Great news, sounds like you are zipping right along.... have to check my sales sometime to see if I've improved any.... I do more sales in person at the local farmers market than I don on ETSY here lately.hit the 200 mark for completed sales, and $1750 for the year.
Not trying to play one ups manship, but from 2011 to date my sales count is over 470... don't know the $$ amount.... but I think for a while my in person sales were counted in the etsy count as I was drawing inventory out of the etsy listings.... I'm glad to see you doing well and hope it continues way into the future....
As far as special requests, I don't do special requests. Almost always they don't work out. I can't tell you how many times I have turned something for a person and then they say that it is not quite like what they want If I have what you like buy it but don't ask me to make one in some other kind of wood and of a specific size. The customer is not always right and sometimes is a royal PITA.
$600 is the threshold for any transaction to be reported to the government. This is a new requirement recently enacted by the current administration. Supposedly if you were to write a check for $601 to pay a power bill this would be reported to the government so they can keep track of your expenditures. They want to make sure that money in equals money out to eliminate money laundering.
