Also I have been busy as you may have guessed designing a web site for my fairy houses, painted cottage furniture, and garden wildflower landscapes. I discovered weebly.com through another etsy shop owner. She too felt that if she was doing all this work promoting and marketing her work why was she handing over a nice percentage to etsy.com? They weren’t marketing her shop and since the changes made in SEO by the big boys, etsy once again has left us out in the internet ether’s. At weebly.com I even have a nice shop broken down to the different areas I sell in. Woodland fairy houses, painted furniture, and oil and watercolor paintings all set up with PayPal or you can use Google Checkout. Get this it is FREE. I think the internet fairies are behind this one. Seriously, even me the terminator of computers crashing, set it up and even took my domain name at GoDaddy to point to my new site.
Between The Weeds 
Very good information! Thank you for sharing this. My luck with etsy has been very hit or miss. I just thought that I was too small of a business and got in too late.
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Etsy not the same it was when it first came on the scene. It has dramatically changed in the last 18 months and they have different goals now. That is fine. Etsy changed not the people selling and buying, Etsy has a tendency to promote the inner circle of etsians. I personally do not care and do my own thing otherwise I am spending valuable time chasing the phantoms of the sale.
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I agree 100%. My trouble is, every time I think about closing down my shop on etsy, someone buys something or puts one of my items on a treasury list!
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I’ve had such a tough time finding things on Etsy! I’ve always wondered what was going on there. 🙂 This was great information!
Christina
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