Considering that the strike is complaining about hike in fees - it doesn't seem like there is enough demand.
Is Etsy such a good aggregator, that setting up a storefront with Square is that hard?
Re:Etsy Strike
by dangrossman on Monday April 11, 2022 @02:49PM
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Etsy has somewhere on the order of 100 million active buyers, searching Etsy for goods to buy every month. If you set up a storefront on Square, you start out with 0 active buyers, searching your storefront 0 times every month. Marketplaces bring tremendous value to small sellers.
So... Let me get this straight - they get a lot of customers off other people's work, but aren't willing to pay for the increased costs of providing them those extra customers.
These Etsy people sound like entitled brats.
However, there's not enough to demand to keep the shareholders of an IPO'ed company happy.
And there's the problem.