A half-formed thought

So I've been doing a lot of reading - and posting - over at Etsy Bitch, and as much as I love the idea of venting in the name of change, in honesty I think everyone realizes that it just isn't going to actually change anything.

Etsycorp isn't going to fix their multitude of problems just because a bunch of people complain.

It's Etsycorp's bottom line that needs to be impacted. But how to do it without hurting the thousands of indie businesses that are depending on Etsy? (I feel sorry for the multitude of them, really.)

There needs to be a concerted, orgaized effort to put a dent in Etsy's main source of revenue - listing fees.

Things that could be done:

~ STOP RENEWING ITEMS. Period. Just don't do it.

~ Stop listing new items.

~ Stop promoting Etsy as a whole. Get your own domain name and point it to your store if you have to, but don't tell people you're on Etsy. Don't tell all your crafting friends to set up stores. Tell others that the idea of Etsy is great, but the closest thing to a business plan they have is a children's book.

~ I would love to see a concerted effort on a "No Etsy Mondays" - where sellers either don't list/relist/renew on a certain day of the week, or list the same item in a different venue. Find a LiveJournal group, add something to Flickr (within their rules, mind you!), throw it up on Facebook or MySpace, put it on eBay if you have to. Just not on Etsy. Anywhere but Etsy. And not just one Monday, but all of them. Every Monday. Because I can guarantee that every Monday, there's another new disgruntled Etsy seller that wants to see change.

Maybe that would work.

Or maybe I'm delusional. That's entirely possible. ^_^