{"id":284,"date":"2005-10-13T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T23:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2005-12-23T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T02:03:09","slug":"ebay-meet-etsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/13\/ebay-meet-etsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebay, Meet Etsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that if you wanted to sell your hand crafts online, only a couple of real options were available: e-commerce by yourself (or through Yahoo Store), or say get cozy with eBay (or other garden variety of auction sites). Then there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\" target=\"_blank\">Craigslist<\/a>. Thankfully, now there&#8217;s a new self-serving online service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Etsy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Etsy is like a flea market where hand craft sellers can list their items for buyers to browse and purchase. It has a few very cool and innovative search tools: search by color, geographic location, time posted and of course, good old categories. <\/p>\n<p>Search by locale<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/etsy_map.png\" width=\"269\" height=\"217\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Etsy search by locale\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Search by color<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/etsy_color.png\" width=\"271\" height=\"221\" class=\"centered\" lt=\"Etsy search by color\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The service is very clearly targeted at eBay with simplified listing process and lower fee structures. Unfortunately it suffers lack of marketing and hype. But it shows a lot of potentials as an alternative to eBay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that if you wanted to sell your hand crafts online, only a couple of real options were available: e-commerce by yourself (or through Yahoo Store), or say get cozy with eBay (or other garden variety of auction sites). Then there was Craigslist. Thankfully, now there&#8217;s a new self-serving online service called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/13\/ebay-meet-etsy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ebay, Meet Etsy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-no-logo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-4A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}