Monika,

I would not ship until all of the money is in your bank; then close the Amazon account.  I would also be wary of her trying to do a charge back to try to get something for nothing after you ship.  Make sure you have tracking and maybe also have signature confirmation to be safe.  That woman has scam written all over her.  I would not deal with her again.  She made you jump through hoops to do things her way, which is wrong.  The buyer sure wouldn't try to tell the big box stores how to take payment or tell them they have to take a certain kind of payment that they don't accept. 

I've been thinking about this even more, as it burns me up in a sense, as they come in for 2 months, leave and say they get no sales. Yet all they have been doing is giving attention to their etsy shop and none to here. But yet it is our fault not theirs, and then run back to etsy and post on the forums that I had a shop there, what a waste, didn't sell a thing. Yet they did nothing.

The funny thing is you can look through etsy shops all day with no sales, they do put the work in it. Then there are tons of shops with plenty of sales, they obviously put effort into their shop..
Sorry to vent, but this last etsy rush we had over the last few months, went as fast as it came.
I guess that is the test 2 months then leave and complain.
Very strange, but it is what a whole bunch of vendors just did, it is very unfortunate and quite disappointing.
I really look at the vendors here as our investors, that is why we work so hard as we feel you are our bosses. We got contacted by another investment company last week.

What should we do, take the money? Or believe in those who believe in us.

We need to multiply the number of vendors we have by 10 or 20 times the amount to hit a great stride, but there is only so much we can do with what we have.
So one foot in front of another......

I have  seen those same posts, Andrew, and it burns me up too.  They put this site down when they do nothing to promote it or their shops here.  All they seem to care about is their Etsy shop.  If I see that in the Etsy forums, I can't keep quiet...I have to say something about their attitude.  I may not catch all of them, but I have my say when I see them. 

My idea in coming here was to eventually get off of Etsy.  After I saw views coming to my Etsy shop from here, I took the link off of my profile.  I want it to go the other way around, but that is not allowed in Etsy.  The best I could do if I have multiples of some items is to list in my Etsy listing that I have more of the sam on another site and to contact me for more information.  I also have in the shop intro that I have more items on another site and to contact me for information.  I had one Etsy customer from last year contact me on Etsy about a birthday present for the same person this year, and I let her know I had much more on this site.  She was looking for something other than the items I had on Etsy.  She ended up buying one of my pasta bowls and, hopefully, she will come back to this site in the future.

I looked at my copies of Schedule C, and I used the code for Other direct selling under the Nonstore Retailers section.    The number is 454390.

Those on Etsy don't seem to realize that many of them are paying Etsy a lot more than $5.00 a month.  Just put my two cents in again over there.

The order to Canada is on its way.  Now I will keep my fingers crossed it makes it through customs and to the buyer in a reasonable amount of time. 

I just put my two cents in at the Etsy thread.  The nerve of some people!  Just my opinion, but we really don't need people with nasty attitudes here.

I have heard about the Etsy shipping offering first class international, but I don't use their shipping since I don't use their payment system.  Also, this order was on HandmadeArtists, not Etsy.

I always print the shipping labels to get the commercial rate, but there is not a place to do that for first class international unless you pay for a website like stamps.com.  I looked on PayPal, but they only have domestic first class.  I'll try the software from the USPS and see how that goes.  I hope that one prints it all on one paper too.

Thanks to the congrats too!