I have over 40,000 sales on Etsy and am in the same boat as that guy. None of my best sellers are selling. I am getting a trickle of sales but mostly return customers. I am down 75% comparing last Oct to Nov 4th. Your ad theory helped me to calm down last week. Thank you.
People don't like the Etsy search telling them what they want vs. the old more precise search. People are leaving Etsy when they can't find what they want... because a stupid AI tells them they want something other than what they type in the search.
Last October I had 2,000+ sales and it's WAAAY down this year. However, In the US I think the commonality is also during election seasons. I am willing to bet sales will start to increase after this week. Fingers crossed!
Etsy's the problem with what's going on! They need to remove Joshy before it gets any worse. He has a history of messing up companies and then leaving. So my sales this year have been a major challenge... in due to random times my listings aren't shown in search and falling victim to Etsy glitches. At the very end of May, somehow my handmade shop was flagged as non handmade, and then they couldn't figure out the city I lived in was in the US (they thought South Dakota was somewhere in Asia?!), finally they told me I sold a restricted product (cat toys... oh PLEASE!). It took me 30 days of calling & tweeting Etsy to get my shop back to normal status. I'm doing everything I can think of to make this a record holiday season (including advertising outside of Etsy)... but that's all going to depend if I'm going to be shown in search or not! The majority of those listings are going to new shops and shops with less than 1k sales. I'm 18.5k with a 2013 shop, so I am definitely not on their love list anymore. 😞
Over 10,000 sales over 2 years and similar to the above, my best sellers have stopped. October and so far November have been abysmal. Etsy keep telling me everything is fine in my shop but isn't. Today is a prime example, last year 40 sales. Today 2.... To note, I am in the UK so is tough to pin it on the election.
I totally agree and until a new president has been elected people are nervous. I think about spending money. I can’t put food on their table. How can they be buying stuff from Etsy shop? We’ll see after Tuesday
I don't think it is. I'm a mail carrier, I work alongside UPS, Amazon and FedEx who run the same route as I do. We have all been on overtime because the amount of packages has begun to soar already since around 3 weeks ago. So I don't think it is economy.
I have been on Etsy for 12.5 years.... 171,000 + sales. 4th quarter historically makes up a huge part of my annual income. This year. Not a fat frickin chance. Extremely disheartening
I also noticed that the person with the most purchased ad is the front page instead of shopping for a whimsical home made craft one off. It feels like an overpriced amazon now
Conversion link please. I’m an Australian seller, so can’t blame an election for the sudden drying up of sales. I’m lucky that I make beaded jewellery and sell it on Etsy as a hobby- I don’t rely on it for my income. But I’m feeling so disheartened. I’ve poured my heart and soul into my little Etsy business. I have wonderful feedback from my customers and my store has grown organically over the last couple of years. I’ve followed all of your advice. I’ve reviewed my listings and updated them, taken new photos, run sales and worked on sending traffic via social media. I’ve increased my ad budget. All to no avail. I really do appreciate your videos and I’m hoping that as a result of your influence (and that of others who really understand how Etsy works- if that’s possible) that Etsy will get the message and fix it.
I'm a brand new shop starting June. Even as a new shop I was able to make a few sales in the first months, getting daily views and visits, favorites...I was hoping for a Q 4. And after Oct 1st, my views and visits fall of a cliff. No favorites, obviously no sales. As a new Etsy seller, I might still be on a learning curve, but after listening and reading comments from established shops, I wonder if I will ever be able to sell on Etsy.
I’ve been on Etsy for 15 yrs. Usually a couple of hundred viewers looking about a 1000 items. I keep about 300 listings. Since the 1st of October I am getting maybe 15-25 viewers daily. Most of my buyers are returning customers. Almost no new buyers this year. Etsy’s changes should not be so devastating to any one shop. Yes, Etsy is hurting, but certainly many shops are doing quite well. If everyone was doing poorly, they would shut down. I just think it’s incompetence on the part of those they employ.
Yep, same here! I've been on Etsy for 7 yrs with over 13k sales. These last 30 days YOY I'm down 57% on visits, 62% on orders, 57% on revenue. Should be so busy in lead up to Xmas by now. So worrying!
My friend has been able to keep an income and sustain it for 11 years without working outside her home due to her etsy shop. She has a true handmade shop. Now, it's so down that she is looking for a job.
Thank you for this. I really appreciate this video encouraging people to get into the driver seat and ask themselves great questions. I am BRAND NEW to etsy but celebrating 20yrs as an ecommerce seller (two different businesses). This week AND election day has been plenty busy in our ecommerce store, but we are never passive. We are asking ourselves what we can offer people that will uplift them now...what do they need to see to help them smile, relax and shop. Its been very intense leading up to the election -- and it can be helpful to put ourselves in our customer's shoes vs. just our own...and to be creative in our approach, promotions, etc. Keep up the great work guys, you are appreciated!
I really appreciate that you are covering this topic. Other Etsy influencers aren't talking about it and I really need to hear that this is not normal. I started in February of this year, and I have worked so hard on my shop with my eye always on Q4. I had a tremendous July, Aug, and September with each month just growing but in October and now early Nov, it's crickets. This was not how I thought Q4 would go. So disheartening.
Sales were down entire October, but Yesterday 11/3 for some reason sales spiked like crazy for me. Hopefully it continues through out the week. I went from 1-2 sales a day to 7 yesterday all different items.
My conversion rate has been steady, it's the traffic drop that is crushing me. I also run Etsy ads and the traffic was affected there as well. Enough so that they reduced my max budget amount.
My sales have dried up too. I'm in the UK and every item I make is a hand-made one-off so I don't expect masses of sales, but I've always has a steady stream over the years
One primary customer on etsy is other sellers. Given how many people have been suspended for no apparent reason and had immediate denials of their appeal, and that you can no longer buy once suspended, I can't help but wonder how much of the traffic drop is due to that loss.
I was suspended from Etsy (long story). However, the fact they won't even let you buy is beyond stupid. There are many things I would have bought on Etsy but I can't now. It's the worst policy ever. There was no dishonesty on my part, it was a business partner running one of my Etsy stores and he had some celebrities on stickers and here we are. I am sorry I can't buy from you Etsy sellers any more and I'm just one, there are so many more.
Has anyone else noticed that the tags you have on product listings are not showing on the front end? It seems.there may be a glitch in Etsy, and it is showing random weird tags on my products.
Omg. This has been the way for all of my listings since July. I have emailed them about 30 times over the past few months. Two responses. One was to clear my cache. The second response was to delete my tags and renter them. Neither worked. What I found was when I created a new listing my tags would show for about a week and then change to absurd irrelevant tags. I mean I had a sapphire gold filled bracelet- they replaced my tags with everything but ‘Sapphire’ and ‘bracelet’ instead replaced with misspelled words like ‘Safire’, and instead of my shop name, which I use as a tag- they replaced with other sellers shop names. I have been beside myself. A 15 year small seller, my income dropped about 70% in July and almost 90% in Oct. prior to that I was grossing 4-9 thousand a month every month for 15 years. I googled and could find no one with my problem so I was amazed to see you mention this.
yup. Fulltime EU seller. 4 last christmasses I had order piled up to the ceiling of our workshop. like 50 orders a day... Now last weekend...5 orders...Still sales, but like a couple a day max. I'm actually bored... I produce like 2h a day and I'm on top of my orders.
It's not only them, it's MANY Etsy sellers, including me. For a month, I had maybe 2 sales a week (usually 2/day). Then one week, something was "turned on" and I had sales like normal. The next week, and since then, it's been crickets again.
Same pattern for me, it’s feast or famine. What good is it to get a home sales on one day and then no sales on any other days at all averages out to a very small amount of sales of one to two sales a day that’s about all I can make I’m not.A print on demand shop
All of your recent videos have convinced me that Etsy is not for me. I am so happy that I already have an established website and email list. I was cross posting to different markets and Etsy is not worth it. And yes, I have older history (and sales) with Etsy a few years ago.
since 1 October sales have been abysmal. I have 8K plus sales and October is usually the start of Xmas - now it's practically zero I'm in the UK, have bestsellers (had) too.
Who here has a niche shop only? I have about five different niches in one shop. My philosophy is that people like to go to a shop like they would go to say Macy’s or target or something like that so they don’t have to keep leaving the store and going somewhere else this way, I have stuff that they can look around for if they have a baby if they’re going on a cruise if they’re trying to give someone a gift for a woman or a baby gift or a toddler or young girl it’s not just all one department who else is like this
Hi - can someone help - I downloaded this email booklet which is mentioned. I then started creating my email with everbee but the realised that everbee do NOT email your etsy buyers directly with your landing page asking them to subscribe to mailing list as now etsy do not allow. So please someone explain how do get the first email to your etsy buyers automatically once they purchase from yoy - or do you have to manually email each person as etsy do not allow third parties to do!!
Mine stopped over night in February which is normally good. Then another sharp drop soon as gift mode introduced. A lot used to buy vintage goods from shop. Massive drop this year. Only shops doing well are Etsy pic shops. Most are my repeat customers few new ones. All the changes are not doing platform much good too many changes. Some good changes though too.
I have had the same situation. This is normally my busiest time of the year and in past years I have done so many that I had to pause my shop. It's zero now in spite of the ads! What is going on?
I knew that things are slower on October but I did not realize it was so bad for some of the sellers. For me it has been 3 days without a sale and only two emails which is shocking for me. Not mention I just increased my Etsy ads budget and created a 20% off sale which I have never done it before.
October was abnormally slow for me. Had to run 20% off sales everyday to get by. This past week, though I had my best selling week of all time in over 7 years….. I’ll take it!
I’m seeing a significant drop in traffic and sales year over year noticeably since the October algorithm update. ( about 40% drop) I’ve had an etsy shop since 2010 so I’ve seen and been through everything. I have over 14,000 sales. Even prior to Oct my views have been down. Most of what I sell is evergreen. I’m hesitant to change a bunch of seo stuff because I feel like everyone I talk to is down in traffic and I’m hoping they adjust it next quarter. I’m just disappointed this is my busiest time of the year historically and I feel like they just picked a crappy time to change things. I’m messing with my etsy ads and trying different times of the day to push ads. I’m also trying to just keep listing new items with different tags from what I typically use which seems to help. I did notice a little pick up after the election. Doing like you said and trying to control what I can. I sell a mix of one of a kind items vintage items, handmade and supplies.
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Mine was starting last month 85 percent down und normally i got a lot of sale end of the month until first week of the month but but october end nothing and this month only one sale. I hope it gets better.
I have over 23,000 sales and the last three months I’ve noticed an extreme drop in sales, best sellers have dropped off, Etsy picks have dropped and yet all of my listings are optimized. Hoping to glean something from this video.
Large shops may have to move to Amazon or Walmart. Etsy has seen many shoppers click away based on lack of variety and originality. They must have numbers telling them that they make more money from many small shops rather than a few large ones. If it is feasible I would try a test. Open a new shop. Remove a few of your best sellers from your existing shop and move them to the new shop.
My shop had 7k reviews and almost 25k sales, but Etsy suspended the account without giving me a valid reason. OFC has no phone supplier and does not have chat support. Can you offer any advice? Thank you!!
I'm in the same boat. I am so confused. I am down year over year after having my sales up over 20% this year. November is my busiest time. I have over 33K sales.
I have 5 Shops, 1 hand made 4 digital all of them are down 75%. My SEO and images at all good, Etsy ads are also not going through my budget like before
Definitely seeing a big decline in Etsy from our shop that has over 9,000 sales. Haven't been able to figure out what to do correctly to change the direction of sales over the past few years of declining sales.
I have 18k sales (opened 2020). I've just shut down the POD shop and am reinvesting my time into an entirely new business for this exact reason: plummeting sales. I'm tired of the continued bungling on Etsy's part. Cutting the chord.
After the shipping change my sweatshirt prices were all updated from $25 to $47 automatically, so double check on your prices if any changes were made.
Only you can change the prices on your items if you did something to your shipping like now you’re are offering free shipping or free shipping on 35+ a box automatically came up that said do you want to increase the prices of your items to cover shipping so you would’ve had to select that and then Etsy would automatically up the prices of everything Etsy does not automatically change your prices and Etsy changed their prices
in 2022 I was ready to leave my day job, because I was having stable £600-£800 average a month, which was equivalent of the part time job at the time. But I thought it would be better to grow bit more and give it more time. Now in 2024, I was thinking of shutting down my store so many times, because I barely sratch £150 a month with averaging 8-10 sales max. This would have normally been my most busy season already, with November December £1200 in average, yet no sales are coming in. I keep blaming myself, that I am not putting enough effort and time, yet I actually post more then ever, I pay for Google Ads, Etsy Ads, Instagram Ads yet I am on a brink of closing shop down I worked on for 5 years.
I have mare than 2000 sales. I make and sell large items such as benches and hanging wall plate racks. I usually have 10 orders in the works. I have gone more than a week without a sale and the views are way off too.
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Who cares about “rights” you have the right to email, every customer has their email and there are tools to mass collect.. if you are self regulating because your scared the inrernet police are gonna come after then that’s your own insecurity holding you back
Not just America, I'm in UK, my constant busy shop has slowed down to a trickle, I should be working hard now to get orders out for Xmas, I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting for orders, I'm now working on a gift based shop to open in 2025 even though I'm a greeting card shop it's very quiet
One more thing. I find it suspect that Etsy would change up the algorithm at the start of the holiday shopping season. These three months make or break many businesses.
Etsy keeps tinkering and they make things worse. The natural flow of things doesn't change on a dime. If this person went from 19,000 to zero, something 'unnatural' has happened. Let add this example to the barn full I have already to drop Etsy and get a real sales platform.
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Here’s what infuriates me; hundreds of shops from India and China selling comparable items for less than $10.00 with free shipping!!! And these items are of questionable quality. These “handmade goods” are made in factories employing possibly hundreds of people. This is not fair to those of us truly making handmade unique items. Very frustrating.
Here's a warning to anyone opening an account with etsy. I'm in the UK and opened a shop a few months ago and was shocked to see they charged my £22 to join and the very next day permanently closed my account just because I changed my shop owner name to Admin. How is it even legal to do this? I did put in a request but we all know etsy policy on this..... no reply at all so Silverman is now lining his big pockets taking your entry Fee then letting an algorithm boot you out. He should be ashamed of himself.
I'm disgusted with Etsy doing nothing about shops who violate THEIR terms because they are making thousand daily. Shops that sell Disney, Nike, etc. It's wrong.
Looking at the comments so many sellers seem to be in the same boat with the Etsy circus. Certainly makes me distrust the platform moving forwards as not being reliable for stability long term despite best efforts to drive traffic etc that simply doesn’t convert
My sales have been up consistently this whole year. I am handmade, not POD, and have had my shop for 10+ years. After the Etsy update sales have gone up even more. I'm 143% YOY, 384% this month November, and rising each day. I've noticed a dramatic increase of Etsy Offsite Ads since the update; like every other sale. Not sure if handmade vs POD plays a role in this or not.
Yes. My revenue is down 63% from this week last year. I had only a couple orders last week. Views/visits are fairly normal, but sales are down. I do notice the same pattern every election year, however. I expect this week will also be slow. Not to make it political, but after the 2016 Trump victory, my sales spiked pretty hard, but after the Biden victory they lessened considerably, worsening every Q4. It could be that people are waiting it out to see which way the wind will blow.
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UK here, over 7K sales, 5 1/2 yr old shop. Star Seller, Oct-Dec my key selling time. Totally dropped in October, the last week 64% down on last year. I am normally really busy at this time. I'm having to think about looking for another job come January if this doesn't pick up soon, I'm devasted, put so much in to my small business :-(
Australia here. Same. Nearly 9000 sales. Down massively compared to this time last year. I’ve also noticed that activity on my shop is happening overnight, so it looks like my search visibility is happening when my customers are asleep!Sadly, job hunting might be on my New Year’s resolution list, too. 😕
I think (if I had to guess a number) maybe 60% of all ads that would normally be Etsy or other platform ads have been replaced with election ads, lets see how it changes after the election. I have not dropped like others however I do a lot of work on social media and advertising. My numbers are WAYYYY up since last year but I have been increasing steady all year. Last year (for my early shop) wasn't much to compare to.
I have over 40,000 sales on Etsy and am in the same boat as that guy. None of my best sellers are selling. I am getting a trickle of sales but mostly return customers. I am down 75% comparing last Oct to Nov 4th. Your ad theory helped me to calm down last week. Thank you.
Maybe Etsy sales are down because people are reading up about Etsy on Trust Pilot, their rating is far worst than Red Bubble's
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People don't like the Etsy search telling them what they want vs. the old more precise search. People are leaving Etsy when they can't find what they want... because a stupid AI tells them they want something other than what they type in the search.
Yep
pinterest did this also and they went from good to boring
Last October I had 2,000+ sales and it's WAAAY down this year. However, In the US I think the commonality is also during election seasons. I am willing to bet sales will start to increase after this week. Fingers crossed!
I think it's time to do a video saying forget about Etsy.There's no chance of making any sales anymore.That's what the next video needs to be
Why?
Same here too. 75% down. I have been with Etsy 10 years. Never down this much.
Etsy's the problem with what's going on! They need to remove Joshy before it gets any worse. He has a history of messing up companies and then leaving. So my sales this year have been a major challenge... in due to random times my listings aren't shown in search and falling victim to Etsy glitches. At the very end of May, somehow my handmade shop was flagged as non handmade, and then they couldn't figure out the city I lived in was in the US (they thought South Dakota was somewhere in Asia?!), finally they told me I sold a restricted product (cat toys... oh PLEASE!). It took me 30 days of calling & tweeting Etsy to get my shop back to normal status. I'm doing everything I can think of to make this a record holiday season (including advertising outside of Etsy)... but that's all going to depend if I'm going to be shown in search or not! The majority of those listings are going to new shops and shops with less than 1k sales. I'm 18.5k with a 2013 shop, so I am definitely not on their love list anymore. 😞
Over 10,000 sales over 2 years and similar to the above, my best sellers have stopped. October and so far November have been abysmal. Etsy keep telling me everything is fine in my shop but isn't. Today is a prime example, last year 40 sales. Today 2....
To note, I am in the UK so is tough to pin it on the election.
SAME! Etsy is my only income right now. Can't even feed my kids.
Maybe it's time to admit this is the economy...even local exhibition/sales are down on people attending and spending
I totally agree and until a new president has been elected people are nervous. I think about spending money. I can’t put food on their table. How can they be buying stuff from Etsy shop? We’ll see after Tuesday
I don't think it is. I'm a mail carrier, I work alongside UPS, Amazon and FedEx who run the same route as I do. We have all been on overtime because the amount of packages has begun to soar already since around 3 weeks ago. So I don't think it is economy.
I have been on Etsy for 12.5 years.... 171,000 + sales. 4th quarter historically makes up a huge part of my annual income. This year. Not a fat frickin chance. Extremely disheartening
I also noticed that the person with the most purchased ad is the front page instead of shopping for a whimsical home made craft one off. It feels like an overpriced amazon now
Conversion link please. I’m an Australian seller, so can’t blame an election for the sudden drying up of sales. I’m lucky that I make beaded jewellery and sell it on Etsy as a hobby- I don’t rely on it for my income. But I’m feeling so disheartened. I’ve poured my heart and soul into my little Etsy business. I have wonderful feedback from my customers and my store has grown organically over the last couple of years. I’ve followed all of your advice. I’ve reviewed my listings and updated them, taken new photos, run sales and worked on sending traffic via social media. I’ve increased my ad budget. All to no avail. I really do appreciate your videos and I’m hoping that as a result of your influence (and that of others who really understand how Etsy works- if that’s possible) that Etsy will get the message and fix it.
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I searched for a shirt I made, typed in every single word and it did not come up. ETSY is over.
I'm a brand new shop starting June. Even as a new shop I was able to make a few sales in the first months, getting daily views and visits, favorites...I was hoping for a Q 4. And after Oct 1st, my views and visits fall of a cliff. No favorites, obviously no sales. As a new Etsy seller, I might still be on a learning curve, but after listening and reading comments from established shops, I wonder if I will ever be able to sell on Etsy.
I’ve been on Etsy for 15 yrs. Usually a couple of hundred viewers looking about a 1000 items. I keep about 300 listings. Since the 1st of October I am getting maybe 15-25 viewers daily. Most of my buyers are returning customers. Almost no new buyers this year. Etsy’s changes should not be so devastating to any one shop. Yes, Etsy is hurting, but certainly many shops are doing quite well. If everyone was doing poorly, they would shut down. I just think it’s incompetence on the part of those they employ.
Yep, same here! I've been on Etsy for 7 yrs with over 13k sales. These last 30 days YOY I'm down 57% on visits, 62% on orders, 57% on revenue. Should be so busy in lead up to Xmas by now. So worrying!
I have two Etsy stores, my sales for bot have dropped by 75% this year. I don’t know why😢
How do you know if another shop's product is converting higher than mine?
My friend has been able to keep an income and sustain it for 11 years without working outside her home due to her etsy shop. She has a true handmade shop. Now, it's so down that she is looking for a job.
Thank you for this. I really appreciate this video encouraging people to get into the driver seat and ask themselves great questions. I am BRAND NEW to etsy but celebrating 20yrs as an ecommerce seller (two different businesses). This week AND election day has been plenty busy in our ecommerce store, but we are never passive. We are asking ourselves what we can offer people that will uplift them now...what do they need to see to help them smile, relax and shop. Its been very intense leading up to the election -- and it can be helpful to put ourselves in our customer's shoes vs. just our own...and to be creative in our approach, promotions, etc. Keep up the great work guys, you are appreciated!
No sales in the last month. Not one. And barely any traffic.
I really appreciate that you are covering this topic. Other Etsy influencers aren't talking about it and I really need to hear that this is not normal. I started in February of this year, and I have worked so hard on my shop with my eye always on Q4. I had a tremendous July, Aug, and September with each month just growing but in October and now early Nov, it's crickets. This was not how I thought Q4 would go. So disheartening.
Come to think of it my sales ARE down. Last year I had to repeatedly go into vacation mode because I got too busy, this year not so much.
This was very validating! I'm down 71% yoy. Even my best sellers came to a screeching hault recently and wondered wtf is going on!!!
Sales were down entire October, but Yesterday 11/3 for some reason sales spiked like crazy for me. Hopefully it continues through out the week. I went from 1-2 sales a day to 7 yesterday all different items.
But that’s just a one day thing before you can call it a new trend. It’s got a continue to do that for weeks.
@@sassy81852 yup, was just a one day thing :(
Same with me, exactly 11/3, in one day, I had almost half of the sales of the whole october.
What u selling xd
@@iskrazpolski1715 I sell apparel for car enthusiasts and car lifestyle
My conversion rate has been steady, it's the traffic drop that is crushing me. I also run Etsy ads and the traffic was affected there as well. Enough so that they reduced my max budget amount.
My sales have dried up too. I'm in the UK and every item I make is a hand-made one-off so I don't expect masses of sales, but I've always has a steady stream over the years
My friend texted me who has an art Etsy shop and asked me why she’s had zero sales lately. I’ve had an Etsy shop since 2011 and I’m leaving!
Then you will have zero sales
@ Nope. I am switching to Amazon. At least that has the worldwide market and better search engines.
I’ve heard you mention some href app that you’ve pulled data on Etsy. Can you share what particular software or website you’re using please?
do we know if etsy profits are down also? if so, they should want to fix it
One primary customer on etsy is other sellers. Given how many people have been suspended for no apparent reason and had immediate denials of their appeal, and that you can no longer buy once suspended, I can't help but wonder how much of the traffic drop is due to that loss.
I was suspended from Etsy (long story). However, the fact they won't even let you buy is beyond stupid. There are many things I would have bought on Etsy but I can't now. It's the worst policy ever. There was no dishonesty on my part, it was a business partner running one of my Etsy stores and he had some celebrities on stickers and here we are. I am sorry I can't buy from you Etsy sellers any more and I'm just one, there are so many more.
Has anyone else noticed that the tags you have on product listings are not showing on the front end? It seems.there may be a glitch in Etsy, and it is showing random weird tags on my products.
Omg. This has been the way for all of my listings since July. I have emailed them about 30 times over the past few months. Two responses. One was to clear my cache. The second response was to delete my tags and renter them. Neither worked. What I found was when I created a new listing my tags would show for about a week and then change to absurd irrelevant tags. I mean I had a sapphire gold filled bracelet- they replaced my tags with everything but ‘Sapphire’ and ‘bracelet’ instead replaced with misspelled words like ‘Safire’, and instead of my shop name, which I use as a tag- they replaced with other sellers shop names. I have been beside myself. A 15 year small seller, my income dropped about 70% in July and almost 90% in Oct. prior to that I was grossing 4-9 thousand a month every month for 15 years. I googled and could find no one with my problem so I was amazed to see you mention this.
So many peoples shops have flat lined (including mine). This tells me that the customers are GONE and going elsewhere.
yup. Fulltime EU seller. 4 last christmasses I had order piled up to the ceiling of our workshop. like 50 orders a day... Now last weekend...5 orders...Still sales, but like a couple a day max. I'm actually bored... I produce like 2h a day and I'm on top of my orders.
It's not only them, it's MANY Etsy sellers, including me. For a month, I had maybe 2 sales a week (usually 2/day). Then one week, something was "turned on" and I had sales like normal. The next week, and since then, it's been crickets again.
Same pattern for me, it’s feast or famine. What good is it to get a home sales on one day and then no sales on any other days at all averages out to a very small amount of sales of one to two sales a day that’s about all I can make I’m not.A print on demand shop
All of your recent videos have convinced me that Etsy is not for me. I am so happy that I already have an established website and email list. I was cross posting to different markets and Etsy is not worth it. And yes, I have older history (and sales) with Etsy a few years ago.
since 1 October sales have been abysmal. I have 8K plus sales and October is usually the start of Xmas - now it's practically zero I'm in the UK, have bestsellers (had) too.
Who here has a niche shop only? I have about five different niches in one shop. My philosophy is that people like to go to a shop like they would go to say Macy’s or target or something like that so they don’t have to keep leaving the store and going somewhere else this way, I have stuff that they can look around for if they have a baby if they’re going on a cruise if they’re trying to give someone a gift for a woman or a baby gift or a toddler or young girl it’s not just all one department who else is like this
I am a Canadian seller, I am selling physical items (bracelets) and my sells are up!
Hi - can someone help - I downloaded this email booklet which is mentioned. I then started creating my email with everbee but the realised that everbee do NOT email your etsy buyers directly with your landing page asking them to subscribe to mailing list as now etsy do not allow. So please someone explain how do get the first email to your etsy buyers automatically once they purchase from yoy - or do you have to manually email each person as etsy do not allow third parties to do!!
My sales have picked up starting Nov, compared to October so I chalk it up to algorithm changes. Both my new POD shop and my 2 year old shop!
Same. 0 sales on Etsy. Used to getting 2-3 a day. Hoping this changes quickly.
I lost my star seller cause the sale have been so low. I’ve been working on getting my views up and slowly its working - highlight on the slowly…😢
Mine stopped over night in February which is normally good. Then another sharp drop soon as gift mode introduced. A lot used to buy vintage goods from shop. Massive drop this year. Only shops doing well are Etsy pic shops. Most are my repeat customers few new ones. All the changes are not doing platform much good too many changes. Some good changes though too.
Also don’t forget to add that Etsy was using 3 party company to run ads now they do it in-house (to lower the cost)
However this isn’t clearly working
I have had the same situation. This is normally my busiest time of the year and in past years I have done so many that I had to pause my shop. It's zero now in spite of the ads! What is going on?
Same thing going on with me. No sales at the busiest time of the year. Been on etsy in this shop since 2019
I knew that things are slower on October but I did not realize it was so bad for some of the sellers. For me it has been 3 days without a sale and only two emails which is shocking for me. Not mention I just increased my Etsy ads budget and created a 20% off sale which I have never done it before.
October was abnormally slow for me. Had to run 20% off sales everyday to get by. This past week, though I had my best selling week of all time in over 7 years….. I’ll take it!
Super slow, but I a, happy to hear this is turning around for you. Yes, take it! 😊
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I’m seeing a significant drop in traffic and sales year over year noticeably since the October algorithm update. ( about 40% drop) I’ve had an etsy shop since 2010 so I’ve seen and been through everything. I have over 14,000 sales. Even prior to Oct my views have been down. Most of what I sell is evergreen. I’m hesitant to change a bunch of seo stuff because I feel like everyone I talk to is down in traffic and I’m hoping they adjust it next quarter. I’m just disappointed this is my busiest time of the year historically and I feel like they just picked a crappy time to change things. I’m messing with my etsy ads and trying different times of the day to push ads. I’m also trying to just keep listing new items with different tags from what I typically use which seems to help. I did notice a little pick up after the election. Doing like you said and trying to control what I can. I sell a mix of one of a kind items vintage items, handmade and supplies.
email- Would love to know how to put together the list. I can do it manually from orders but I know it is not the proper way. thank you
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I’m brand new and had 30 sales from September and early October. I’ve had one sale the last three weeks
Mine was starting last month 85 percent down und normally i got a lot of sale end of the month until first week of the month but but october end nothing and this month only one sale. I hope it gets better.
I have over 23,000 sales and the last three months I’ve noticed an extreme drop in sales, best sellers have dropped off, Etsy picks have dropped and yet all of my listings are optimized. Hoping to glean something from this video.
Large shops may have to move to Amazon or Walmart. Etsy has seen many shoppers click away based on lack of variety and originality. They must have numbers telling them that they make more money from many small shops rather than a few large ones. If it is feasible I would try a test. Open a new shop. Remove a few of your best sellers from your existing shop and move them to the new shop.
Yes some stores have faster shipping times because wirh yhe new changes a lot of people are reaalling products that are not handmade 🤷
My shop had 7k reviews and almost 25k sales, but Etsy suspended the account without giving me a valid reason. OFC has no phone supplier and does not have chat support. Can you offer any advice?
Thank you!!
Hi! My sales have gone down too like nose dived
It has been a very difficult season since Oct!
I'm in the same boat. I am so confused. I am down year over year after having my sales up over 20% this year. November is my busiest time. I have over 33K sales.
I was used to $1k+ a month, and October sales was $50. WTF!
That you sell.
@ You’re doing fine I see.😂
@@stefanieschmid4669 what product you sell
That’s a big wtf Lol
I have 5 Shops, 1 hand made 4 digital all of them are down 75%. My SEO and images at all good, Etsy ads are also not going through my budget like before
Definitely seeing a big decline in Etsy from our shop that has over 9,000 sales. Haven't been able to figure out what to do correctly to change the direction of sales over the past few years of declining sales.
I have 18k sales (opened 2020). I've just shut down the POD shop and am reinvesting my time into an entirely new business for this exact reason: plummeting sales. I'm tired of the continued bungling on Etsy's part. Cutting the chord.
My visits are way down. Very sad to see.
This doesn’t feel like Q4. Last year, I was beyond busy. Something went wrong in October
Which SEO updates are we talking about? The october visibility parameters. Thats not SEO
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After the shipping change my sweatshirt prices were all updated from $25 to $47 automatically, so double check on your prices if any changes were made.
Only you can change the prices on your items if you did something to your shipping like now you’re are offering free shipping or free shipping on 35+ a box automatically came up that said do you want to increase the prices of your items to cover shipping so you would’ve had to select that and then Etsy would automatically up the prices of everything Etsy does not automatically change your prices and Etsy changed their prices
My sales drastically down and not sure it will back, please etsy do something about it.
in 2022 I was ready to leave my day job, because I was having stable £600-£800 average a month, which was equivalent of the part time job at the time. But I thought it would be better to grow bit more and give it more time. Now in 2024, I was thinking of shutting down my store so many times, because I barely sratch £150 a month with averaging 8-10 sales max. This would have normally been my most busy season already, with November December £1200 in average, yet no sales are coming in. I keep blaming myself, that I am not putting enough effort and time, yet I actually post more then ever, I pay for Google Ads, Etsy Ads, Instagram Ads yet I am on a brink of closing shop down I worked on for 5 years.
I have mare than 2000 sales. I make and sell large items such as benches and hanging wall plate racks. I usually have 10 orders in the works. I have gone more than a week without a sale and the views are way off too.
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If we had to bring traffic and sale , and have to pay for traffic, and charges on that traffic then why Etsy we should move to independent platform
Critical to have the rights to emails
Who cares about “rights” you have the right to email, every customer has their email and there are tools to mass collect.. if you are self regulating because your scared the inrernet police are gonna come after then that’s your own insecurity holding you back
Star seller with over 7,000 sales. This time of year I usually start to average around $1000 a day in revenue. This year I'm struggling to make $100
Not just America, I'm in UK, my constant busy shop has slowed down to a trickle, I should be working hard now to get orders out for Xmas, I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting for orders, I'm now working on a gift based shop to open in 2025 even though I'm a greeting card shop it's very quiet
Since October my ship died. Bad. I have been on Etsy for 2 years
One more thing. I find it suspect that Etsy would change up the algorithm at the start of the holiday shopping season. These three months make or break many businesses.
Etsy keeps tinkering and they make things worse. The natural flow of things doesn't change on a dime. If this person went from 19,000 to zero, something 'unnatural' has happened. Let add this example to the barn full I have already to drop Etsy and get a real sales platform.
Mine also went to zero for consecutive days. This never happens and almost no views. No new customers, only sales to existing customers.
Zip Sales in a long time! 5 Star Seller.
conversion and email. Thank you!
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This is exactly what my situation is too.
I haven't sold anything in about 3 weeks
2024 has been down almost every month this year. I think Etsy peaked in 2022 and has declined after the covid era boost.
Chris deserves to have his face on the channel pics...he's in all the videos🤔
Here’s what infuriates me; hundreds of shops from India and China selling comparable items for less than $10.00 with free shipping!!! And these items are of questionable quality. These “handmade goods” are made in factories employing possibly hundreds of people. This is not fair to those of us truly making handmade unique items. Very frustrating.
Here's a warning to anyone opening an account with etsy. I'm in the UK and opened a shop a few months ago and was shocked to see they charged my £22 to join and the very next day permanently closed my account just because I changed my shop owner name to Admin. How is it even legal to do this? I did put in a request but we all know etsy policy on this..... no reply at all so Silverman is now lining his big pockets taking your entry Fee then letting an algorithm boot you out. He should be ashamed of himself.
I'm disgusted with Etsy doing nothing about shops who violate THEIR terms because they are making thousand daily. Shops that sell Disney, Nike, etc. It's wrong.
Looking at the comments so many sellers seem to be in the same boat with the Etsy circus. Certainly makes me distrust the platform moving forwards as not being reliable for stability long term despite best efforts to drive traffic etc that simply doesn’t convert
Juat keeps getting worse. Etsy is now far down my list of other platforms
Yes. I'm not used to hearing crickets....Been selling on Etsy over 5+ years. I believe it's the elections, algorithm & Etsy's advertising less.
If Etsy cannot generate income to justify its expenses, then it is time for Etsy to change or sellers have to open their own shops outside of Etsy.
My sales have been up consistently this whole year. I am handmade, not POD, and have had my shop for 10+ years. After the Etsy update sales have gone up even more. I'm 143% YOY, 384% this month November, and rising each day. I've noticed a dramatic increase of Etsy Offsite Ads since the update; like every other sale. Not sure if handmade vs POD plays a role in this or not.
Sales suck down 60% nice last year this time.
I have t had sales in almost 11 months
Yes. My revenue is down 63% from this week last year. I had only a couple orders last week. Views/visits are fairly normal, but sales are down. I do notice the same pattern every election year, however. I expect this week will also be slow. Not to make it political, but after the 2016 Trump victory, my sales spiked pretty hard, but after the Biden victory they lessened considerably, worsening every Q4. It could be that people are waiting it out to see which way the wind will blow.
Conversion and email
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UK here, over 7K sales, 5 1/2 yr old shop. Star Seller, Oct-Dec my key selling time. Totally dropped in October, the last week 64% down on last year. I am normally really busy at this time. I'm having to think about looking for another job come January if this doesn't pick up soon, I'm devasted, put so much in to my small business :-(
exactly the same from Belgium here. over 7k sales, selling for the past 6/7 years, star seller...
Australia here. Same. Nearly 9000 sales. Down massively compared to this time last year. I’ve also noticed that activity on my shop is happening overnight, so it looks like my search visibility is happening when my customers are asleep!Sadly, job hunting might be on my New Year’s resolution list, too. 😕
Im down 60%. So upsetting
I think (if I had to guess a number) maybe 60% of all ads that would normally be Etsy or other platform ads have been replaced with election ads, lets see how it changes after the election. I have not dropped like others however I do a lot of work on social media and advertising. My numbers are WAYYYY up since last year but I have been increasing steady all year. Last year (for my early shop) wasn't much to compare to.
Making 6 figures I hope
@@EUCvibes unfortunately not yet however maybe next year. I'm fortunate enough to do it full time and have been able to quit my 9-5
Does anyone know if Scott has gigs on Fiverr? I think someone may be impersonating him on the platform. Can anyone confirm?
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@@brandcreators yes, you have an impersonator. I will email you now!
Nearly 1,000 total sales. Selling nothing now.