Etsy or Folksy????????

[HowlingattheFullMOONMother]

I'm a self employed Jewellery Designer with my own website. I have 2 ranges of jewellery and have been selling my costume jewellery on Ebay for a few months now. I've sold a few pieces but with a the hoo-hah going on, on there it's very slow now.

I have both a Folksy and Etsy Account, but have used them for buying rather than selling.I have now decided to start selling on them too, but was wondering which one would you recommend best.As everything's hand-made and mostly one-offs it's not really feasible to put the same things on both sites.

Etsy always puts me off abit because its more Americanised and wondered if you still get quite decent sales from there?

I know theres quite a few of you that sell your wares on these sites, so thought I'd ask your wise advice.

i have a shop on each site - i started with folksy and am yet to get a sale - so i opened an etsy shop and had 6 sales in a week. Five of those sales were to england - so i would say DON'T be put off by it being american and in dollars!

good luck with your selling

I love etsy, buy a bit from there. Have never heard of folksy but will investigate

Thanks for the replies, might be worth the extra work and open one in both then

Will start with Etsy though

I have a Folksy shop & have sold 4 items so far. To be honest it looked a lot more friendly than Etsy which I thought was a bit swamped. I don't like the $ signs on Etsy!

Are any of you putting the same items on Etsy and Folksy or different items on each site? I have a folksy shop but wondered if I was to open an Etsy one if I should have different stock? It feels wrong to have the same on both incase incase someone orders the same from either site and I don't realise in time to delist it? Am I over thinking this?

Hi Samsonara,
I was the OP(Halloween Name) and in the end decided to go just with Folksy.

One reason being Etsy won't allow you to sell if you only have a debit card.But I agree with Whizz Etsy is very huge and my items would get lost in the crowd.

I've had my Folksy shop since it opened but only had the odd bit on there, but made a major effort for the last 6 weeks, and put lots on there, and have made a good few sales.

So much so, that I haven't actually put any listings on Ebay either.

I've actually had one customer from Folksy, buy items from my website, so all in all it's been a good experience.

Thank you for replying moonmother and well done getting sales that's great. I agree about Etsy and I will just list on Folksy, I'm new to this and just starting out. I think it will get better known and get more traffic and it's going to be possible to have international sales from feb next year. so hopefully it's all good for us.

Theres also MISI - Make It sell it www.misi.me.uk
Which is UK based

Its only been online a couple of months but already has over 800 shops

Thank you emma57573, I hadn't heard of misi.

I haven't tried Folksy, did have a go with selling jewellery on Etsy though.

I got lots of nice comments from people, did some cool swaps for stuff through the chat rooms but no actual sales. There is mountains of jewellery on there and I think it can get a bit lost.

Despite horrid changes to fees and feedback etc I would still stick with Ebay and your own website for selling.

Just thought, if you are self employed presumably you produce a reasonable volume of work, have you considered getting an agent to sell to shops/galleries on your behalf?

I have never heard of folksy,but I do buy a lot from etsy,so I say go with etsy!

forward links of your stuff to fashion editors of mags and papers..put a bit of marketing in?

I haven't had any sales on Folksy, but have sold several items (stationary, handmade felt, corsages)at Greenwich Market so I know they are sellable, just need to stick at it, haven't really got time to blog. I haven't tried Etsy but agree jemart I think as Etsy is better known you and OP will have more sales in less time there. I agree that jewellery is good to item to sell locally and send to fashion editors to use in their photoshoots

hi i've just opened my own folksy shop snowflakeunique.folksy.com, you need to have people put your shop as a favourite to get up in the rankings, so going to look up you folksy people now to tag you if you wish to do the same back that would be nice.
thanks amanda.x.

sorry guys couldn't find you please link to your shop so i can favourite you guys.