Can I bring my Etsy shop over?

Yes. Download your listings as a CSV from Shop Manager and upload it in Imports. Each listing waits as a draft, which only you see, with its photos, until you check it and post.

Does MerchVice charge per listing?

No. Showing off and trading are free. Selling has one flat fee, shown before you list, and no fee on shipping.

Are there ads in the MerchVice feed?

No. The feed is newest first, with nothing ranked and nothing paid to rank. Anything promoted sits beside it and says so.

Can I sell handmade merch here?

Official merch and your own designs, yes. Unofficial items can be shown and talked about, but not listed for sale or trade.

All comparisons

MerchVice vs Etsy

Etsy is a shop window. MerchVice is the room behind it: every shirt you own, on its band's page, kept whether or not it's for sale.

Checked October 2026. Every fact about Etsy here comes from its own help, fees and terms pages, each with its source and the day we read it.

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The short answer

Etsy is a global marketplace for handmade, vintage and craft goods, where a shop reaches buyers everywhere and pays a fee per listing and per sale.
MerchVice is built for the merch and the fans: a closet for what you keep as well as what you sell, pages for every band and design, trades between fans, and a feed that is newest first with no ad slots in it.
Use both. Keep your shop there; download your listings as a CSV and bring them, photos included, into your closet here.

Side by side

What matters	MerchVice	Etsy
Built for band merch	MerchViceYes Every page is about band merch: shirts, posters, records, pins and patches.	EtsyNo Built for handmade, vintage of 20 years or more, and craft supplies. Reselling mass-produced items isn't allowed. Source
Find by band, tour and year	MerchViceYes Band pages, design pages, decade filters and shows, so a shirt finds its tour and its year.	EtsyNo Search runs on seller-written tags, descriptions and attributes. No band, tour or year fields. Source
A closet for what you keep, and a Top 8	MerchViceYes Post what you own to show it off, not only to sell, and pick a Top 8 for your profile.	EtsyNo Favourites are a wishlist of listings you'd like to buy. Nothing records what you own, and there's no Top 8. Source
Trading, item for item	MerchVicePartly Mark an item Open to trade today. The trade itself, with the item moving to its new owner, is coming.	EtsyNo Shops sell, with Purchase Protection refunds on qualifying orders. No item-for-item trade. Source
Date your shirt's tag	MerchViceYes Free: photograph the tag and get its era, with the sources, whether you join or not.	Etsy Nothing on its own pages says either way.
Free to show off and trade	MerchViceYes Free to show off and trade. Selling is coming, with one flat fee shown before you list.	EtsyNo Each listing costs $0.20. A sale costs 6.5% of the order, plus a payment processing fee that varies by country. Source
Newest first, nothing ranked	MerchViceYes Newest first, for everyone who follows you. Nothing is ranked and nothing is paid to rank.	EtsyNo Search is ranked by listing quality, shop completeness, customer service and tags; cheap US shipping gets priority. Source
No ads in the feed	MerchViceYes Nothing in the feed. Anything promoted sits beside it and says so.	EtsyNo Etsy Ads sit in designated spaces in search results, placed by auction. Source
Buying new from the band	MerchViceYes Bands claim their page free and put their official merch and store links on top.	EtsyPartly A band can sell items it made or designed itself. Reselling mass-produced merch isn't allowed. Source
Following bands	MerchViceYes Follow bands, members and tags, and hear when they add new merch.	EtsyYes Follow a shop from its homepage and its updates reach your favourites feed. Source
Taking your data with you	MerchViceYes Download everything you posted from Settings, any time, as files you can open.	EtsyYes Shop Manager, then Settings, Options and Download Data: a CSV of your active listings with their photo links. Source

Where Etsy is better

Handmade and custom work is the whole point: patches, pins and prints by the people who make them. Source
A full refund if a qualifying order doesn't arrive, arrives damaged or isn't as described. Source
Reach: Offsite Ads put listings on search engines, social media and partner sites. Source
Your whole account's data downloads as a ZIP of CSV and JSON files. Source

Use both

Nobody is asking you to leave Etsy. Bring your items here as well, so they have a home that is about the music.

In Shop Manager, open Settings, then Options, then Download Data, and click Download CSV: your active listings with their photo links. Upload it in Imports here, and your photos come over once you say they're yours. Source

Bring your items in from a file

Keep your closet here

MerchVice is where people show off the band merch they own and trade it with other fans. Your closet, your bands, your people.

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Questions

Can I bring my Etsy shop over?: Yes. Download your listings as a CSV from Shop Manager and upload it in Imports. Each listing waits as a draft, which only you see, with its photos, until you check it and post.
Does MerchVice charge per listing?: No. Showing off and trading are free. Selling has one flat fee, shown before you list, and no fee on shipping.
Are there ads in the MerchVice feed?: No. The feed is newest first, with nothing ranked and nothing paid to rank. Anything promoted sits beside it and says so.
Can I sell handmade merch here?: Official merch and your own designs, yes. Unofficial items can be shown and talked about, but not listed for sale or trade.