Etsy lays off 225 workers after ‘essentially flat’ sales, says CEO | Business::Staff notified via livestream Wednesday by Josh Silverman, who acknowledged ‘unfortunate’ timing during holiday season
Fucking hate capitalism’s need for infinite growth, flat sales means you’re doing exactly the same as you were doing last year, if it was sustainable last year it’s sustainable this year
Especially for a company that is little more than a platform
LESS COMPLAINING MORE BREEDING AND BUYING (whip emoji)
COMPLAIN WHILE YOU FUCK SO WE CAN SELL YOUR CHILDREN HAND CRAFTED BABY BOTTLES.
FILLED WITH LEAD JUICE WATER SO THEY CAN BE MORE SMURT
Not always.
There is likely some development occurring that is assumed to be funded by future growth. If that growth doesn’t pan out, then the addition of features may not be economically viable.
As an example of a website who did it right, look at Craigslist. After their website was developed, there has been very little development outside of targeted areas meant to grow their revenue stream or make the site easier to manage.
I know a long-term seller
Site went to shit. No seller support. No actual new features that are requested, bugs that are known for years and nobody cares, increase in commission percentage, removal of product categories without explanation and absolutely zero willingness to stop drop shippers flooding the site
It’s basically a shittier Amazon marketplace now
Person I know just has whatever is left running there and doesn’t bother updating the catalogue
Are there any viable alternative sites you’re aware of?
https://artisans.coop/ is run by the actual people making the things being sold. It was started by a group of Etsy sellers who were tired of Etsy’s bullshit.
Nice tip! This has no right being as cute as it is: https://artisans.coop/products/curious-cat-cozy
They need to work on their search feature. Did a search for “dad hat” and “five panel hat” with no results.
It’s entirely possible they don’t have either of those things. It’s a pretty new website, I only learned about it awhile back thanks to Lemmy.
Edit: yup, they need to work on their search. “Five panel hat” has no results while “5 panel hat” does. No dad hats, though.
That’s awesome! I hope something similar appears for UK/Europe
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That’s the problem, they’ve cornered the market.
Shopify & Big Cartel
there are a couple, but they are almost all US-only
Yup and it’s riddled with counterfeit items too
The buyer protection on Etsy is pretty shit too. Tried to return a coat that was too small, seller ghosted me, Etsy requires it to be “completely different” from the expected product. So I’m out about a hundred bucks because I wanted a nice winter jacket.
So if the company is not doing well at all, how about assessing the CEO performance? If company direction isn’t good, fire the CEO, not the workers who ensure operations
But then who will feign sadness and remind everyone that while it’s unfortunate it was a button that needed to be pressed and that they’d do it again?
I am sad for the workers but not sad for Etsy. Its just a milking company squeezing the most out of hard working and Creative individuals
My wife keeps bringing up Etsy to sell things I make in my hobby, but they take too much of the sale and nobody would (probably) pay for it if I marked up to make my take-home the same as cash sales.
Plus with the severe saturation of the site with metalwork… I’d probably never sell anything that way anyway.
So many companies choosing the holidays for these layoffs. Very sad.
I buy a lot of stuff off of Etsy. I hate using Etsy and un-installed the app after 1 day of use.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The online retail company will reduce its headcount by about 11% after deciding that a “leaner, more agile” workforce would help shore up growth.
Staff were notified in a livestream on Wednesday by Josh Silverman, its chief executive, who blamed the fact that gross merchandise sales on Etsy had remained “essentially flat” for two years.
“At the same time, employee expenses have grown, even as we have introduced significant cost-cutting measures and adjusted or paused hiring plans,” Silverman wrote in an internal email.
It comes after Hasbro, the toymaker, announced two weeks before Christmas that it would cut 1,100 employees as it grapples with lackluster sales.
Describing Wednesday as “one of the hardest [days] we’ve experienced at Etsy”, Silverman sought to rally the staff who were not cut.
“The waters may be rough right now,” he wrote, “but there’s no other ship I’d rather be on, and no other crew I’d rather be with, as we weather this cycle and emerge even stronger on the other side.”
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“The waters may be rough right now,” he wrote, “but there’s no other ship I’d rather be on, and no other crew I’d rather be with, as we weather this cycle and emerge even stronger on the other side.”
Sure, as you know that you can throw people overboard to save your own ass.
