Etsy. Etsy is an e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items, supplies, as well as unique factory-manufactured items under Etsy's new guidelines, released in October 2013. These items cover a wide range, including art, photography, clothing, jewelry, food, bath and beauty products, quilts, knick-knacks, and toys. Many sellers also sell craft supplies such as beads, wire and jewelry-making tools. All vintage items must be at least 20 years old.[3] The site follows in the tradition of open craft fairs, giving sellers personal storefronts where they list their goods for a fee of US$0.20 per item.[4] As of August 2013, 30 million users are registered on the website and by the end of 2013, projections of one million sellers and over US$1 billion in total annual transactions have been announced.[1] History[edit] Etsy staff at work, July 2010 Kalin said that he named the site Etsy because he "wanted a nonsense word because I wanted to build the brand from scratch.
Main Features[edit] Buy Handmade - Make Your Pledge To Buy Handmade Goods. Unofficial Etsy News.
Thinking About Etsy In The San Telmo Markets. The streets of the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires turn into a big outdoor market on sundays. Our family spent sunday afternoon there this past weekend. As I strolled around, I could not help but think of Etsy, what it has become and what more it needs to do to realize its potential. But first a little backdrop. This decade we are now ending will be remembered as the time when the web became social. My friend Mark Pincus told me when he was first starting Zynga that social networks had to become like cocktail parties.
Now back to San Telmo. But the main thing that is going down in San Telmo on sundays is a social experience. People stroll, they chit chat, they sing, they dance, they eat, and they buy and sell. Etsy is the closest thing to San Telmo on the web. Etsy has done a good job of bringing people (real people) together to buy and sell. Etsy has mostly focused on handmade goods along with supplies for making things and vintage items.
Etsy finance.