This beautiful white cabbage butterfly was captured by my Sony Camera in Michigan a few summers ago. We love walking in the nature parks as much as possible. Looking forward to warmer weather and more butterfly photos.
For a $25 sale of an 8x10 photograph, these are the fees:
- $4.23 for marketing fees if an ad is clicked on from an outside source (seems high!)
- $1.25 for the transaction fee
- $0.23 for shipping label fee
- $0.20 for the initial listing fee
- $5.60 for past listings (28 renewals on this item since 2014)
- $5.00 cost to print photo from outside vendor
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Profit: $8.69
Other items to consider include:
- Finding the order in email.
- Time taken to check the Etsy website for the order
- Time taken to order the photo (finding the file on the external hard drive)
- Ink for the printed label
- Postage fee
- Tape for the label
- Sturdy/Cardboard large size envelope -$1.00 each
- Cutting out special paper to protect the photo from scratches inside the envelope
- Including freebies in the package
- Including a sticky colorful return address label on the back of each photo
- Large envelopes must be driven to the post office since they don't fit in the mailbox hmmm. lol
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