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About Etsy in United States

Pay for your Etsy order with crypto using the 0fiat browser extension or Android app. Shop Etsy normally, choose 0fiat at checkout, and pay with USDT or USDC — zero fees, no KYC, and Etsy receives US dollars so your order ships normally. No gift card to buy, no codes to redeem.

Etsy.com is the dominant US marketplace for handmade goods, vintage items (Etsy's strict definition: 20+ years old), and craft supplies — roughly 90 million active buyers and 5.4 million active sellers as of 2024, headquartered in Brooklyn where the company was founded by Rob Kalin, Chris Maguire, and Haim Schoppik in 2005. The marketplace IPO'd at $16 in April 2015, peaked near $307 in November 2021 on pandemic ecommerce momentum, and has spent the past two years working through buyer-count flatlining and a 2022 fee hike (5% → 6.5% transaction fees) that sparked a 7-day seller strike with 18,000+ shops temporarily closing in protest. With 0fiat at checkout, your USDT or USDC settles into USD on Etsy's side; the seller receives payment through Etsy Payments exactly as they would for a card transaction, with the same Purchase Protection coverage, seller-specific shipping windows, and Star Seller signaling. Star Seller — Etsy's quality badge, reviewed on the 1st of each month — requires shops to maintain 95%+ on-time shipping, 4.8+ average rating, response within 24 hours on 95%+ of messages, and 10+ orders in the trailing 3 months; the badge is purely seller-side and unaffected by how the buyer paid. Etsy Plus, the $10/month seller subscription, gives shops 15 listing credits, 15 promoted listing credits, custom shop URLs, and restock notifications — unrelated to checkout. Purchase Protection covers eligible orders up to $250 for items that don't arrive, arrive damaged, or significantly differ from the listing. Offsite Ads, Etsy's outbound ad network on Google, Pinterest, and Meta, charges sellers 15% on attributed sales (12% if their shop crosses $10K/year and they opt out of mandatory enrollment) — seller-side fees, never added to your cart. State sales tax behavior on Etsy is genuinely inconsistent: states with marketplace facilitator laws (CA, NY, WA, IL, TX, and most of the East Coast) auto-collect at the Etsy level; some southern and mountain states leave collection to the seller's nexus, in which case the cart only shows tax if the seller has registered to collect in your ship-to state. Auctions ended on Etsy in 2013 when the company committed to fixed-price plus custom-order workflow, so no eBay-style sniping. Digital downloads (printables, sewing patterns, SVG files for Cricut and Silhouette cutters) are a fast-growing category — instant delivery, no shipping calculation, often the highest-margin shops on the platform.

What you can buy on Etsy in United States

Supported cryptocurrencies

Pay at Etsy in United States using any of these cryptocurrencies.

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