anyone know about?

so my friend posted a photo from the website storenvy..
does anyone sell on that website and if so do you do well or is it a scam? I dont plan on selling there, im just curious

thanks

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Its a legitimate website.

Many people do quite well there. Have you checked it out?
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I looked around, its a bit confusing...does it cost anything to sell there?

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Sounds interesting. On first quick glance it looks free.
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I think listing stuff there is free! I haven't used it but I know people who do well there.
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I assume the info you want can be found on the site itself.
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its completely free. NO LISTING OR SELLING FEES! sounds amazing right? well, its not as well known as etsy so you may not get as many sales. I know someone who's sales dropped 80% by switching to storenvy. its great to join if you have the time to manage both! but if its between etsy or storenvy. then stay on etsy. I didn't make a single sale on storenvy in a week so i stopped using it. (i make around 100 sales a week on etsy). that website is harder for people to find you. You have to market yourself more.
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Amanda, congrats on such a successful shop. Who woulda thunk? :-)
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Storenvy is hugely popular in the US, but it isn't Etsy. There are a lot of mass produced items on there, but Storenvy has never been advertised as a handmade market, it's more a place for designers, and if a designer has their products mass produced, it counts.
I sell with them, but I have a hard time actually SELLING. I think that's BECAUSE my stuff is handmade and so not as flawless as plastic items.
As Amanda has said, it's totally free. They make their money through a t-shirt printing company - originally it was all one website, but both the selling aspect and the t-shirt printing part totally exploded so they seperated the sites. Storenvy only make money from sellers if sellers pay a monthly fee which gives them access to offering coupon codes that give buy one get one free offers, or fixed discounts (ie $10). Percentage discounts are free to use, though. I've been on there for about 6 months and made 3 sales, so I don't bother that much, but since I don't have to renew any listings either I can just leave it be. As long as I remember to remove items that are no longer available, there's no problem, and occasionally a sale will happen out of nowhere.

But Storenvy don't do any advertising for you like Etsy does. Etsy looks after us, and that's where the fees come in. Storenvy don't. All they give you is, effectively, a free page and a free shopping cart and checkout. You have total control over your shop's HTML though, so you can make it totally your own, and you can add your own URL too.

If you have the time to manage them both then go for it, there's a feature that allows you to copy Etsy listings onto Storenvy too, the first 20 are free but then you have to pay about $20 one-off for the rest of the app that will allow you to copy the rest.

It's not great if you're just starting out, and now that Etsy allows Direct Checkout, Storenvy is a little more redundant since you no longer have to redirect people there who don't want to pay by paypal.
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