Every Etsy sale involves multiple fees, and they stack up faster than most sellers expect. Between listing fees, transaction fees, processing fees, ads fees, and more—it can be overwhelming. So let’s break it down for you.
Category: Business Life
How much you can make on Etsy still depends on one thing more than anything else: whether you treat it like a business.
Your Etsy sales are down. You haven’t changed your prices, your product quality is the same, and you’re still putting in the work. So yeah, it’s easy to look at Etsy and think they’ve buried your listings on purpose.
Etsy copyright infringement is one of the fastest ways to derail your business—and it happens more often than most sellers think. In 2024 alone, Etsy removed over 1.5 million listings for intellectual property (IP) violations, many from sellers who didn’t even realize they were breaking the rules.