Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Can you help?

Etsy closed my shop down.
I had 924 items listed.
I was all ready for a great holiday season after working really hard for weeks to make new buttons and new mirrors, take all the photos and get everything listed.

I am a single mother with no other income, except for my button shop that Etsy disintegrated with the stroke of a keyboard key.

Zibbet will give me a FREE shop, bless their hearts, if I can get just 3 more people signed up for a Premium Shop on Zibbet.

A Premium Shop will cost you a FLAT $7 per month. And that price will NEVER go up.

This is sounding like one of those "Feed the Children" ads." For $7 month you can feed an American Family of three." Sad thing is, it's true. 

If I don't get my buttons back on line fast.... well I don't know what I'll do.

If you've been thinking of opening a Zibbet premium shop, would you please consider doing it now?

Just click this link and it will take you to sign up for a Zibbet Shop and I will get credit.
When I get 3 people to sign up, I'll get my free shop.
Plus, I will blog about your shop with links and help promote your shop as a thank you.


Thanks,
Judy

http://www.zibbet.com/PortableGraffiti/sell


Me and my 2 daughters, both the same age, one adopted from Brazil and one bio.
Photo taken this past July. Most recent one I could find of all 3 of us.
One daughter is going to college and the other works at a local store for minimum wage.
It's just us 3 women.
Please help if you can by opening a Premium $7 per month Zibbet Shop.
Thanks.

The olden days at Etsy when Etsy was small

Just ignore that little pink box over there on the right that shows no sales at Etsy. Here's the real one. I did a screenshot of it before my Etsy shop was closed down.

WOW! 1,044 sales on Etsy in one year's time. I worked my butt off to get those sales.

Now I am starting something new. Zibbet. It's new. So it's small.

This is the important part: If you've ever been in the forums on Etsy if you've heard all the complaints: Few views, no sales, and this I have heard over and over, "It's not like it used to be in the beginning of Etsy."

Sellers who have been with Etsy from the beginning tell about how wonderful it was when Etsy was SMALL.

Their items were featured often on the front page.
They could always see their new listings run across the front page on "just listed."
They had tons of views.
And sales were GREAT!

They reminisce about the olden days at Etsy when Etsy was small.

Well, now here is YOUR chance to get in on the early years and be seen, get sales, just as the old timers on Etsy did.

I have jumped into Zibbet and you should, too.

Get a Premium Shop for a Flat $7.00 month. That's $7.00 forever, or as long as you keep your shop.
NO listing fees.
NO transaction fees.

Go for it and get lots of views, lots of sales.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Important Notice

I am NOT out of business.
As you see my Etsy shop is not working.
I hope to have this resolved today.
In the meantime, please contact me here through the blog if you need anything.

Thanks.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Finally got a reply from Etsy

Hi-

Your shop was shut down because it was in violation of our terms of use.

Etsy Support

Okay so um, what violation?

I feel like I was just kicked out of the office and not allowed to even take my brief case with me. All my customer contacts are there. I can't leave feedback for the last few customers I had.

It took me a full year to write all the copy for my 900+ items, all my copy and all my photos have been confiscated.

I thought for sure someone hacked into my etsy. I am flabbergasted that it was Etsy who deactivated my shop without any warning.

What kind of an organization does that?

I wonder what I did to make them shut my shop down?

??#&*)@?

And now my only income is gone.

If my customers see this, please contact me via the blog. I am NOT out of business. In fact I have been making stock like crazy from 9 AM until sometimes past midnight to get ready for the holiday season.

Freaking out! My Etsy Shop is closed

I woke up this morning to an email from Etsy Support that says:

Etsy Account Closure

Hello,

This email is to notify you that your Etsy account has been closed. If this is an error, please contact Etsy Support at support@etsy.com to have it corrected. Otherwise, we have enjoyed your company and wish you all the best.

Team Etsy

I go to my shop and sure enough, it's NOT THERE!

I have emailed them twice but all I got was an auto reply saying someone will reply within 24 hours. I'm losing sales and customers while my shop is down.

I am wondering if it is possible for a shop to be hacked into, and some strange person deactivated my shop.

Advice anyone?

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