Artisans Cooperative: An Etsy alternative, owned and run by artists and makers - eviltoast
We have all experienced it: Some organization or service starts out good — or great, even — and then as time goes on, either costs and fees go up, or

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!

  • Squeak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Looking into it; depending on how much time you contribute, you apparently would share in the profit of the store.

      It also appears to be taking steps to prevent drop shippers from plaguing the platform like Etsy suffers from, and ensure everything is actually handmade. Personally I like what they’re going for, but I’m not a seller.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.