Confused and paranoid
Ok I have been planning to open an Etsy store for over a year now, but not until this April. Last year I opened a store in my partners name as we were going to run it together, but soon after opening it, I realised the shop would be his only if we were to ever encounter a relationship break up.
So since then, I planned to open my own Etsy shop this year. The shop in his name is jewellery and gifts asembled with charms and hand stamped parts.
My own new shop will be.. take a guess .. jewellery and gifts assembled with charms but my shop will not include any hand stamping (I'm not much good at it anyway).
My fear is that these shops will be seen as multiple shops as they will both be selling charm jewellery with initial discs (in his it is a hand stamped disc and in mine it will be a disc I buy as charms already stamped)
We both live at different addresses and I planned to use a separate IP address in form of a dongle as I already figured that if either of us got in trouble, we would both get closed. But I am also worried that the shops could be seen as multiple shops when they will in fact be technically different products with different branding.
I realised last night that I had opened a shop previously but I never actually sold anything (totally unrelated) and I have closed this down, however the username remains along with the credit card shipping address which I also deleted.. so then I got paranoid that Etsy would link this credit card shipping address along with the IP address of my partners shops as I have logged in using the same IPs.. so therefore my new IP address I intend to use with dongle with my new shop in April will get linked together as the credit card shipping address will be the same.
Argh.. I feel like I'm going mad with all this, when simply I just want to open a shop which initially was my idea with my own products. I would not consider sharing an Etsy account with a partner in case the relationship broke down.
Sorry this has been long winded, but the paranoia and complication of it is driving my crazy, when I just want everything to be above board!
Thanks for reading, and sorry it has been a long one!
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