Etsy is charging shop owners for people viewing their content
Every time someone so much as looks at my posting, I lose 25 cents. They even charge for shipping, even though I don’t print their labels or use any shipping-related services besides my local USPS.
It’s impossible to sell things for a reasonable price, because shop owners have to make up the hundreds of tiny expenses Etsy piles on for no god damn reason. A year ago when I uploaded something I only got charged for the upload and if someone bought the thing. Today I have seven screenshots’ worth of expenses for two postings after only one day of having them up. Etsy is robbing people. They even took money from an order!
I sell my masks for $5 a piece. I also offer free shipping on orders $35 and up. This is my first free-shipping-order, meaning the customer spent $35 on my masks, and yet Etsy is only giving me $33.61. Why? I’m already being charged outrageously for daring to use their site, and they think they deserve my money just because I offered free shipping? That’s literally theft.
See anything else weird about that screenshot? Yeah. They charged me ten times for posting one post. That “auto-renewal charge” they label it as wasn’t even supposed to be charged to me until September.
Etsy is a scam and everyone who touches it is a victim
This isn’t what’s happening here (thankfully!) OP had one listing but listed multiple masks available for the listing. When you list something on Etsy they charge you 20¢. If you list that you have multiples of that item for sale, they’ll auto relist after someone buys one if you don’t opt out. What this means is that if you have 50 masks, Etsy charges you 20¢ for the listing. If someone comes in and buys five, they then charge you 20¢ five times now. OP didn’t know that at the time of posting this. People were buying masks in bulk, so they were having more relist charges than sales which made it look like Etsy was taking money for views when they weren’t. If you’re still upset that Etsy charges a 20¢ relist fee for the total items purchased, you can still reach out to individual sellers and see if they sell on other sites
tldr: the 20 cents is a relist fee. it was showing up a bunch bc people were buying OP’s masks in bulk
im not gonna post abt this a bunch of times, so pls look in the notes 4 more information!!!!
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