thistles and Twiggs up because I did have a few good tutorials on it that might be useful and who knows, I might want to dabble in the graphic arena again from time to time.
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