Progress. . .perhaps

 

I have been trying not to think about the fact that I will likely lose my "star seller" badge next month but with the stupid emails and permanent reminder on my dashboard every time I log into etsy, it's kind of hard not to think about. 😕  

There is a survey link at the bottom of the star seller page and I have taken it before but I decided to take it again. . . see I am still bothered by the phraseology of etsy's original spin on this program trying to say how it was all "within the seller's control".  I have said all along that virtually none of the criteria are within my control, yes I control how long it takes me to respond to a message but I cannot control when people message my shop.  Yes, I control when I ship my packages and to use tracking but I cannot control when people order or how much they order.  😒  Trust me I am a total "control enthusiast" and I know when I am not in control. So I filled out their survey again and wrote paragraphs explaining how wrong I think it is to be punished for not receiving a bunch of messages, like I'm sorry my descriptions and photos are so good that I don't get a dozen dumb "how long is this necklace" type of questions.  

I think what I wrote finally got through to someone because I noticed a change on my star seller page this morning.  Now, all I did was suggest that I could delete all the measurements and material info from my listings and force shoppers to message my shop if messages were so important to etsy's program. 😏  Now the metric for messages has a note under it that says it doesn't count since I didn't have any messages to respond to, which is better than the "Not there yet" note. 

So at least it won't be the stupid lack of messages that costs me my badge, I'm just short on the orders and $$$ requirements. Maybe in the next 10 days I'll get a big enough order or maybe more than 1. . .what miracles happen right?!  😁😂😅😇  

On a more personal note I'm feeling incredibly lazy and demotivated the last week or so, not sure if it is end of market season exhaustion, early onset S.A.D. due to the weather, the dental issue that has flared up, oncoming depression, or a combination of all of the above.  I have been fighting and forcing myself to work on listings, update tags for holidays, pre-schedule my sales, but what I really need to do is a massive photo shoot so that I can add a bunch of listings to goimagine.com I have a new pattern of stretchmaille bracelets, I have new barrettes, I need to get more art listed and wire trees too.  Unfortunately, it seems that any day I feel up to it the weather is all wrong and the lighting is bad.  😕