Questions re: etsy sales & feedbacks

[Iweirdo]

Originally Posted by big tymer

Etsy is filled with Etsy-Nazis, people who spend all their time complaining and reporting other shops while complaining their shops get no sales.

YEah, why don't people just peacefully learn from successful stores----->> find way to improve their own shops. And instead of reporting/leaving bad feedbacks for others, why don't just ⊗⊗⊗⊗ your own good feedbacks? It's cheaper.
I think, unless you are an outside company or friends with admins, it will take lots of reports for et.sy to take action. I had 2 other sellers (one USA, the other from EU) reported me. They e-mailed me to notify me that they reported my shop for using their pictures. But the photos are actually generic demonstrations from chinese craft suppliers with chinese model. Nothing happened to me after that. Until an EU company came in and wiped all of us out. It was weird that only the sellers from Asia survived. I have learned to how to "mask" from them

[Iweirdo]

Originally Posted by GreenBean

Going to be a BIG IF with the MO you are talking about using.

I'm aware of that IF. Just really hope the new products will work for me by adding more variations + better return policies. Or do you mean about the "IF" about the old banned merchandise?

[Iweirdo]

Originally Posted by big tymer

I would go ahead and list as many of your items as you can. what I am saying is after a few initial feedbacks sales pick up dramatically. the thing with Etsy is you really have to list a boat load of items to be found especially if you are selling in a competitive niche. I had a new shop and no sales for the first week or so, after I got a few feedbacks, even one 1 star feedback, sales started to become consistent.

The ⊗⊗⊗⊗ feedback works, I got some more sales now, not much because of all existing shops. But it's a fairly good start

[Iweirdo]

Originally Posted by ovidiu

Another ridiculous thing with etsy is the way their search works, if you don't keep listing at least every week, you will get booted to the back of the search results and have no sales. So list every couple days at least.

Yup, this strategy works great. I have been adding alot lately & more sales came in,. Not much but it's getting better

[novemberrain1970]

Yes, they want that .20 per item listing fee. Badly.

[big tymer]

Originally Posted by novemberrain1970

Yes, they want that .20 per item listing fee. Badly.

But at least they haven't raised that and the final value fees over the years. Whereas it seems every year fleabay keeps raising fees.

[novemberrain1970]

Originally Posted by big tymer

But at least they haven't raised that and the final value fees over the years. Whereas it seems every year fleabay keeps raising fees.

True story!