The Amiable Leaf

[primsong]

Seeing as we're doing fun stuff like having to re-stain the house, replace a dying dishwasher, replace two patio doors AND help with some college this year, I'm looking for ways to bring in a few more pennies on the side. The result so far has been setting up an Etsy account/'storefront' wherein I can peddle some of my assorted vintage whatnot and maybe dabble in selling some artsy things too, eventually. Somewhere down inside me must be some of those shopkeeper genes from my many merchant forefathers, if I can just rummage some of them up.

It's called 'Amiable Leaf' and so far it's, er... empty. With a pathetic banner at the top that I'll have to work up a replacement for. I'm still scratching my head over how to calculate shipping and other odd bits and am frankly a bit intimidated, like a little kid with a lemonade stand in a mall.

What I'm wondering is if any of you have tried selling anything on Etsy, and how it's going? Has it been worth your time? I'm eyeballing ebay as well, but they're so darn complicated and add fees every time you turn around or breathe - Etsy seems more friendly.

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[livii.livejournal.com]

I've never sold there, but have bought, and it's always seemed very easy and straightforward (other than when I bought from a local Canadian seller the site still made us convert the payment into US funds - ugh!) My cousin's fiancee sells on etsy and she seems thrilled with it. I think it's better than eBay by far for the sorts of things you're mentioning you want to sell. Good luck!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Thanks - If your cousin's lady is happy, that's good feedback to hear, though I can understand it would be *quite* annoying to not have other options in the monetary system. :-/ I wonder if they'll launch other Etsys for other countries eventually, if it keeps doing well.