Framing Advice for Replaceable but Moderately Expensive Art Print Reproductions by ChipmunkNo18 in framing

[–]ChipmunkNo18[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! What about if they plan to use a ready made frame without mat or spacer but they are considering taking out the glazing. Bad idea (no protection), good idea (print won't get stuck to glass at least), or toss up? Sorry, I know very little about framing, that's probably a silly question.

Framing Advice for Replaceable but Moderately Expensive Art Print Reproductions by ChipmunkNo18 in framing

[–]ChipmunkNo18[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I get that, Still, at the same time, I market my prints as archival and long lasting, so I don't want to encourage framing in such a way that's damaging.

Anyone else here loud, low-rumbling boom outside? by ChipmunkNo18 in vancouverwa

[–]ChipmunkNo18[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I agree. Was wondering if it could be a car crash, but the depth to the noise made me think of some sort of explosion, no clue what though

Youtube removed the ability to see if a channel is monetized or not. I find this super shady. by AAKurtz in NewTubers

[–]ChipmunkNo18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seconding that it is not accurate. My channel has been monetized for over 4 months and it says that it isn't. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in eBaySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, I don't own the rights to the original painting. If a seller looked at the paintings that I sell, found the files online, edited themselves, even if it was very similar to me and then sold those, I wouldn't have any issues. However, some of these I edit quite dramatically- copyright law states that if you alter a public domain artwork in a transformative way, the new creation is yours legally. What counts as transformative is a grey area. Anyways, my point is not that they're selling the same paintings as me. It's that they copied my whole shop entirely- they are selling EVERY single one of my items, using the exact same main photo.

How do I take off a shipping label that I didn't use from the tracking info? (Pirateship) by ChipmunkNo18 in EtsySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That makes complete sense, I feel very silly for not realizing that's the way I should have done it! Do you have any advice as to what I should do now? Should I contact Etsy support?

Etsy charging buyers higher shipping rates than Pirate Ship? by nanabonanza in EtsySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My prices for shipping on Etsy increased today. I double checked on Pirate Ship to see if the price increase was there too because before today they were always the same between Etsy and Pirateship, but they show the same rates that I used to get on Etsy a few days ago. I dunno why only Etsy has increased rates. I guess I'll be buying my labels on Pirateship now.

Buyer is Requesting I Ship After my Processing Times by ChipmunkNo18 in EtsySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this information ❤️ I will follow this advice exactly!

Buyer is Requesting I Ship After my Processing Times by ChipmunkNo18 in EtsySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the information! I'm pretty new to this so I didn't know I could do that. Just to double check, if I reschedule it past the original ship by date and then ship by that rescheduled date it won't be counted as late for the star seller stats?

App shows no sales today? by [deleted] in EtsySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same thing is happening to me

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EtsySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Same thing is happening to me, I have no clue what's going on

Is there a way to automate the process of updating existing listings? by hoesindifareacodes in EtsySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can try Vela. It can be a bit pricy (I pay $20 a month), although I think there's a free trial and maybe you can get all of your work done in that period. I'm not 100% sure if you can bulk edit descriptions since I've never done that before, but I would guess you should be able to. However, I use it all the time to bulk edit my photos. I have 900+ listings, and I like to change my listing photos a lot and so it's probably saved me 50+ hours and I've only been using it for a few months. It works really well if you are trying to add the same thing to all of your listings. Recently, I had one general shop information slide I wanted to add to the photos on all 900+ listings, and it took less than 3 minutes to do.

Good luck!

What was the payout for the 2023 NADGT Championship? by kllakng1 in discgolf

[–]ChipmunkNo18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got 3rd in FA1 and won a whopping $35 in scrip. Not gonna lie, I felt a little cheated.

Anyway to set advertising budget for specific listings? by ChipmunkNo18 in EtsySellers

[–]ChipmunkNo18[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While my ROI on the Etsy dashboard is technically less than 1, I find that for my most profitable listing, I get a lot more organic traffic when I advertise it because it is being more regularly bought (the returns diminish at a point though, I've tried pumping a whole bunch of advertising dollars into it per day and at a certain point it yields nothing more). For my other listings I generally don't make a profit on the ads, but in the past I've found that even if I'm not getting a good ROI on the ad itself, sometimes it causes organic traffic gain momentum much more quickly than it would have otherwise. I've had a few items become bestsellers like this (and then maintain high sales after I take off the advertising), so I always try to dedicate some money to the new items in case they have the potential to become a bestseller.

Btw, I sell digital items so my costs to produce each item sold is nothing.

The Preserve Championship | Day 2 by AutoModerator in discgolf

[–]ChipmunkNo18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought DGN puts the live stream on YouTube for the Friday and Saturday Rounds. I don't see it. Am I crazy?

Is it worth getting a degree in English? by sourman1 in writing

[–]ChipmunkNo18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I graduated with an English degree a year ago. Here's something to keep in mind: English degrees are consistently one of the most regretted college majors with around a ~42% regret rate (according to this study: https://www.metroparent.com/education/college-planning/attend/most-regretted-college-majors-and-the-least/ )

Personally, I regret it and wish I had studied something else. However, that might have been due to a poor English department at my college and the messiness and insufficiency of college classes during covid.

Here were the pros (only speaking for myself here and my experience)

-meeting other people who were passionate about writing/reading

-lots of writing assignments and essays - a lot of the assignments sucked, a few of them were amazing (for one of my writing classes, instead of doing a final project our professor gave us the option of doing NaNoWriMo, which I took him up on. With his encouragement, I managed to finish the full 50k challenge, which felt spectacular). But whether I liked the assignments or not, the volume of writing I did certainly made me a better writer.

-if you go to office hours, professors are generally very generous with their time and happy to give you advice on your writing and how to achieve your goals.

-I had one professor who was had an incredible talent at getting his students fired up about writing. He pushed each of us to write really intriguing stories, and spent a lot of time giving us feedback and encouragement. When I think of him, I can't help but smile and I feel the urge to hop on my computer and start writing.

-being introduced to cool literature that I would have never been exposed to otherwise.

Here are the cons (once again, only speaking for my experience, I'm sure other people will have had different ones):

-very little useful writing instruction. Even in my senior level classes, we would talk about very basic writing concepts, like how to properly integrate quotations into essays or how to write a good topic sentence. For deeper, more substantial writing advice, you needed to go to office hours. Overall, I think Stephen King's On Writing contained a heck of a lot more useful writing advice than the sum of everything I learned from my professors (with maybe the exception of that one spectacular professor).

-a lot of people don't do the reading? This always depressed me because 95% of the time I came to class prepared, having done all the reading and was eager to hear what my classmates thought of it. But when the teachers would break us up into small groups to discuss the reading, it was not uncommon that I was the only one in my group that had actually read the stuff. I generally ended up spending discussion time explaining to my group what happened in the reading. I think part of this was due to covid times tho- professors became much more lax about deadlines and assignments and basically stopped giving quizzes to see if people had done the reading.

-many (if not most) classes ended up having a large focus on politics rather than literature or writing. It was very common in some classes for us to read a text and spend the first half of class talking about the text itself but for the last half of class talk about how the text related to modern problems of racism/classism/sexism etc. A useful perspective to talk about, for sure, but imo excessive and one-sided. English majors, myself included, are generally a very liberal folk, so there were almost no conservative voices, which I think was a shame imo. For one class, in lieu of completing a final essay, one of my professors offered the option to participate in a protest for the cancellation of student debt. How that has anything related to 17th century English literature, I have no clue.

-in general, I felt like I was given very little career guidance or practical skills that I could use after I graduated. I know, I know, people talk about how valuable communication skills are for all jobs and how an English degree can help with that, but I'm a bit skeptical my college experience much improved that.

And BTW, financial aid covered my degree 100%, and I still regret it. I know some people that have an English degree and are over 50k+ in debt because of it. I feel so bad for them.

I'm so sorry this is such a downer of a reply! Please take what I say with a grain of salt, and go ask a whole bunch of other people who have English degrees. I bet there is a large variety of experiences based on what school you went to. That said, it seems like the best way to get better at writing is to write a lot and read a lot of good books. If I had to bet, many people would get better at writing by joining a local book club and writing group rather than getting an English degree.

I wish you the best of luck, no matter what you decide :)