Hate the red prices looks like a bargain basement.
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Whatever the search a printed mug is the answer 
I think Folksy is now called “Mugs are Us”
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Thank you, this was the first time I actually laughed since the “perfect match” search engine went live… I am very tempted of putting that on a mug now
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Relieved it is sorted as I use my FB page.
Certainly made me wonder who I have upset that they nastily hit my report button. Won’t work again if anyone tries it as I have been chatting with their helpful Meta support ,
and I have quite obviously never posted anything at all wrong or against any rule on my page.
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Well I am pleased to hear you are a model student Joy 
I didnt even know we coùld chat with a real person on facebook, that is good to know, especially if sent to the naughty corner like you were.
I wonder if it has been done in error I’ve nearly clicked it a few times…no it wasn’t me but might be easily done especially when using a small screen on a phone.
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we should all have one…mugs really are everywhere.
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After yesterday’s discussion on Bum Bags i wonder if we should all buy pairs of naughty knickers with it on too 
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Got plenty of iron-vinyl and a couple of heat presses, just let me know your sizes and I’ll take care of the rest… plenty of knickers on a-z, I’ll do you a nice decorative font so you can show it off.. come on ladies, put your orders in
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Is this why I have temporarily untracked on search terms in ststs?
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Meant to be stats!
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If you want to edit a comment you have made you can hit the littlle edit pencil underneath and edit it without having to do a separate new reply.
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Yes, sorry!
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Dont need a sorry was just trying to help xxxxx
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I once had a mug with “Everyone Loves a Mug” design. 
A comment via a non seller.
I was at my friend’s last night and showed her the search on her tablet. She’s not terribly au fait with her tablet but is in the Folksy buyer age group so that will be typical of many. Pretty sure that the %age of totally tech savvy under 35 or even 40 year old buyers on here is very low.
Now would be an interesting stat from Folksy in our ’ ‘monthly’ updates . A break down by age group .
She couldn’t find the Search at all to start with. It was so tiny, squished up there above all the Easter offerings.
Sadly we didn’t get far with the search as I suggested she start by looking for some Suncatchers … And she was presented with so many of my lovely creations that she decided to spend the rest of the time looking at them.
She declined to hit the Feedback button, well she didn’t notice it, as not something she would ever do when on a shopping platform .. so goodness knows how many of our customers are giving feedback for Folksy to ‘Analyse’. I would be most interested in the conversion rate of that button
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I can honestly tell you that none of my regular customers will ever hit the feedback button because they come direct to my shop. As a customer of many online shops myself I would NEVER choose to give feedback on a site . The only feedback I ever give is for reviews of handmade items on Folksy and small shops on ebay. Not many people will do it voluntarily so would need to be prompted, if they had received an email asking for feedback then a few may have done, nobody will even notice the feedback button or know what it is for. It’s been a waste of time, I suspect the majority of feedback will be from Folksy sellers whether signed in to their account or not because every time i come onto my account I have to sign in as it drops off continuously. I don’t understand this waiting to collect feedback from buyers if they have not been asked to give any.
Two weeks almost now since the search worked for many of us, we have become blind to potential buyers I would be more interrsted to see how much it has impacted on sales although we won’t really get a true representation site wide from that time. I havn’t had any orders other than 2 from buyers that come direct to my shop and who follow me on socials. Our stats are going to be up because we have spent time searching for different items which we wouldn’t normally do and if we wern’t signed in that would go as non Folksy searches.
I am baffled as to why Folksy needed to wait for customer feedback for 2 weeks when it was apparent on day one that it was completely messed up. How much longer are we going to have to sit and wait because this is definately going to impact on our shops and sales.
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In fact that Feedback button doesnt even say what you are supposed to be leaving feedback on unless you take the trouble to bother hitting it. !
As a customer who wants to leave feedback on a wonderful Folksy purchase and failing to find how to do that (and by the time the promting email to do that has arrived i have given up and ‘moved on’) I would be drawn to that button as the way i can do that… Only to find it is nothing to do with actual sale feedback at all.
Waste of space on the page as far as i can see.
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Absolutely that’s what I meant, that feedback button doesn’t explain what it is for and customers are only interested in giving reviews for purchases they have made, I leave reviews on every purchase of handmade as I know how much it means to sellers to receive it but I’ve never given feedback on a website for the site itself other than Folksy.
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If it results in more traffic and sales i wouldn’t be worried about any of it. But sadly not. My stats are bad. No click through for 7 days and no events for 30 days. I’ve now removed my links from SM to other platforms I’m on. I’ve not many listings atm now. Probably a temp thing but will see. I always come back at some point.
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You are absolutely right. The longer this goes on unresolved, the longer I will sit on the products I’m waiting to list and the longer I’ll be diverting my social media links elsewhere.
I have never offered feedback on a website before in my life and I wouldn’t know what the feedback button was for either in this case. I would assume it related to purchases.
Most people don’t give a monkeys about offering feedback on a website. If they don’t have a good experience, they just won’t come back!
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