Congrats on having 8k in sales on MakerPlace. My sales were about $100 from one item that sells over and over.
Marilyn
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Makerplace sent ME instructions which I sent to him (itās an older man, no offense to men but that makes it even worse). He says it wonāt work. So now Iāve forwarded his email to Makerplace to ask them to PLEASE help me with this. Good grief.
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Itās only 119 orders. Unfortunately Iād say 80% of my sales are larger items when Michaels has their big promotions. Which I HATE but thatās their business model. So unless they keep doing those, it wonāt be as much going forward. Especially if I have that bit 2 rating on there.
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Did anybody receive āMakerPlace Seller Saturdayā email today (1/4)? Also that email on 12/21 and 12/28?
The last one I received was on 12/14.
Also, did anybody receive the āA payment to you has been processedā email from Michaels after the payment transferred on 12/29 or 12/30?
I did received one of those email on 12/17 for the Payment that was transferred on 12/15 or 12/16, but not for the payment transfer on 12/29 or 12/30.
Just wondering whether itās because MP didnāt sent them or itās just me no longer receiving them.
The last seller related email I received from Michaels was on 12/20, telling us how to contact customer when they disabled the Message function. The emails to me seems to have stopped right after the MP Message fiasco that included everybodyās email address in the message, and they disabled the whole messaging function. Wonder if that has anything to do with me (or maybe others too) no longer receiving those emails?
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nope
same here.
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I didnāt receive it, either.
I finally sold something last week. Itās supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Weāll see how long it takes them to pay it out. Iāve read some posts where people are still waiting to be paid past their scheduled date
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If this is your first sale on MP, congrats and hope sales continues for you.
Personally I kind of gave up on MP, even with Michaels giving all the extra discounts out of their own pocket, I only had 2 sales during the holiday and thatās also the only 2 sale in 6 months. My items that sells well on Amazon, doesnāt on MP. Itās either a total different kind of customer base or the public just not able to see our things easily. 
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Yes, it took a bid getting use to MPās way of payout to sellers, but I think at this point, it is working as they described.
For my last 2 orders, the payout were on time, they were just a little over 2 weeks from order date to Payout date. The amount the days it took kind of depends on the delivery of the order.
Look under āFinancesā > āOverviewā, the payment first show up in āFloating balanceā, then 14 days after delivery of the order, that amount moves into āAvailable Balanceā for payout, which happens each Sunday or Monday.
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Thanks! Yes, it was my first sale. Ironically, it was a Christmas item that sold after Christmas and was not on sale. I think I signed up with Michaels back in June.
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did you report these? Or is it too much whack-a-mole?
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No I did not on this particular one because while this image was on the Jewelry category page, it does not link to a seller and I have not looked further. I did stumble onto this seller who sells jewelry but apparently also āHandmadeā sweaters that are obviously made by another brandā¦Vila.
And this one who appears to be holding a low rent Poshmark garage sale
Makerplace is turning into a shitshow
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Sales on Michaelās have tanked. I know there is a lot going on in regards to low sales right now but I noticed today they have a āTop Ratedā category which only features products/shops that have a 5 star rating. So there are shops with ONE listing that had a 5 star review for a total shop review of ONE. Now there are plenty of shops with a single product that has many 5 star reviews but if the shop total average is not 5 stars, it will never be in this āTop Ratedā category. 
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Yup. Iām screwed because Michaels refuses to remove the 2* my customer left and canāt fix. They left me a 5* to replace it, but that still leaves me at 4. Iāve tried about 8 times to get Michaels to remove it - even sending them screenshots of the customerās reviews saying they want to delete it. But nope, they wonāt.
And itās a shame - I was selling higher-priced things there and Michaels was making some money off me. But not anymore. 
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I set my makerplace on vacation but I need to just cancel and shut it down as Iām most likely going to take a long break from my business all together. (I got a lot of stress and anxiety lately with both my business (supplier and usps issues) and one of my kids needing reoccurring eye injections/laser surgery every 6 weeks).
So for Makerplace:
The seo is terrible and search is pretty much broken. There doesnāt seem to be a way to rank in Makerplace. Itās not done by relevancy, or most recent or by sales. I have old items that out rank items that have had many sales. Itās better for me to drive traffic to Etsy because then items that sell appear higher in Etsy search results. Iād rather rank higher in search results then save whatever it is the affiliate fee is for Makerplace.
They are really pushing influencer and affiliate tracking which is not really a good way to grow a business as people will just take their influence elsewhere. If you have a huge social media following and save money selling on Makerplace then I guess itās āworking as intendedā, but those kinds of sellers are going to point their traffic somewhere else if it means saving more money in the long term.
Makerplace thinks that people will come to makerplace and stay at makerplace but since you canāt find anything in makerplace there is no reason a buyer needs to revisit Makerplace. I am also finding that a lot of these people who have high counts on social media that Makerplace is promoting are mostly just importing stuff and is not actually handmade. At first I was keeping track of names and shops but realized that it was useless.
I was signed up to do an event in store but anxiety took over when I realized that if people ask me how Iām doing in makerplace I really canāt lie and tell them how great it is because itās not a good marketplace. I havenāt had a sale since December. My Etsy shop sales in January and February were double that of my December salesā¦.so once again itās not me, itās the marketplace. So I canceled the event and put my shop on vacation mode.
I lurk a lot on the Michaelās subreddit and the stuff I read about how things are being ran in store and how employees feel is very reminiscent of what I was reading last year in Joanns subreddit and we all know whatās happened with Joanns. I know there was a new ceo as well for Michaelās and Iām not sure how he has much to do with Makerplace. It does seem like they have also lost focus on having people teach classes and sell supplies. I think originally they really wanted to boost their own supply selling but most people who run a handmade business donāt source supplies from Michaelās 
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I hope all gets worked out and mended 
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I was doing OK, but I havenāt had a sale there since mid-December. My shop shows ONE 5-star rating, but obviously that hasnāt helped.
All of the above. Since recent sales have been non-existent, Iāve been pretty much ignoring my shop AND social media. However, I just added 5 new listings in response to their call for āwestern glamā. Whether I make it to Pinterest remains to be seen.
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I feel like all the Pinterest stuff is kind of outdated though right? Like no one I know uses Pinterest anymore and a lot of my pins Iāve saved over the years have disappeared. It seems like a lot of it has been taken over by AI and bots. I feel like a lot of these social media platforms if you donāt get in while itās still in the young growing stages that itās hard to really gain any sort of following.
If you have quality products and reputation then you shouldnāt even really need Social Media or advertising. I think Makerplace really bungled it in the beginning when there was all the people saying you were giving up all your rights in their terms of service. Etsy was slow to start too when it opened and they had so many community aspects that brought crafters together like the chat rooms and showcasing recently sold and recently listed along with the weekly featured seller. Letting the community work together to chose what appeared on the front page also was very important. I think once Etsy eliminated a lot of the people first community stuff is when they went downhill and Makerplace really should have focused on what made Etsy great that Etsy got rid of. All they have ran on is āwe are better then Etsyā exceptā¦your not lol.
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I have been doing the same thing, didnāt even bother to sign-in to the dashboard, thinking if I have a sale, Iāll get an email notice.
Well, I did signed in today, and saw this notice:
Guess if I had any sale, I might have not known about it. Wonder what will happen if you have a sale on MP and donāt know about it and donāt fulfill it? Did it just fall off your āOrderā list?
Iām pretty sure I didnāt get any sales.
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I want to close my store on Michaels MakerPlace, but I canāt figure out how. All I could find was the vacation mode for max 6 months, but no other way to just close the account. Do you guys know? Thanks.
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You have to fill out a support request and it takes a few days.
They suggested that I just switch from the professional account to basic and edit my inventory.
I asked if there was a way to mass deactivate since I have 500 listings, but there isnāt. I would have to go in and edit every listing.
So I told them to just close it. It took them a few days. They keep sending me follow-up emails asking for my opinion and I havenāt bothered to sit down and tell them everything wrong since I feel like Iāve been pretty vocal here, the Facebook group, and numerous support requests since they opened that didnāt seem to go anywhere.
If people can make it work for them Iām glad! Itās just too many headaches for me to āsave money on feesā.
The 6 months max for vacation must be new. When I was putting my shop in vacation mode it would only let me do 30 days. I probably maybe would have chosen 6 months to not actually close my shop, but at this point I am done so itās water under the bridge.
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