I specifically went searching for videos like this. I was like “ it can’t just be me since the search engine change”. I went from 5-12 sales minimum a week. Now, I nearly make one. My views per day is at 19! I haven’t seen that since I first opened my shopped. I had 40 views minimum per day. Etsy keeps messing with their sellers. Thank you for making this video. I live in the states by the way. ❤
I am looking for videos here who share sales losses. I noticed a drop first in July, then August was less, September even less, October is a complete disappointment, usually these months in my niche loud in the year, but not this one, my sales dropped 50% compared to previous years. Star Seller, free shipping, no comments on visibility, visits dropped, sales dropped. Feeling like the platform has become uninteresting to buyers
I have theories. It is possible that the economy is slowing down. Many US stores are closing like in the hundreds of thousands. Something happened to Etsy strategy. To me it looks like Etsy deliverately slowed down the sales, the reason is Etsy will tell store owners in order to go back to good sales and profits, Etsy will ask jump start fees. The investors are demanding more profits and faster, the only place they can get is from store owners.
The issue is they should of just made a recommendation to change shipping, not bullying sellers in doing so. I hope another platform comes out soon, so we do not have to be forced to use ETSY! At this rate you better off paying for your own website instead of making ETSY more money with all their fees.
My sales have practically stopped on October 1st, going from solid 12-15 a day plunging to random 1-2 here and there. I think it has little to do with Etsy but mostly with our economy and election that is coming. I still have tones of views and visits, but people are just not buying
Yeah, I don't know what they did, but my sales just died. I don't even understand the free shipping push. They took a cut of the shipping price with the item price, so I don't think it would impact them. There are legitimate reasons not to offer free shipping, and it can actually be cheaper for the consumer.
Day 7 without ANY sales, I've got Etsy for 10 years and it never ever takes so long. Year after year it getting worse (from +100 orders per month in beautiful years 2015-18 to 30 orders - if I'm lucky - now) but I don't remember time when few days in a row shop was completly DEAD.
45% down in traffic and sales. Fully optimised shop and 5 star seller. I will be lucky to have one favourited listing a day let alone a sale now. This year has been horrific since the start of gift mode back in march/april. Things slightly picked up from then but droppped down in June then slighly up until late September and its crikets. Lost all my bestseller badges, looks like no one can find me like they used to. I think i saw someone say there was 2 or 3 algorithm changes this year. Getting clobbered by all this and it hurts. Why do Etsy do this to only harm themselves in the process? They are not making any money off me and many others right now, ugh 😢
@@TinybirdPauline I forgot about the gift guide thing but yes that did have an impact for a while but I did recover from that. Fingers crossed for a speedy u turn from Etsy 🤞
What other selling sites do people recumend? i make my own products and am new to everything, my sales were just starting to go well but this month nothing!
