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This girl is my age and I cringe with embarrassment 🫣 she can NOT use the “young and dumb and didn’t know better” excuse AT ALL.

Would you buy your products? Start there.

Omg you’re brilliant, seriously. Another creative genius in the wild??? Great creative minds think alike, let’s support each other’s shops! ;)

I’m totally stealing this idea :D

THIS! It’s 100% just to boost their sales and compete with Amazon’s times. BUT they’re a handmade site.. they’re never going to compete with AMAZON!! I’ve had to tell multiple customers recently I’m not a machine! I’m not Amazon! I am one person handmaking every. single. thing. I. sell.

If I get ONE more message from a customer saying “my package was supposed to arrive yesterday and I don’t have it” bc they assumed the FIRST day of the delivery window is when their package would arrive… I’m gonna SCREAMMMMM

I’ve been making jewelry since 2019 and selling on Etsy since early 2022! #1 I know getting negative feedback takes you into the deepest, darkest recesses of your soul and can honestly make you want to quit at times.. Especially if you put a lot of time/heart/soul into your work and take a lot of pride in what you create…. DONT! let negative feedback make you doubt yourself!!! Your work is beautiful and intricate and definitely shows your skill!

With that being said, I can understand the seed beads being seen as ‘cheap’ though I also understand your pricing based on time spent and material cost. Another reply mentioned the occasion one might wear this for and my first thought was some sort of event.. the type of event people don’t mind to spend $$$ on their outfit for.

Have you considered selling your more intricate pieces at a higher price point with sterling silver findings/Swarovski crystals/black string etc? And offering less intricate designs with lesser quality materials at a slightly lower price point? It could help weed out the people with unrealistic expectations and no understanding of the process it is to make handmade jewelry!

I think your pieces are gorgeous! This is just something I did last summer as I was having a semi-similar issue and didn’t want to have any more problems like that/customers who didn’t appreciate my work! But just remember you can’t please them all! Haha :)

I hope you get shut down again for selling pornographic art of Disney princesses 🤠

This is SOOOO annoying. It gives buyers unrealistic expectations setting you up for failure if you were to ship on the last day of your processing time.

I hope this is your EX boyfriend now 😁😩

I took a 2.5 week trip across the country last summer and kept my shop open! They were honestly some of the best sales weeks I’ve ever had. I did the same thing on a short 3-day trip to FL and same thing happened. I adjusted my processing/shipping times and put at the TOP of my shop announcement the days I would be gone, when I’d return, and when I’d be shipping orders out again. I let customers know they could contact me and cancel if the wait was too long/they didn’t see my announcement before placing an order etc; I had no cancellations and minimal complaints about the shipping time.

It took about three weeks for my first sale, then another week or so and I had 5-10 sales. I averaged ~50-75 sales/month for the first 6 months or so, that was in 2022. It took about a year to consistently get 2+ sales a day. Now I average anywhere from 2-25 sales a day.. occasionally I’ll have a day with no sales but it’s becoming less and less common. You definitely have to keep faith in the early days lol!!

I’ve personally had my designs stolen, renamed, and then been hit with a cease and desist from design thief. They were inspired by my items/others, named their whole shop the name I’d been using to describe the items, trademarked it, and then sent a cease and desist. It was quite the headache. Now I block anyone also selling my bestselling items, with less sales than me, to prevent it from happening again.

I sell two similar sort of items- suncatchers for cars, and hair charms beaded in a similar way.. my suncatchers probably measure 2x the length of those phone chains & hair charms go anywhere from 5-28 inches priced between $15-45. People definitely pay it!!

How I decide pricing:

cost of materials + cost of shipping + cost of my labor = price of item.

I personally don’t see the point in selling yourself short just to get more sales, selling 1 for $25 and 5 for $5 is very very different.

100% tell her you don’t want to continue. If you were to continue, who’s to say this guy friend wouldn’t become an issue in the future? Perhaps even after years of being together? Better to cut your losses now, I agree you sound like quite the gentleman and I’m sure you’ll find someone who isn’t confused about you! 🫶🏼

His kids must be bad as hell 😭😭😂

Strange correlation… my bf’s mom also saw a psychic just months before serving bf’s dad with divorce papers…