Seeking thoughts on Etsy

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Things I made are overrunning the house and I'm thinking of starting an Etsy store to sell some of them. If you have any thoughts about Etsy either as a seller or as a buyer, I'd like to know them.

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I've purchased several items from ohiblather's Etsy Store (http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5075189) in the past, with great success. I quite like them. I have never been a seller there.

She was a safe place to start for me, since we know each other in person (not super well, but we get on well when we run into each other) and she's local, so I thought that if something fell through, I could always contact her directly and work it out.

Just this year I took the plunge into ordering a bunch more stuff from Etsy from random sellers. It's also been a good experience, in terms of purchasing, although none of it has arrived yet, so I can't comment on that part. The only thing that tripped me up is that I'm not in the habit of checking where the sellers are located and Etsy doesn't really push that information at you overly much, so I bought some stuff from Singapore without realizing it. While the shipping was very reasonable (such that it didn't ding my "Wait, what's up with this?" radar during checkout), I'm just hoping that it actually arrives here before Christmas.

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Thanks!