Etsy Adds To Cyber Savings With $5 Off Orders Of $25+
Etsy is adding extra savings to their Cyber Weekend sale with a $5 off orders of $25 or more offer stacked on top of seller-funded discounts.
Many sellers have already been participating in Etsy's annual Cyber Savings Spectacular Sale, offering their own discounts of at least 25% off to entice holiday shoppers, but now Etsy is sweetening the deal with extra savings.
Etsy seller and ecommerce consultant Cindy Baldassi posted a screenshot of the announcement on LinkedIn.
We're sweetening Cyber deals with an Etsy-funded offer!
To help make Etsy THE gifting destination this holiday, we're running another Etsy-funded offer for Cyber Monday! Starting tomorrow, December 2, shoppers can save $5 off qualifying orders of $25 or more (excl. taxes & shipping) for 24 hours only. There’s nothing you need to do to benefit from this promotion—we're covering the cost! Shops will need to accept Etsy Payments to qualify.
More details:
- Etsy is funding $5 off qualifying orders of $25 or more (USD or the GBP, EUR, or CAD currency equivalent; excluding taxes and shipping) for buyers in the United States, United Kingdom, Eurozone*, and Canada.
- Already running a Cyber sale? This Etsy-funded promotion will be applied on top of your discount as an extra incentive to encourage shoppers!
- The promotion starts Monday, December 2 at 12am local time and ends 11:59pm local time.
- There’s no limit to the number of times a buyer can use this promo.
- Check back tomorrow for the official promo code along with a custom social media template you can share with your Instagram followers!
*Eurozone: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain
That announcement appears to have been posted to the Etsy Community, in an area that is now blocked from public view since Etsy took most of the forum private to sellers only earlier this year.
The fact that it wasn't a public announcement seems to be causing confusion amongst some sellers, with several taking to Reddit with concerns that they would be forced to shoulder the cost of the discount.
Is Etsy eating these discounts? I looked all over, not listed under the "Sales and discounts" or the "Join the next sales event on Etsy" pages but it shows up on all my listings.
by u/zebra0dte in EtsySellers
I'll need to check the math, because I got a massive ton of sales from this Cyber2024 promo and I don't remember opting into it. Thankfully I've baked a 20% discount into all my default pricing but I still don't enjoy surprises like this.
'£5 of with code CYBER24' ...WHAT?!!
by u/Vadaway in EtsySellers
UPDATE:
Just had a direct text chat with Etsy... YES, Etsy ARE covering the extra $5/£5... but my question is then, WHY was that not mentioned (as far as I know) to sellers?! We could have promoted that on our socials! Also, would have stopped me wasting 30mins this morning panicking that I'd turned something on, when I hadn't!
Do you think Etsy should do more to communicate with sellers in advance when they plan to run Etsy-funded discounts? Let us know in the comments below!
