Change is in the Air at Zibbet.com!
Change is in the air at Zibbet and we are super excited to announce it to you. An email about this was sent to all our registered sellers today, but here is a re-cap for those that missed it…
Zibbet sellers are currently paying us a 7.5% commission of the sales price of a sold item.
ALL THAT IS ABOUT TO CHANGE!
We’re excited to present you with our new structure…
Zibbet sellers will now have the choice between two participation levels. A ‘Basic’ and a ‘Premium’ account. Both accounts have NO Listing Fees and NO Sales Fees, which means we don’t take a cut of your sales. You get to keep every penny!
Basic accounts are totally FREE. You’ll get everything you currently enjoy on Zibbet…your own shop, web address, outstanding promotional tools and customer support, all for FREE. With a Basic account you can have up to 15 items in your shop at a time. That means you can list and sell on Zibbet, and pay us absolutely nothing!
Premium accounts are going to be $7/month (limited number available at this special price). These accounts are upgraded and ‘full-featured’. Not only are you able to upload an unlimited amount of items, but you’ll also enjoy a whole bunch of extra features that are exclusive to Premium account holders.
Here is a list of ‘Premium Account’ features that are going to be ready for launch:
- Rearrange the items in your shop. We’re excited to present the ability to rearrange the items in your shop via ‘drag and drop’. Present your items by color scheme, shop theme etc. It’s totally up to you!
- Shop Color Customization. Have the freedom to fully customize the color of your shop, including the logo, header bar, shaded boxes, texts and links.
- Choose from 4 different shop banner sizes (Current size, Large size, Super size, and Etsy size for Etsy sellers that like their banner the way it is)
- Option to enlarge item thumbnail display to fit 3 across the page instead of 4.
- Divide your shop into ’sections’ for easier buyer navigation.
- The ability to add Widgets to the right hand column and bottom of your shop. Widgets are simple, fun and useful applications that can be embedded into your Zibbet shop. As an example, you can keep your customers up-to-date with your latest blog posts, display your tweets from Twitter, input your Etsy mini and so much more. The opportunities are endless!
There are a whole heap of other features still to come in the weeks following the launch. We literally have pages and pages worth! The reason we haven’t listed them all is because we want to hear from YOU about what YOU want! What would make your life easier? What are the features you’ve been waiting on forever for other venues to build?
Tell us in the comments section below. And feel free to share your excitement about the new changes with us as well! 
Exciting changes, though I would much rather pay a percentage of my sales and be able to have more than just 15 items in my shop, for a Basic account. But that’s just me
The changes sound great BUT I left Artfire because of the same $7…I agree with FarAwayDesigns that I’d prefer to pay a percentage. I haven’t loaded my shop yet and now don’t know. I also paid for a banner resize and now I see I could have/should have waited. Hmmm…!
Thanks for your feedback. Glad to hear that you’re excited about the changes.
Don’t forget that a ‘Basic’ account is totally free. You don’t pay us a commission at all and you can have up to 15 items in your shop ‘at a time’. This means that you can sell as many items as you want, for FREE, and replace those sold items with more listings.
Also, through our new Referral Program (will be released 1 week after launch), for every friend you refer who joins at a Premium level, we’ll take $1 off your monthly membership. Therefore, you have the opportunity to earn yourself a heavily discounted/FREE, Premium account…FOREVER!
We’re also putting together a ‘Special Offer’ exclusively for our current sellers. More info about this coming soon.
I agree with the other posters. I’d rather pay a commission, even a large one, than up-front listing and subscription fees. It’s the reason I haven’t upgraded my Artfire account, and I’m thinking of leaving Etsy. The commission-only policy at Zibbet was one of the reasons I was attracted to the site. Could you raise the commission instead? The most expensive commission on one of the websites I list is 18%, and they use their own payment system so I receive the full 82%. I’d need to regularly sell more than $40 a month to match that here with a $7 listing fee. I’m not sure if my shop is going to see that kind of traffic for a while.
I am excited to see all the changes you’re rolling out, and I’m impressed by how the site is continuously improving. The customer service at Zibbet is great, and I’m looking forward to the launch of all the new features and the referral program. Good luck to everyone!
I am excited about the changes coming! The flat fee sounds good to me, especially at $7. I spend that much or more on Etsy for lisitngs and showcases to aid with promotion. Sign me up!
$7 seems like a reasonable price… though I admit that is why I never joined Artfire.
After paying listing fees, and commission on items at Etsy I pay more than that anyway.
Huh? Could be really cool!
What I want to know about is all the referrals made so far. How does that program apply to this new role out?
Hmmm, I am not so sure. I would love access to the premium features but really don’t want to have to pay yet another monthly fee. $7 per month is still better than a (per listing fee) that is for sure, but I was just going to work on my shop and list more items…surely more than 15. I guess I will just have to see how it goes. Glad you are working on things, I have yet to sell anything, but have not yet put 100% effort into my shop yet.
Thanks for the comments everyone.
SpiderDaisy…Our current Referral Program won’t apply with this new roll out. Instead a new one will take its place (as mentioned in my previous comment). In answer to your question, we will tally all referrals made so far for individual sellers and be giving them $1 off an upgraded ‘Premium’ account, for every new seller they have referred to the site. Therefore if a seller has referred 7 or more new sellers to the site, they will be getting a free Premium account. We will be contacting eligible sellers individually throughout the week.
Feel free to share what new features you’d like to see added to Zibbet. We’d love to hear them!
I agree that the lack of a monthly fee and unlimited listings is why I moved from Artfire to here. I do not have the sales that cover a $7 monthly fee at this time. I love the proposed changes but would not be buying a premium account.
It’s hard to justify spending $7.00 a month on a site from which you’ve never had a sale. I’ve paid this on Artfire since January with the same result and am considering dropping that account. I don’t like re-listing fees, but at least I’ve been fairly successful on Etsy. I seriously doubt that I will up-grade.