Etsy Vs Red Bubble: Which One is More Profitable?

[Jasmine]

Etsy is one of the low cost ecommerce platforms for seller. You need just 20 cents to list your product. You do not have to pay anything more until you sell your product. When your product sells, and you want to withdraw money, you need to pay 6.5 percent sales commission. Since this is deduced from your earning, you just have to spend 20 cents upfront on Etsy to sell your products. Let’s say you spend 20 cents to list your product. Your selling price is $20. You will be giving $6.5 as a sales commission to Etsy, When you add yout listing fee of 20 cents, you will be spending $6.70 and earn $13.30 net profit.

Unlike Etsy you cannot sell digital products or physical products on RedBubble, you can only sell Print-On-Demand products. However, you don’t have to pay for listing fees. RedBubble charges 80 percent commission. In order words if you sold for $20, you will earn $4. Interestingly, you can increase this profit margin by pricing your product higher.

 

[Mika]

If you check the traffic, revenue, and market size, you will fund out that Etsy is better than Redbubble. On Etsy, there are more buyers than sellers, these buyers are registered users of Etsy who come to the platform to buy frequently. On Etsy, you can sell in multiple ways and multiple products. However, you must realize that Etsy is a competitive market and if you are just starting out you might find it very difficult to sell on Etsy. You might have to spend a lot of money on ads before you actually generate sales. Redbubble on the other hand is not as big as Etsy, but it has no upfront cost, therefore, there is no harm in listing products. You might create and list 100 products and you pay nothing. Do you actually generate sales? The answer is yes? How much do you make? The answer depends on what you are selling and how much you are selling for.