The system has no opt-out if you've ever gone above $10K in rolling 12 month sales.

How many sellers are doing more business than that though? I figure Etsy has better numbers on that than we can speculate.

My mom started selling hand-made jewelry locally, and then started an Etsy account. She started doing them for fun, and then realized she can make a little money at it.

A few years later, and I think she just barely qualified for that $10k this last year. So she went from pure hobby to being classed as one of the "biggest sellers" in just a few years.

I don't know how many people get to that point, but what she's doing isn't particularly unique. Literally anyone could do it if they have enough control of their hands and enough free time.

I'm not sure but the point is that it's WELL within the threshold of "mom n pop".