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The best Etsy alternatives for selling your crafts

If you’re an unhappy Etsy seller, there are other possibilities to try.

And in March of 2023, when the Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, Etsy responded by holding back the fees of some of its sellers, an action that was feared to be disastrous for smaller craft businesses. As pointed out in a recent article in The Information, the company seems to be caught between trying to attract consumers with lower prices and maintaining its reputation as the place where they can find handcrafted gifts. If you’re thinking about selling out of your own website but want a way to more easily handle payments, sales tracking, shipping costs, etc., an e-commerce platform could be very useful, and Shopify seems to have relatively friendly small-shop services.

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