As of December 31, 2009 I will no longer be selling on a regular basis at Etsy or Ebay. Here is why .... the past 6 sales or should I say non sales is the reason. I'm just going to give you a few things that has happened. On Ebay after my auction ends I get e mails ..... "your item did not sell will you take x amount for it" Nope! Etsy the past 5 sales I have made through them I have never been paid for. So I have to email and re email only to find out that they are not going to answer, and I am wasting my time. Which is one thing I cannot afford to do. So now it is up to me to either contact Etsy and get my listing fee back and sale charges off, or do I leave them and leave negative feedback so other sellers can see what has happened to me? More trouble in these times than I want to think about! And I understand ... really I do. My prices are fair enough ... at least I think they are. If you want something contact me ...we can work out a payment or layaway ... but no they don't. So until things change (economically) I will resist selling on those sites.
So I invite you to my selling blog ...take a look and tell me your thoughts! Just click on the link to the right. I will still have this blog ... Thanks!
**** Note **** I have let Etsy know as well as Ebay .... It has also happened on Artfire, my one and only sale was a dead beat. I have done everything right .... I am truly happy for those of you who have not had to go through this and hope that you never will. I cannot stop it from happening. So I can only control what I do. And I feel this is the right thing to do for me.
