Now that I have direct checkout, and use it exclusively for payments I must add, I am busier than I used to be. It would seem that Etsy should have thought of how it may have helped sellers, and maybe would have had helpers on standby, ready to rush over at a moments notice. Because of good sales, I no longer have the time to sleep in, take naps, go for coffee, spend hours on face book, look at pinterest, and the list goes on and on.
I am now forced to be out scrounging for new merchandise, packing, shipping, trying to keep the shop stocked with listings, answering questions of why I hate paypal, etc.
To top it all off, I am expected to keep track of may sales, my returns, what my fees are, how I could possibly pay them without paypal, and just so much more. It really has like, made me do things that someone in business has to do. Once again, why can't they provide me with a monthly report of all figures that could be taken to my accountant on the silver platter, that should also be provided with this service.
Did they really thing I was capable of figuring this all out on my own, without someone holding my hand the entire journey? What pressure it has put on me, as I am feeling like I might be responsible for figuring some of these things out all on my own. For example since this mess all started, I had to get a debit card associated with the account my Etsy payments were deposited to. I had to do this in order to have access to and spend my money. WoW, I never had to do that with paypal!! Just this past month I could clearly see that Etsy was not going to do my business taxes for me, and for some reason was not accountable for keeping track of everything, and I actually had to work on that too.
A few other things since direct checkout...My snow blower is not running as well as it did last year, the vacuum cleaner quit running, and one of the computers died and needed to be replaced. I would have normally thought this was part of an alien conspiracy, but the timing with Direct Checkout, has me wondering.
It almost seems as though Direct Checkout was made to be a simple and easy credit card processor. (I had my own merchant account once, and come to think of it, DC is much easier). Maybe they were on to something, and I simply thought is was something more.
Etsy, you have created a great service here, and I for one am grateful for having it at my disposal for what it is. If it changes, and evolves, over time, that is great too, but it is soooo much better that nothing, which is what I had not too far back. I still remember having to go to that slime covered site to get my money, and now I am free to do things my way again, and DC has made it possible.
For what its worth, if you do change and evolve, I like the Genie that I see on TV in one of the Satellite TV ads.
