Posted by Tina Pietsch on October 8, 2015 at 12:07pm
Amazon launched today a new strictly handmade marketplace, basically to compete with Etsy.Personally, I'm not an amazon shopper, but have to admit this is interesting.http://services.amazon.com/handmade/handmade.htmlJust sharing :)
I heard about Amazon HM when it was first being promoted through some groups I am on. Some in those groups applied and got in, and put their stuff on. Some got accepted and after reading the fine print, decided not to. I did not apply after reading what some of the fine print was, like taking designs and so on.
i know this is two years old but need opinions, someone came up to me at tempe in fall and said she was part of handmade and told me to apply, i did and was accepted but from reading that they can give my designs away without my permission is a no no with my ethics, so has anyone done amazon, i do not want to hear about etsy only amazon.
This is so interesting. Can Amazon own everything? Can they sell everything? My children, that younger demographic, order just about everything from Amazon, deliveries almost daily to their doors. Encouraged by them I even bought a few Amazon stock shares. They are up 50% from when I bought them a year ago.
You definitely want your Amazon site to point to your own website -- but there is a lot to look at here and learn. Its been a month now since it launched. It will be interesting to watch.
I understand that the initial agreement states that Amazon has the right to use your designs, give them to a manufacturer, and sell them themselves. If this is true and the article referenced seem to reflect this, then I would not want to get involved. Not that I'm such a genius jewelry maker, but I still don't want to give away work to Amazon and then try to compete with them. I recommend looking carefully at the fine print if you decide to try it!
I sell Ceramic Judaica on Etsy. There are no catagories on Amazon that would make it easy to search for my work. I looked at the site when it went live yesterday, & I thought the work there looked very slick & production. I will not be joining.
I have been on Etsy since January. I have had multiple sales each month since opening my shop. There has been only 1 month with no sales, March. I was hesitant to try Etsy, and did not pursue it for over a year of being a craftsperson. My dh was the one to suggest it one evening in January. I got started that evening, setting up my shop and adding products. I am not making millions like the Birds Nest shop, who purportedly is getting stuff from China. There has been big write ups about the lady if you chose to read up on it. So Etsy is not perfect either. But I am reaching customers I would have never encountered. This is because most of my orders have gone out of state, way out of state, even to Hawaii, up the east coast, etc.
I will not give Amazon a try. I figure even if it works out in the end that there are a lot of bugs to work out. Maybe later after I see how some of my friends at craft group do. Several of them have signed up. A few are moving forward full speed ahead, some at balking and running, some are moving forward slowly. They are giving honest accounts of what the process is like and how they feel so I am trusting what they are finding.
BTW, I am not against Amazon for selling more than books. They are not the only business to evolve and change. I am selling additional products than coasters though that is all I started with. Aren't some of the others here evolving in their business?
Amazon is a world-wide marketplace for everything! I bought brake parts on Amazon that were significantly less expensive than the same thing at the auto parts store. For whatever I need, I look at Amazon, read the reviews, check the originator website and ebay and then buy wherever the price is lowest. Buyers today are more and more often looking at the web instead of using their feet because it's both time and cost effective. A lady in a doctor's waiting room told me that she only uses her bank card to get cash at her bank's ATM. This lady, while very sweet, is a dinosaur in terms of the modern shopper. Shoppers in your demographic do everything online, and even though I'm probably as old as that sweet dinosaur, if I had time to make enough product, I would definitely sign on for Amazon Handmade. The exposure alone would be worth the price of a ticket.
Interesting...yes, I was surprised to learn recently that you could buy shoes and tea from Amazon...I thought they just sold books. Now, competing with Etsy...do we really need this? I gave up on Etsy because there was just too much competition, maybe they'll lose some of their business to Amazon now...it'll be fascinating to see if this flies.
It is a little irritating that Amazon thinks they have to have a corner on selling everything. They used to sell basically books. Now they are selling it all. And now they want your art work.
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I heard about Amazon HM when it was first being promoted through some groups I am on. Some in those groups applied and got in, and put their stuff on. Some got accepted and after reading the fine print, decided not to. I did not apply after reading what some of the fine print was, like taking designs and so on.
i know this is two years old but need opinions, someone came up to me at tempe in fall and said she was part of handmade and told me to apply, i did and was accepted but from reading that they can give my designs away without my permission is a no no with my ethics, so has anyone done amazon, i do not want to hear about etsy only amazon.
I am not sure that Amazon allows redirection. Does it? I know Etsy doesn't allow it.
This is so interesting. Can Amazon own everything? Can they sell everything? My children, that younger demographic, order just about everything from Amazon, deliveries almost daily to their doors. Encouraged by them I even bought a few Amazon stock shares. They are up 50% from when I bought them a year ago.
You definitely want your Amazon site to point to your own website -- but there is a lot to look at here and learn. Its been a month now since it launched. It will be interesting to watch.
I sell Ceramic Judaica on Etsy. There are no catagories on Amazon that would make it easy to search for my work. I looked at the site when it went live yesterday, & I thought the work there looked very slick & production. I will not be joining.
I have been on Etsy since January. I have had multiple sales each month since opening my shop. There has been only 1 month with no sales, March. I was hesitant to try Etsy, and did not pursue it for over a year of being a craftsperson. My dh was the one to suggest it one evening in January. I got started that evening, setting up my shop and adding products. I am not making millions like the Birds Nest shop, who purportedly is getting stuff from China. There has been big write ups about the lady if you chose to read up on it. So Etsy is not perfect either. But I am reaching customers I would have never encountered. This is because most of my orders have gone out of state, way out of state, even to Hawaii, up the east coast, etc.
I will not give Amazon a try. I figure even if it works out in the end that there are a lot of bugs to work out. Maybe later after I see how some of my friends at craft group do. Several of them have signed up. A few are moving forward full speed ahead, some at balking and running, some are moving forward slowly. They are giving honest accounts of what the process is like and how they feel so I am trusting what they are finding.
BTW, I am not against Amazon for selling more than books. They are not the only business to evolve and change. I am selling additional products than coasters though that is all I started with. Aren't some of the others here evolving in their business?
Amazon is a world-wide marketplace for everything! I bought brake parts on Amazon that were significantly less expensive than the same thing at the auto parts store. For whatever I need, I look at Amazon, read the reviews, check the originator website and ebay and then buy wherever the price is lowest. Buyers today are more and more often looking at the web instead of using their feet because it's both time and cost effective. A lady in a doctor's waiting room told me that she only uses her bank card to get cash at her bank's ATM. This lady, while very sweet, is a dinosaur in terms of the modern shopper. Shoppers in your demographic do everything online, and even though I'm probably as old as that sweet dinosaur, if I had time to make enough product, I would definitely sign on for Amazon Handmade. The exposure alone would be worth the price of a ticket.
Interesting...yes, I was surprised to learn recently that you could buy shoes and tea from Amazon...I thought they just sold books. Now, competing with Etsy...do we really need this? I gave up on Etsy because there was just too much competition, maybe they'll lose some of their business to Amazon now...it'll be fascinating to see if this flies.
It is a little irritating that Amazon thinks they have to have a corner on selling everything. They used to sell basically books. Now they are selling it all. And now they want your art work.
Is anyone here planning on seeing this through?
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