➽ You Voted: Etsy 'Wore' It Better Than Amazon Handmade - November 3, 2015
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13347589/1/you-voted-etsy-wore-it-better-than-amazon-handmade.html"Many of the sellers on Handmade also sell on Etsy, and an obvious question arose: can they both exist? Amazon has a reputation of being a behemoth that comes in and squashes the little guys, but in this particular category, the little guy might actually be preferable, especially for sellers and buyers who care more about the ethos and authenticity of a platform."
"While it's still too early to tell if Etsy can compete against Amazon, we decided to ask you, our readers, to cast your vote on eight different products to decide who did it better, Etsy or Handmade at Amazon. And the (nonscientific) results are in. For each of the eight items in our poll, Etsy took home first prize. Its biggest landslide was the Bottle Lamp, where Etsy got 88% of the votes over Handmade."
Etsy = 88%
Amazon Handmade = 12%
What do you think?
"Hard to tell which is performing better at this point, but what we do know is that in the three weeks since launch the number of items on Handmade at Amazon has doubled to 160,000 and that the wait to get a store approved for Handmade at Amazon is now up to six weeks," Wedbush analyst Gil Luria said.
Wolff also said that this doesn't have to be a winner-takes all scenario, and Etsy and Handmade can coexist. "I do not believe Etsy is existentially at risk," he said. "The artisan market is much bigger than Wall Street thinks it is."
Please check on the results in the link above.
