Etsy sellers propose boycott, call company’s new fee hike ‘pandemic profiteering’

// Over 8,000 people have signed a petition urging Etsy to call off plans to raise fees for sellers on its platform, with some merchants also threatening to go on strike.

//  The proposed fee increase is set to begin on April 11, 2022 and will raise transaction fees from 5% per order to 6.5% per order.

The petition also outlines other desired changes from Etsy sellers, such as cracking down on resellers, described as “people selling mass produced goods that they have not even designed themselves.”

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