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Re:Etsy sellers are furious over new mandatory ad fees by stickfigure on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:41AM (#22430840)
If you make 10% on each Etsy sale, you need to find a new business. 10% works for large volume retailers or very expensive products, neither of which are really Etsy's forte. Even people selling print-on-demand tshirts have much higher margins than that.

TL;DR: The 10%-margin shop doesn't exist; they already went out of business.

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Re:Etsy sellers are furious over new mandatory ad fees by tomnipotent on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:08AM (#22430976)
> The 10%-margin shop doesn't exist; they already went out of business.

Exactly, just comes off as crocodile tears to me. This is a red herring and distracts from the real issue of not being able to opt-out of Outside Ads.

I'm willing to wager that not allowing opt-out is the only way they can reach a saturated-enough product catalog to make advertising profitable.

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