As many of you may, or may not have heard, Etsy has decided to update their TOS and Privacy Policy to include some terms about AI and AI training through any accounts that are listed on their platform.1

If you're more of a video person, here's a a video discussing the new terms and why they're not great for sellers or artists:

As suggested by Etsy, I'm going to delete my account because I don't agree with all that. While they're still going to be training their AI on my content that has already been uploaded to their servers, I don't want them to continue to do so off of future items.

Closing Sale

Before I orbital blast my account to smithereens, I plan on running a 30% off sale on my entire store. This will be automatically applied to any of my store items and hopefully will be sent off and delivered before I officially close the account.

Things will be officially offline via Etsy on or around December 14, but I'll be putting the store on vacation once the sale's over.

Should you run into ANY issues with your order, please feel free to email me at orders [at] calicococoa [dot] ca with the following information:

  • When you ordered your product(s) and when they arrived

  • Which product(s) you're having issues with

  • The Etsy transaction number

While I may not be able to directly refund you if you're outside of Canada2, I will try my best to remedy the situation as I will be downloading any sales made during the sale to my computer for referencing purposes.

So, what's next?

I will slowly be moving all of my stuff onto a different platform of some sort, most likely fully launched after Toronto Comicon in March of next year.

I'm going to start off with Canada-only because I'm going to be using Canada Post's mysterious and shadow dropped e-commerce website3 as a temporary solution for Canadian buyers. This one is a little bit different since I can only ship to Canadian addresses and it has to be classified as a parcel. The plus side is that you'll get your items pretty fast and with tracking, but the trade off is that I won't be able to just slap stamps on a package and call it a day. This may mean that smaller items, like acrylic charms or pins, will have some pretty insane shipping prices on them but I'm hoping to figure out a workaround for this.

For international folks and people that only want or need small items, I'm planning on either opening my Ko-fi store (again) or some other platform; I'm not entirely set in which platform I'm migrating to or what I'm planning on doing yet, but if you live in Canada I'll be doing my in-person shows and consignments as per usual.

You can find my upcoming shows here and my list of different consignments I'm at here from a previous Winter Update.

Thank you for following my Etsy journey if you've ever bought something from me! Hopefully the future will hold cool things in store, literally and figuratively ✌️