How's your business in December so far?

[Former_Member]

How's your sales in December so far?

I have 7 sales in another etsy shop up till now.
Comparing with the same period of last year, I had over 10 sales and totally had 30 orders in this festive month.

I don't know why it's so quiet in etsy since October.
Are you experiencing the same thing? I hope more orders will come before the start of 2017.

[hooknsaw]

We are very busy (43 orders this month so far), and selling out fast on a lot of our scarves. We have already beat last Decembers total and are on track to match 2014 (our best year).
We also spent all year building inventory for the busy season and coming up with new designs.

[Former_Member]

For my Etsy shop, I've had 15 orders thus far. My other venue has done over 60 for this month so far.

[Former_Member]

After 2 zero sale months, I've had 3 sales already in December. So far I'm happy.

[Former_Member]

Although my shop has been "open" for more than a year, I only really started posting a bunch of stuff this month and have had 1 sale so far.

I don't have much experience here to compare it with, but friends who have been doing craft shows have old me this has been a really slow year because of the economy.

[HildaLea]

I've had slightly fewer sales in Dec than last year, but I had slightly more in Nov. I think it is balancing out :)

[Former_Member]

Hi,
I only started selling in the second half of this year so can't compare it to previous years, but so far for December I have had 1 order, 271 views and 21 favourites, compared to November which had 5 orders, 375 favourites and 747 views.
Maybe people are leaning more towards in-store shopping. Despite buying as many Christmas presents as I could here, in the end they were mostly from department stores, due to postage costs.