Again, you are correct Joy. Folksy is not well known enough for people to even think of logging in. I will have to join all of the Social Media Sites and drive traffic to my shop myself. I was wondering if I should get my own website if I am going to promote, why not my own website with ZERO fees and commission…what do you think?
It does not suprise me that Folksy is not set up this way as this is not a site for mass production, which this sounds very like.
Please can @folksycontent look at this.
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I don’t think there’s anything in the rules which says a seller can only sell one thing at a time. This is a hand engraver, not mass produced exactly 
Says laser engraving using AI, not hand engraving in his bio, so could well be used for mass production, but not necessarily.
The way around listing for customers who want multiples and adding the correct postage is to have them contact you with their requirements, then put up a custom listing for them. This is quite easy to do.
Surely what he makes is no more mass production than an artist selling copies of their art as say Xmas cards where a customer might buy 1 2 or 10 of the same.
Greetings Deborah:
Thank you for your comment. I am an artist that creates my own images. I specialize in placing images of family members or pets on tile, wood or coasters. I do weddings where the Bride & Groom image is engraved into the wedding guest book.
If you made a silver broach that everybody loved, would it be mass production if you made multiple castings using the Lost Was Process.
I think you would agree that if somebody wanted a Grave-Stone image of their pet that died. Hand Carving it would be impossible, right as I use High Technology Engraving technology. If a seamstress made a great t-shirt from scratch, would it still be Hand Made if he/she used a sophisticated Sowing Machine
If you and others think that I am breaking the rules, kindly let me know and I will leave.
Kind regards, Paul
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Greeting Joy. I am an artist and make my own images, based around what the customer needs. I have done many different things, recently I did a Grave Stone for a pet dog that had died. The customer gave me a picture of the dog and I managed to duplicate it in Black Slate. The customer was so please she cried when I gave it to her…not what you think would be Mass Production.
If a seamstress makes a great T-shirt by hand and then purchases a Sewing Machine, would she be accused of using Mass Production? At what point of production does something become Mass Production and no longer Hand Crafted? If we push the material through the Printer or sewing machine, is it no longer Hand Crafted?
The comment was that I might use AI…what about artists that use AI to generate images that would be impossible for a human to create, do we ban these practices as well. Sorry…I could continue forever with so many examples, so I sill stop now.
I have enjoyed our conversations Joy, but I think this site is not for me…xx
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Paul The very best of luck with your engravings whereever you sell them. Joy xxx
Please don’t go Paul. I think there is more need to stop the bought in tat from Ali Express than your engraving. I reported a shop yesterday and every item was from Ali.
I use a sewing machine, have to hand cut the fabric, draft my own patterns with an element of hand sewing , also use an embroidery machine as do a lot of others on here but still consider it is handmade. I use printables bought with a commercial licence to make into paper crafted items. Very hard to decide about handmade.
True handmade would be a woodey who grows the tree, cuts it down then turns. A knitter who has sheep, shears, cards, spins the yarn, knits into a garment. A stonemason, who digs the stone from the earth and then with tools carves the design. Think in the 21st century we have gone beyond that and we use what we have available to create.
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Hi Paul, I was just pointing out to Joy that hand engraving and laser engraving were totally different techniques with different possibilities.
Not suggesting that what you do would be mass production.
I think the way around your volume discount dilemma would be to put up custom listings for your customers. It would be slightly more time consuming than drop-down menus, but also makes it more personal.
Question 2. I had my own web-site through create.net and their system would have done what you need but I found it too complicated myself and Folksy is better for me. Your own web-site still costs and you are solely in charge of driving customers to your site. It sounds like you might have to keep your inventory lists separate to your Folksy listings and sales.
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Too late folks.
Paul has left us being of the opinion that Folksy is not the place for him.
What a great shame that is. A true craftsman who should have been welcomed with open arms by all of us. I have personally wished him the very best of luck and am very very sad that he did not get quite as much friendly help as he should have expected.
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