Why do people sell on Etsy?

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You know I'm looking to make some extra money online as always, however I've had ideas of how to do it with selling things I make. I always hear about people using the etsy site to sell their craft items. Since there was some things I wanted to buy anyway I decided to sign up to buy them and then check out the selling program. However as soon as I got to the fee's section I just started to stare at it. I'm wondering if anyone really pays attention to said fees or if they just pay what they are told they owe at the end of the month. That's another thing all the fees are put as a bill at the end of the month, perhaps its just me but I would rather have it taken out of what I got so I don't have to worry about paying it later. Anyway about the fees that are listed, there is a listing fee which I expected that is $.20 a listing for four months to renew it costs another $.20, when you have say 5 items in a listing and 1 sells your listing is renewed for another $.20, transaction fee ends up being 3.5% of the item price, and there are other fees if you chose certain things for your shop such as direct checkout. I know I'm probably being cheap but being charged for a renewal of a listing every time someone buys something from you would drive me crazy. I don't see why people would do things that way, I know its the best known craft selling site but there are other ways to do it after all. There are random no fee markets that you can sell online that I'm checking into, there may even be craft based ones I don't know about!