We have to fight this fee increase.
There’s an amazingly informative article by CindyLouWho2 making the rounds right now. If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend giving it a read. Some information inside it really struck me hard.
Etsy has more than doubled transaction fees on most orders in less than 4 years, since the transaction fee didn’t apply to shipping costs before the middle of 2018.
CindyLouWho2 blog, 2022
That is a rather demoralizing statistic, but I was curious if it was accurate for my shop. Cindy bases her math on a $25 item with $5 shipping. That’s actually really cheap for a handmade item. I’ve found that in my own shop, on small items like that, the customer service and packing/shipping/photography/listing take so long, that for a $25 item, the time required to make it should be only about 15 minutes. Most of my items cost more than that. Also, as Cindy states, she didn’t add in the listing fees. I was curious what happens if you add a single .20 listing fee (assuming it’s an item that typically sells before it expires) into the math.
I based the shipping cost on what I’ve found to be the average for my shop at different price points. Of course it’s added to the price of my items these days - but I didn’t always, and it doesn’t change the math since the shipping is simply added onto the item total now. So here it is:
If your items cost between $30-$100, and they typically sell before they expire, then yes, Etsy is taking more than double from you in fees.
And of course, it’s worth mentioning that does not include offsite ads. An additional 12% fee that you can’t opt out of.
This is getting out of control.
