Etsy...

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Hey,

Anyone use Etsy here to sell?

I made a sale last night, was for a 3d printed item.

My first sale on the platform, although I've sold dozens of these models on eBay.

I wasn't aware of the fee structure, I presumed it would be similar to eBay... how wrong I was.

£45 sale plus £5 shipping.
The combined item price and shipping to make £50 sale.

Then they took £8.50 in fees for standard sale... £3.50 higher than eBay.
Then they took £7.50 for offsite adverts....
Huh?!

In the end, I'm left with £32.50 from a £50* sale...

Which is a shame, as the materials needed to print the model are £15...

I've removed the listing from Etsy... and will stick with eBay...

OK what planet do they think sellers exist? The costs of items ends up being hyper inflated simply due to fee's!

 

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That was your mistake right there. It would have made sense to check what the fees were before using the site!

Yep.

But still.... its excessive lol

 

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What are you printing? A house? £15 of material? So you are using 1kg of filament??

Larger than human sized Red Dwarf Heads

Plus this buyer wants Silk Bronze.. so it's about £22 per KG

 

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I'm pretty sure you can turn off the off-site adverts part. My wife has made a healthy amount on etsy and although the fees were enough to push her to use insta/her own website mainly now, she hasn't ever had that level of fees going on.

I found how to. Took a while to find it though.. they hide it well.

 

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Why are people buying bronze, larger than life-size smegheads?

Not sure mate.
Sold a couple of dozen Krytens and 7 Rimmers now.
Only listed Rimmer last week.

Already working on Cat and Lister models as have had requests for a full cast

 

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Can you do you do a S7 Kochanski in soft silicone rather than resin? Asking for a friend.

No lol

how long does each head take to print

48 hours

 

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They charge a high fee to look the other way on users low key breaking copyright laws it seems

Not sure how they can Copyright a person's likeness.

 

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If it's a character from the show then they'll own the copyright, depends how active they are in protecting their content but only takes a few reports to Etsy for them to close your shop.

Etsy has got a lot worse though, used to be handmade items but now it's any old tat from China

Meh, I'm pulling my items from Etsy anyway.
The fees are double eBays even without the added offsite add fee.

 

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Personality rights - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In the UK we specifically don't have this but have something called passing off

The problem regards copyright is you're printing models of characters from a show which will have copyright/trademark protection

I doubt they will try and shut me down.
They don't make figures these days, especially life size busts.
So... unless they'd start, I'm probably OK to continue.

 

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Well, Kryton looks nothing like the real person playing him so are your prints a likeness of the actor as he looks in real life or the character of Kryton as he appears on screen?

I'm not really bothered.

I like how this has become about copyright, when I can guarantee that these posters wouldn't care if the shoe was on the other foot. If it's clear direct copyright infringement, I'm against it.
When it's vague like this, it can go into the grey box it lives in. My models are sculpted by myself and also commissioned by myself. I technically own the copyright to my files... which have a likeness to TV show characters... sure.. probably wouldn't hold up in court. But it will never get that far.
Might start doing Micky Mouse prints In 2024 too...

So, I'll no longer be discussing Copyright in this thread.

 

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I really wouldn't bother doing that for 15 quid.

Start a go fund me if you are that skint, I'll chip in.

I normally make about £22 profit after shipping.

This one from etsy will put me down as £10 profit, just worked it out.

But poop when the printer takes 2 days to print it... lol