u/Successful-Train-259

Well I have finally had it with Etsy. 3 months, over $2 grand in revenue, walked away with $700 and now they started flagging my listings for seller violations. No reason why, no ability to appeal, just says "we are working to implement this feature". Contacted customer service, they had no idea why and said it needed to be escalated to a review team, total waste of time.

Decided to finally call it quits and closed the shop. Going to focus more of my energy into my own Shopify web store and leasing a local spots at flea markets. I got a decent amount of traffic on Etsy but at the expense of ridiculous fees and being at the mercy of a company that has zero care about the people that make them money. I had a perfect 5 star rating and 100% on time with shipping and communication over 105 transactions. Absolutely crazy.

Wondering what it was that got delisted? A handmade piggy bank made from real wood that was made to order. Don't ask me how it violated seller policy because I couldn't tell you.

So I picked up a Kobra X after my initial issues with Anycubic back during it's release. Shipping was fast, came in 2 days and I have to say I am pleasantly surprised with how it prints. Very clean quality.

HOWEVER... Anycubic slicer next is absolutely HORRIBLE. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to run this old of a version of orca slicer but it is absolute trash.

Second and probably my biggest gripe is that the whole reason I bought this printer was because of the quick swap nozzles so I can quickly go back and forth between 0.25 and 0.4 for a lot of the small work my snapmaker u1's wont do. Welp, that was a complete waste. Sure you can swap the nozzle real quick, but a 35 minute recalibration after every nozzle swap? Are you kidding me? Why did they even bother to design the quick swapping nozzle system in the first place if it's still gonna take 45 minutes to swap a nozzle because of software?

Sadly, I was planning on buying two more for the print farm I am setting up but I won't be doing that because of these issues. Solid design, great price, but these are two issues I unfortunately cannot overlook.

This is something that I was not fully aware of when I first signed up for Etsy two months ago, but their "Etsy Ads" are atrocious. In that time I have made close to $1000 in sales on small items and they took $327 dollars in marketing fees and $93 dollars in Etsy fees. Damn near eating up almost my entire profit which makes it damn near impossible to continue producing new items because I need that money which they are withholding for 3 months. /end rant