Well After my last blog I was wandering over to etsy to list a few things and then decided to check the forums/Community first. Wow its already started!
The fights over the relevancy over recency. The Its good for me , not good for me debate. And Finally the name calling and general ugliness that I’d never experienced before on etsy.
Crappy sellers , Big sellers, Great Sellers, God Like sellers, Hobbyists and a bunch of other random names and debates as this wonderful “change” works its way thru etsy and changes the goodwill between sellers into fighting and name calling in the forums.
Only good thing is that after a few pages of general ugliness everyone started getting back to what etsy was really about and started working it out and apologizing for mis-understandings. How long that will last as all this plays out remains to be seen. Things got ugly real fast on that other site that changed everything and never came back as a community site .
Anyways Sorry to see it going down this way but its not a big surprise. Etsy the site is happy to report its sales are up and thus their profits. I’m unhappy to report the general good spirit of the sellers is down. In the business world though I guess what really matters is that profit wins hand down over every other consideration and etsy it seems is on a winning streak.
As for me I’m going to take a break from etsy and all the drama and wander over to my web site and list over there a bit. Slower sales but no drama.
Best,
Sandy Past Times Vintage
