I use etsy for my handmade loose leaf teas and vintage teacups and ebay for all the related items that aren’t allowed or don’t make sense in my etsy shop. I tried my own website but it took enormous amounts of time and in 2 months I only had two sales and one of those was to my mom.
Yes,i pay large fees to etsy and ebay but when I sell my handmade loose leaf teas on my local farmers market circuit those costs are high too. If I had a brick and mortar I would have overhead expenses that wouldn’t decrease if sales were bad so I like the flexibility of paying commission on actual sales to these big box platforms. There are some listing fees but they are small.
I like etsy better than ebay because in general it doesn’t have the swap meet feel that ebay has. Also ebay has really vicious timeliness standards. I had a few items with the wrong ship date and they put me on probation and restricted my seller standards.
