I’ve worked long and hard building my shop on Etsy, maybe 7 or 8 years. This last year the work has indeed paid off. I’ve built up a customer base that comes back to buy more, star seller status and enough money to pay a decent wage. But there are so many Karen’s. At least one in ten. The amount of times I’ve been messaged asking about A sizes. I set it out in my listings as mm/cm/inch so it’s there anyway. But if you’re too stupid to read the listing in full you’re probably too stupid to Google. I get it.
They wait a couple of weeks and then they go on and leave one star and dreadful feedback and my shop looks shit again because people see the bad feedback first.
Anyway, come January for the first time in the UK and USA anyway, the gig economy is coming to an end. Next year online platforms like Etsy, Amazon, justeats, Uber and many more will have to register and collect the tax details of all of their ‘sellers’. They will be required to submit a years worth of every sellers sales and monies made on their platform for the years 24/25.
Hilarious. It’s like opening a massive can of worms. The companies have to admit their massive profits, their small fry users have to admit their little earnings after the big guys have taken their massive chunk.
You can bet your bottom dollar which one gets penalised the most. To be fair it’s taken them a while to figure it out.
I suppose that was the beauty of paper money.
Bitcoin anyone?