Customer Care Tip: Creating a Reserved Listing
Dear Sellers, Wondering how to reserve a listing in your shop for an inquiring buyer? It's easy as pie! Here's how: 1) Edit your item listing by going to Your Etsy>Currently For Sale>Edit 2) Click the edit icon (pencil) next to your item's title to change the title. Here you want to boldly state that this listing is …
Service Tips for Sellers: Everyone Isn't Your Sweet Aunt Kate
Dear Sellers, Everyone isn't your Sweet Aunt Kate. Everyone has an Aunt Kate — she's the sweetest lady alive, always delighted with your latest crafty endeavor, no matter what it is. It doesn't matter if the glue is a little blobby or there's a tiny smear in the paint — she displays or wears your latest as if it were a …
Customer Care Tip: Building a Better Alchemy Listing
Dear Sellers: Alchemy is a feature on Etsy where members can post requests for custom handmade items, and sellers then bid on the opportunity to make the goods. Alchemy is another way to buy and sell an item through Etsy and, like a regularly listed item, an Alchemy transaction eventually generates a sold …
How to Make an Outstanding Alchemy Bid & Stand out from the Rest
Sellers, here are some tips for making your Alchemy bids glitter like gold!Tip #1 - Bid on your specialty. If you bid only on the request you know you can rock, you can take the time to make that bid amazing. Buyers want to know you have the experience to make their requested piece exquisite. Tip #2 - Acknowledge the …
Customer Care Tip: Privacy and Custom Orders
Dear Sellers: We love all of the custom items available on Etsy, and we hope that the return of Alchemy will make it easier for buyers to request custom pieces and for sellers to list them. However, there are some things to keep in mind when making and listing custom and personalized items.With such amazing …
Best Practices: Getting the Most out of Alchemy
After a long hiatus, Alchemy is back! Alchemy is Etsy's system for requesting custom-made items. For a full rundown of how Alchemy works, check out the Tech Update. Whether you're totally new to Alchemy or a long-time Etsian reuniting with it, here are some things to think about before and during your Alchemy …
Etsy Finds: Alchemy...!
Guess what's just around the corner? Old-school Etsy users will fondly remember the feature known as Alchemy, where shoppers can write up a listing for a custom order they're hankering for, and Etsy artists can bid on the project. Got ideas in your head you just haven't found using our tag/title search? Soon …
Alchemy…It’s Coming Soon!
Old school Etsians remember that long-lost feature called Alchemy, but for anyone who is relatively new to the Etsy shopping experience, Alchemy only exists as an abstract and mysterious word you’ve heard pop up every once in a while in the forums. Well, not for long! We will be launching the feature soon …
Customer Care Tip: Sending an Invoice from PayPal
This article was originally published on February 26, 2008. We've updated the content to be current as of September 8, 2008 for the upcoming holiday selling season. Check out Holiday How-To: Offering Services for more great tips on providing those special extra touches for your holiday shoppers. How to …
Etsy Find: Custom Bicycle Headbadge
One of my favorite parts of buying on Etsy is the conversations with the sellers and sometimes the ability to customize your purchase. One seller who offers customized items, headbadge, has combined her love of creating jewelry and her love of bikes to create these fun head badges for bicycles — made …
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