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elisemThe boycott-that-they-keep-calling-a-strike is scheduled to start tomorrow, April 11, and run through April 18.
This is not something I feel I should do, because I have a previous commitment to be Artist Guest of Honor at Minicon on the 15-17. I am attending virtually, so the access to my work is through my Etsy shop, other than a few special pieces that a friend (Shawna Brown, whose work you may have seen at WisCon) will be displaying for me at her table. My art might get talked about in a panel or two, and Etsy is where people can see a hundred-some examples of it, and it does not seem right to take my work offline with no warning while the convention is happening.
Some of you know my take on this whole Etsy thing, which starts with "But we're customers of Etsy, not employees, so what you're proposing to do is a boycott rather than a strike," takes a ride through "they're increasing sellers fees from 5% to 6.5%, and while yes that is technically a 30% increase, it feels a tad misleading to put it that way" and the neighboring land of "Consignment shops were taking 50% or more last time I checked them out, so it's hard for me to get upset about fees under 7%" and "Etsy is still lower cost than most other online options," and winds up in the hinterlands of grumpiness with me muttering about labor action cosplay. I do in fact agree with "they should live up to the TOS and crack down on resellers" and "the mandatory Offsite Ads program and its 12-15% fees should not be imposed upon us without our consent," and so forth. I encourage people to take what action they feel is right. But if one more person exhorts me "Don't Cross the Picket Line!" about this thing, I am gonna make up some new verses for "Put It On the Ground," so help me Eugene V. Debs and Festus Claudius McKay.
tl;dr My shop will be open this week, including this coming weekend when I am Artist Guest of Honor at Minicon.
P.S. Arrangements have been made to bring purchases to the hotel the next day, if you buy something on Friday or Saturday, so you can pick them up there if you like. Or just have me ship them as usual, if that's better logistically.
P.P.S. There is traditionally a Sunday sale in the convention dealers' room, which I like calling the "Please Don't Make Me Pack This and Carry It Back Home" Sale. While that particular reason isn't in play for a virtual appearance, I'll probably do some kind of Sunday sale just for nostalgia's sake and because it's fun. You know how I get.
This is not something I feel I should do, because I have a previous commitment to be Artist Guest of Honor at Minicon on the 15-17. I am attending virtually, so the access to my work is through my Etsy shop, other than a few special pieces that a friend (Shawna Brown, whose work you may have seen at WisCon) will be displaying for me at her table. My art might get talked about in a panel or two, and Etsy is where people can see a hundred-some examples of it, and it does not seem right to take my work offline with no warning while the convention is happening.
Some of you know my take on this whole Etsy thing, which starts with "But we're customers of Etsy, not employees, so what you're proposing to do is a boycott rather than a strike," takes a ride through "they're increasing sellers fees from 5% to 6.5%, and while yes that is technically a 30% increase, it feels a tad misleading to put it that way" and the neighboring land of "Consignment shops were taking 50% or more last time I checked them out, so it's hard for me to get upset about fees under 7%" and "Etsy is still lower cost than most other online options," and winds up in the hinterlands of grumpiness with me muttering about labor action cosplay. I do in fact agree with "they should live up to the TOS and crack down on resellers" and "the mandatory Offsite Ads program and its 12-15% fees should not be imposed upon us without our consent," and so forth. I encourage people to take what action they feel is right. But if one more person exhorts me "Don't Cross the Picket Line!" about this thing, I am gonna make up some new verses for "Put It On the Ground," so help me Eugene V. Debs and Festus Claudius McKay.
tl;dr My shop will be open this week, including this coming weekend when I am Artist Guest of Honor at Minicon.
P.S. Arrangements have been made to bring purchases to the hotel the next day, if you buy something on Friday or Saturday, so you can pick them up there if you like. Or just have me ship them as usual, if that's better logistically.
P.P.S. There is traditionally a Sunday sale in the convention dealers' room, which I like calling the "Please Don't Make Me Pack This and Carry It Back Home" Sale. While that particular reason isn't in play for a virtual appearance, I'll probably do some kind of Sunday sale just for nostalgia's sake and because it's fun. You know how I get.
