dobatseatcats...exactly!!!  plus if you're literally making everything by hand can you imagine what price you'd have to put on items?  not everyone wants to pay tons of money for an item of jewellery, and not everyone likes the look of them. 

I personally used to buy similar things to the style i have in my store now.  thats what i like and where my creativity leads me...and some people like it and appreciate it and those who dont, dont have to look at my store!!

urgh!

Positive energy is crucial for success. No matter what time you go on the forums there is always a thread like "have you noticed how bad views are?" And similar posts. That is the last thing that we need to focus on. Sometimes I think folks want to discourage others intentionally and they also love to complain about etsy. Compared to ebay, etsy is heaven!

That is one reason that I am keeping my fingers crossed that this team will stay positive and focus on the ways we can support each other and help to grow each others businesses.

I'm really tired of the forums .  Seems they're all quite negative and not a good place to be hanging out at all.  I seem to keep getting caught up in the find the resellers forum.  And I'm now at the point that it's up to etsy to go find them and get them removed, I'm way too busy with other things to get invlved in that crap.  I like it here because we all seem to just enjoy what we're doing and want to share it.  I know I much prefer to go make sawdust than sit here and watch them all complain about things they can't change.  Welcome home to the D List!!!!!