Big Cartel Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• A man offers you $10,000 USD if you deliver fake cocaine to the cartel and promises lifetime protection if you succeed. Do you take this offer?

  Yep. I would get a bag of flour, put a sticky note on it that says “Cocaine” w/ a QR code to this video. Then deliver it to big cartel’s offices. Source: 10 months ago

• GoDaddy VS Squarespace

  If you only sell a handful of products I can recommend using the free version of bigcartel.com. It's specifically made for selling arts and crafts, trinklets, etc. You can even set up a free custom domain on the free plan. Source: about 1 year ago

• my shop is on strike, but I've been thinking of leaving Etsy for awhile. Anyone have any alternatives?

  I don't think there's any marketplaces for handmade products (apart from Amazon Handmade) but if you want to have a shopping cart I recommend Big Cartel. It's remotely hosted (not self hosted) and it's designed for unsigned and independent creators (rather than department stores with thousands of products and categories). Yhey are targeting the lower-tier merchants rather than the middle tier and upper tier. It's... Source: about 2 years ago

• Looking for website suggestions for a boutique.

  If you haven't already I recommend you check out bigcartel.com (not affiliated in any way). They're pretty easy to setup in my experience and their target audience is exactly those selling shirts, arts, and crafts etc. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's an easy to use website builder that would let me start selling prints?

  You might look into Saatchiart.com and bigcartel.com; both sites where you can sell prints, but don't need to build your own web page. Source: over 2 years ago

• How should my sister sell her artwork?

  If something like Etsy would stress her out (it's a very competitive marketplace and Etsy generally doesn't care about the seller), opening something like a Big Cartel paired with an Instagram account could be a lot more manageable. A Big Cartel is free for five products and then only 10 USD a month for 50 products. Source: almost 3 years ago

• The world outside of Etsy AKA how do I diversify?

  Most importantly, work for yourself. Host your own shop on a website! The easiest method is opening up a Big Cartel site. I love them because you can open a small shop completely for free (at yourshop.bigcartel.com) with five products and see how you like it. Source: almost 3 years ago