In this Storque article, and this companion forum thread, Etsy announces a tiny change to the left sidebar menu in Your Etsy > > Items:
Dear Sellers,
We wanted to inform you of a text change you will find in Your Etsy. The text link, Expiration Dates, has been changed to Renew Items. The line of text highlighted below now reads Renew Items:
“Renewing” has become the common parlance among sellers. It became clear to us that “Expiration dates” line of text was not catching the seller’s eye. The text change should make the feature more user-friendly for sellers and more obvious to new sellers.
No other changes in functionality, pages, or text have taken place and you will still find all of the same information on the newly named Renew Items page. Looking for your upcoming expiration dates for your listed items? They will still be right there where they have always been, just with a new name.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Time to check out DaWanda I guess. Etsy was working pretty well 1.5 yrs ago when I started but has fallen off since the beginning of this year.
Just wanted to puke when I saw they made the “relist” change in “your esty”. Makes me feel like their rubbing our noses in the fact that will do what ever they want regardless of how often we ask for change whether it be a working search platform or advertising or whatever.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
ebbandflo hit the Etsy nail on its Etsy thread: The Place Where Everything is Saturated.
Etsy loves their phenomenal growth, but has anything really changed to accomodate its new size? Have showcases increased or changed? Have promotions been added? Is there any new tool for sellers to use to get attention?
Ummmm, NO.
The tools that exist are too small, to exclusionary, too old, too boring, to expensive for what they offer, too controlled by only Etsy, too easy to manipulate by Etsy for their own means, and just too little for a site this big.
It is absolutely no surprise that Re-Listing is no longer effective, Etsy used it to death, just like Etsy uses everything on their site to death———-whether it actually helps sellers or not. No vision, no imagination, no plan and no thought whatsoever about what sellers need. After 3 years of seeing the same requests in the Forums, and NO ETSY ACTION, Etsy sure isn’t going to do anything different today.
Oh, but Etsy has the solution! Any visitor can read 2,000 Storque articles over thousands of pages, try to understand what each one is about, look at the endless pictures and try to see what the hell they are talking about, then read the next 2,000 Etsy Finds emails that are all about products they have no clue what they are and who might want to buy them (but Etsy thinks are tre kool) and then they wasted 3 and a half hours and they have no time to shop.
Oh, I think I’ll go to DaWanda and pick out my gift list today. They set it up so I can shop in about 30 minutes and get to everything I want and need!
And they update and improve their site just about every month! So they are much more interesting to look at!
August 19th, 2008 at 10:21 am
You ARE awesome, curler lady.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I think I just set a new world record for typos. I am awesome.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Etsy changing it from Expiration Dates to Renew Items tells me all I need to know about where they stand on making money from sellers.
I have NO issue with a business making money from its customers but Etsy seems to want their sellers to do it with one hand tied behind their back. I want to sell, I want to sell bucketloads on Etsy. I’d personally be happier to fork over a tons of $1.05 for every wristlet I sell than chipping away for visibility on a useless Search function with 20cent renewals.
Sure Etsy, you may be very happy with $50 a month from me…..but I’m telling you that I am happy to give you more money, if only you’d allow me to sell properly. More sales = more money for BOTH of us.
Etsy: You place for all things renewed over and over again