Is anyone selling on goimagine? If so, how has it been for you? I ended up over there because Amazon was annoying me and I didn’t want to start on Etsy. I’ve been over there for almost 2 years and have only made 2 sales. Both have been this year and about 6 months apart. They have potential. I want them to succeed and I hope they do succeed, but I don’t know. I don’t know how they can survive without investors…one indication being that they just lowered donating 100% of their profits to charity to 2% and it’s been 5 years since they started.
I had a couple things listed over there for about a year. No sales.
Decided I was tired of paying the $2.50/month fee with really no hint of ever making a sale.
That’s how I ended up over there. I was trying to find other handmade marketplaces that weren’t Etsy and paid the sales tax. I have a referral code you can use to try it for free for a month, although I do think you still have to give them your cc regardless.
I will say that Makerplace probably gets way more traffic than goimagine, which is probably most sellers main complaint–no traffic. They do submit to google shopping and I have found my stuff on google, so they do advertise.
The FB group and support are wonderful! The lack of sales aren’t, but it doesn’t hurt to try. You definitely have to drive your own traffic, which I’m very lazy about doing.
I have the $10 Mosaic plan and I also have my own domain through them. The upside to that is that when someone clicks on your listing, they will only see your products. I’ll see how Q4 goes, and then re-evaluate. At least on MakerPlace, it doesn’t cost me not to make any sales! haha.
I hopped over to their website to read more about this, as that was the first I’ve heard that they had changed this. It did used to say “100% of profits” which sounds awesome, but is actually very vague–we all know profits are way less than revenue. Changing it to say that they donate “2% of every purchase to a children’s charity” is more concrete and less ambiguous from a buyer’s perspective I would think. It’s been a while since I left that marketplace, but it looks like their current commission is 5%. When you factor in the cost of running the site, I think 2% donated is pretty generous.
I had started a shop over on Goimagine when they first started. I needed to take a leave to have a baby and I had emailed to ask if I could put my shop on pause (without paying the monthly fee) and they misunderstood my request and deleted my shop. I haven’t tried reopening because I’ve been too busy with mostly Amazon. I don’t have any hard feelings, and I hope they succeed.
Oh, no! That stinks! My understanding is that you can cancel your subscription but all your listings will still be there for a year in case you want to come back. The biggest complaint is that they advertise to sellers (I’ve only seen FB ads) and not buyers (the do submit to Google). They say they do that because the buyers looking say they can’t find what they are looking for because there aren’t enough sellers. However, sellers leave because they don’t aren’t getting any sales. I also think a lot of sellers sign up thinking it’s going to be like Etsy in volume and it’s not. I’m so torn about staying there.