Posted on 09/21/2020 10:08:39 AM PDT by conservative98
To make a fortune selling masks on Etsy, you needed three things. First, you needed to be familiar with the garment industry — ideally, already working in it. Second, you needed to be in or around Los Angeles. (Sorry, New Yorkers.) And third, you needed energy, because shipping tens of thousands of masks a month with a tiny crew meant working late into the night, then getting up early the next morning to do it all again, sometimes, while caring for kids in between.
For those who went all in, the effort was worth it: some mom-and-pop Etsy shops became big businesses overnight, doing in excess of $1 million in mask sales since the beginning of the pandemic.
“It’s been a question of ‘When is it gonna end?’ When is it gonna end?’” said one larger seller, who asked to remain anonymous so their friends and family wouldn’t know how much money they made. “And you’re put in this peculiar position. Because now I find myself looking at pandemic news, and it’s kind of... if the cases go down, mask sales go down.”
ONE SELLER SAID THEY MADE $4.1 MILLION ACROSS THREE STORES
Between April and June, shoppers purchased $346 million worth of masks from Etsy stores, more than 5 percent of which would be pocketed by Etsy itself. It was an enormous surge for the site. Masks accounted for more than one out of every 10 dollars spent on the platform that quarter. For sellers, it was also a huge opportunity: a lucrative new market that existing shops hadn’t cornered. There was money to be made for anyone who wanted it — and for those who already knew the ins and outs of manufacturing, there was a lot of it.
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Do they have any that say “F*CK YOU, DR. FAUCI”?
I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I’m a huge proponent of mom-and-pop operations. On the other hand, anything that caters to the mask cult is to be avoided, IMHO.
Where does one draw the line?
Admire their hard work and the money they made.
I have 1 Trump mask and 1 This Mak is Worthless.
Seldom wear either one.
Oh I have to get one of those. Thanks!
People on here are always asking who is making money from masks - here is one report - millions being made and this is just on one site.
For Etsy’s biggest mask shops, those numbers are orders of magnitude larger. One apparel company sold around 500,000 fabric masks across three Etsy stores, bringing in more than $4.1 million in sales between April and mid-September. The owner, who asked to remain anonymous to hide their businesses’ financial information from family, said it was a more than 2,000 percent increase over the shops’ sales for the entirety of 2019.
Another major seller, Charlette Chang, sold more than 200,000 fabric masks through her store, DoubleJoyDesigns, raking in around $1.5 million in sales. She had only been on Etsy for a matter of months before the pandemic hit, having started a T-shirt shop in September 2019. That put her in just the right position, though — she was already working with a factory to make clothing, so she directed them to make masks instead.
There is always money to be made somehow
They are all supposed to be handmade on Etsy who made 500,000 masks by hand? What a farce
This is the protest mask I bought.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/850493804/colorful-muted-cotton-crochet-face-mask?ref=shop_home_active_14
Saw a teen with F*CK BIDEN written in marker on the mask he was wearing a couple of weeks ago.
Interesting.
From the reviews: “Sweet Mask! These are definitely the best masks out there. And it makes folks wearing their face socks think twice.”
Exactly. You or your company is supposed to make them yourself, not hire a third party company in LA and then resell them.
Capitalism brother! These people saw a demand and figured out a way to meet it. Good on them!
They may be good people, but they got nothing from me.
I wear a scarf I have that has red stripes and white stars on navy blue.
I had an IT prof who used the word FANAFI...OR CANAFI.
Find a need and fill it or create a need and fill it.
Well, you’ve got a point there .... so are you saying that if I create a bunch of Fauci toilet paper, I’ll be sitting pretty financially? :-)
(Never mind, I have a feeling that’s already been done. But it’s a nice thought!)
The folks I know have been selling them for 5 to 10 bucks. I have a hard time conceptualizing $4.1 million 10 bucks at a time. Maybe they’re selling for more.
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