Review (March 2024)
Build a unique online store, sell your work, and run a creative business. perfect for clothing designers, bands, jewelry makers, crafters, and other artists.
6M
Estimated Revenue
8.61M
Website Visitors
1.9/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about Big Cartel?
Estimated Revenue (2020)
$6M
Total Employees
42
Founded
2005
Industry
Computer Software
Location
Salt Lake City, United States
About
Big Cartel: Build a unique online store, sell your work, and run a creative business. Perfect for clothing designers, bands, jewelry makers, crafters, and other artists.
What is Big Cartel's Revenue?
Big Cartel's estimated revenue for 2023 is $6M.
What does Big Cartel do?
We create simple tools and resources for artists to build unique online stores and run creative businesses. We believe in the artist. We also believe in building a company that cares about and supports it's people both in and out of work.
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Bigcartel?
6/mo Traffic Growth
-28.40%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
9M
Time on Site
3.2Mins
Pages per Visit
4.0
Bounce Rate
47%
How fast is Bigcartel growing?
Bigcartel has grown by 3.8% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Bigcartel?
Last month, Bigcartel received 9M visitors who spent an average of 3.2 minutes on the website and visited 4.0 different pages per session. Overall, 47% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Bigcartel?
3.7M people (43%) visit Bigcartel directly. 1.2M (14%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 2.2M (25%) discover Bigcartel through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 60k (1%) visitors come from Bigcartel's email newsletters. Finally, 5.8k (0.1%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Bigcartel?
Bigcartel's top market is the United States and they receive 4.5M (52.7%) people.Then the 2nd is United Kingdom with 658.8k (7.7%).The 3rd is is Canada with 438.2k (5.1%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What are Bigcartel's ads on Google?
Google Ads
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What do Bigcartel's customers say about them?
Review Score
1.9/5
Total Reviews
33
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Anonymous
Faux fur source = scammers
Reviewed on 2021-04-04T14:13:14
Do not order anything from faux fur source!! Waited 3 months for my package, it didnt arrive.And u dont get the money refunded either.
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Leahy Luke
Worst site iv ever used in my life
Reviewed on 2021-03-09T12:40:13
Worst site iv ever used in my life. They dont even have a toll free number to call.Joke of a website
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Ellie Dodson
Great site - bigcartel review
Reviewed on 2021-03-08T12:35:11
Having read through this review page in advance to setting up my site on big cartel,I expected it to be a tragic waste of time. I was pleasantly surprised and horrified at these reviews once I started using it.
The issue is, the people writing the reviews on here do not understand the difference between reviewing a store using big cartel as their platform, and the platform big cartel itself.
Since I have owned multiple successful etsy stores before, I moved to bigcartel because I was fed up of ridiculous fees taking loads of my profits. Using big cartel for my business, I no longer lose around 20% to etsy fees.
I think it would be a lot easier just to write a list at this point.
Pros of big cartel:
-Only 2.9% transaction fee if you use stripe as your payment method (basically its a safe checkout option). No fees paid to bigcartel unless you pay monthly for better features -which is a hell of a lot cheaper than shopify packages.
-cheaper website packages. The first package is free, which is great go start on. And then the next one up, I believe its around £7 a month compared to shopify which starts at around £20 for its basic package. Its more affordable and you don't need to make as many sales to make it worth using!
-You can use either bank payments or paypal or both to get paid/pay for items
-easy to use, no coding involved unless you choose to
-looks good - nice presets. Takes the stress out of having to come up with something on your own.
-stripe has a feature that assesses scam payments and reports back. I haven't had to use it ever or report any scam payments but its good that there's regular assessment
Cons of bigbcartel:
-I would say you have to drive your own customers there, but thats literally why you have your own website anywhere. Really if you're not at a stage where you can attract your own customers you shouldn't have your own site, stick to etsy to create your own traffic if your just starting out :)
-I personally am very picky when it comes to how my site looks, and I feel like it would be nice to have a bit more control of its appearance. The presets are very nice though.
-they don't have an automatic review area, you have to collect that yourself and put it up
-uneducated reviews make it harder to sell on. If people are complaining about its validity just due to one bad seller exploiting them, it ruins the platform for all the trustworthy sites. I feel like it would be a good idea to create trust with customers and have a good relationship with customers in advance to creating your site anywhere but especially on big cartel. Because reviews on here, create doubt. You need that trust in advance so they feel like you won't rip them off essentially.
I personally have never had an issue either when buying off big cartel sites. I think you just need to be aware, and not buy from untrustworthy sites. A good tip is just to pay through PayPal if you ever feel unsafe - you can always open a claim with paypal if worst comes to the worst and they are always in favour of the customer if there's an issue. You will just get your money back. There's always a very small amount of bad sites on any platform -think of how many scams there are ok amazon which is a generally trusted platform. I don't think that makes the entire platform a scam.
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Resistor Rob
This wanna-be Etsy platform is plagued…
Reviewed on 2021-01-15T06:14:35
This wanna-be Etsy platform is plagued with problems. They advertise as "free" but it's far from it.On Etsy you pay a measly 20 cents listing fee. With the Cartel you can pay $10 dollars or more in a monthly fee and if you make no sales then you lose a lot more money.
The platform is small so they offer no protection for sellers or buyers, so scams run rampant on the site. You can list stuff, collect the money, and ship nothing and customers have no recourse.
Other reviewers mentioned the platform is run by far leftists. It's an artist site, so what do you expect? It's funny they plaster Black Lives Matter in huge text all over their website, but go to their about page and the staff is 99% white. Maybe they are a bunch of hypocrites?
Lastly, Etsy has waaaayyyy more features. One example is if someone abandons the cart you can contact them Etsy and pick up lost sales. Not possible on Cartel. Etsy can accept payments for you. With Cartel you need to source your own payment solution which of course costs money, so Cartel is not as free as it sounds!
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keith
bigcartel scammers and all there customers
Reviewed on 2021-01-11T12:13:10
bigcartel.com scammers all the customers are scammers dont order from this one thepyrohouse.bigcartel
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elizabeth adams
Do not order anything from Faux Fur…
Reviewed on 2021-01-04T17:09:09
Do not order anything from Faux Fur Source. The orders do not arrive and there is no way of contacting them.Seriously out of pocket thanks to these guys.
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Kelly
Fauxfursource. Cheap rubbish from China
Reviewed on 2020-12-22T10:47:18
I bought a gilet and a jacket from faux fur source on Instagram. The gilet was cheap- looking not at all like the photo advertised and the jacket was light grey when I ordered dark grey.I will never use this company again. Cheap rubbish. They were Christmas presents
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elena harman
lost £50 to a SCAM!!
Reviewed on 2020-12-12T15:35:52
spent over £50 on a coat, never arrived and continuesly asked for refund, had no response.would not recommend this to anyone
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