Worked verdict · Digital download
The typical beginner version — priced at $3.50, costing $0 a sale — judged on the same five lines the checker scores for you, with the fee math printed. Not a feeling: a verdict, with its reasoning where you can argue with it.
Fee policy checked: October 21, 2026
Verdict for the typical version: DON'T OPEN THIS VERSION
This is the dead-price end of digital: the fixed $0.45 of every sale eats an eighth of the price before percentages, and the framing names no buyer. The fix is not more wraps; it is a different shelf in the same niche.
Tumbler wraps are a real craft niche with real buyers — and a pricing culture set by giant bundle sellers who can amortize a design across ten thousand sales. At $3.50, a beginner is donating the fixed fees to Etsy and the margin to the bundle shops.
Total specificity: 2 of 10 for the typical framing. Score the same idea with one buyer named and one moment attached and watch the total — and the verdict — move. That movement is the entire strategy of this site.
| Fee line (US seller) | On a $3.50 sale |
|---|---|
| Listing fee (per listing, lasts 4 months) | $0.20 |
| Transaction fee (6.5% of price + shipping charged) | $0.23 |
| Payment processing (3% + $0.25) | $0.36 |
| Etsy keeps, ordinary sale | $0.78 — you keep 77.64% of the price |
| If the sale is credited to Offsite Ads (+15%, shops under $10k/yr) | $1.31 — you keep 62.64% |
After the typical $0 cost: $2.72 kept per ordinary sale, $2.19 kept on a sale credited to Offsite Ads. Break-even at this cost is $0.50; priced to survive an ad-credited sale, $0.60.
Pricing against bundles with your single files. You cannot win a volume game at volume-zero; repackage until the comparison stops making sense.
The Etsy Entry Kit turns a verdict into a launch: the narrowing playbook that takes a DON'T or a NARROW to a specific-enough idea, the listing-launch checklist, the fee-proof pricing worksheet, the first-10-listings plan, and the beginner mistakes fleet in checklist form.
Included in the $39 Etsy Entry Kit
The verdict above judges the typical framing. Yours has your buyer, your moment, your price. Ten minutes:
For people who have not opened an Etsy shop yet. Nothing you answer leaves your browser, and there is no email box at the end. The verdict is a visible rubric plus published fee math — this site holds no live Etsy data, and it will never hand you a made-up crowding number.
Still deciding whether Etsy is the right door at all? FirstDoorCheck compares every door with the same verdict honesty. Leaning Amazon instead? BeforeYouStock checks its approval gates before you spend on inventory.