Two issues turned fairly clear on Etsy’s newest incomes name: the platform is making extra money than ever, and sellers are going to begin seeing quite a bit much less of it.

The ecommerce large announced in a report handed out to traders this week that it’s elevating its so-called “transaction fee”—the {dollars} and cents collected off of each sale a store makes—from 5%, to six.5%. This payment change, which goes into place on April eleventh, will go in the direction of the corporate’s vendor and advertising and marketing instruments, together with Etsy’s efforts to create “world-class customer experiences,” based on the announcement.

These spiked charges are hardly the one cash that the platform skims off its sellers. As Etsy’s FAQ’s level out, sellers nonetheless must pay a flat “listing fee” each time they publish one thing, on high of varied payment processing fees that change by whichever nation the vendor is predicated. Transaction charges, beneath this new association, would deduct 6.5% of the overall worth of a given order from every store.

Naturally, Etsy’s sellers weren’t thrilled in regards to the replace. One Friday post from Etsy’s neighborhood vendor boards even known as for a platform-wide strike over what the poster noticed as the ultimate straw in Etsy’s ongoing squeeze on its sellers.

“Neither moving to individual websites nor quitting has done anything to stop Etsy expanding, or from pushing new fees or terms on to those who remain,” the publish reads.

“When we all split off, we lose the collective power of a shared platform, the name recognition and the audience which our products and hard work have built over the past decade. Further, we all end up in competition with the same platform we helped build and then left—a tiny business competing for attention against one with billions of dollars to spend on upgrades and marketing. Billions of dollars we gave it!”

It’s arguably much more of a slap within the face contemplating the gangbuster numbers Etsy relayed to traders throughout this new earnings report. Etsy says that it pulled in $717.1 million in income this yr—about $100 million greater than final yr’s income numbers ($617.4 million). On high of that, the firm additionally stated its Etsy market acquired roughly 10 million new consumers within the final quarter of final yr, grew its variety of “habitual buyers” 26% since final yr, and “reactivated” 6.8 million consumers that had beforehand not bought something off Etsy in a yr or extra.

This is all to say that Etsy might definitely maintain chugging alongside with out mountaineering up charges for sellers—the identical ones which might be accountable for turning Etsy into the handmade-and-vintage wonderland that consumers know and love at the moment. But it’s not like this is the primary time these sellers have been thrown beneath the bus; two years in the past, for instance, sellers have been told that Etsy would begin promoting vendor’s outlets snd taking a lower off every sale these advertisements refer. Sellers revolted over the change, however that hasn’t stopped Etsy from persevering with the apply (and skimming 12-15% off every referral) to today.

Hell, this isn’t even the primary time that transaction charges elevated—sellers have been slammed with a bump from 3.5% to five% back in 2018. Maybe a strike is simply what they want.