To the people waiting for #tindie to be back - I've heard good things about @lectronz and maybe some diversification in the future is something to look into :)

@davedarko @lectronz Yes, I've created my account at Lectronz. But all of my product information is currently locked away in Tindie. :(

The only thing I dislike about Lectronz is that they don’t use PayPal. I currently sell in USD on Tindie, and buy my components in USD via PayPal (so no currency conversion needed).

With Lectronz, I need to sell in EUR, payout to Stripe, then currency convert to my local currency, then currency convert (again) to USD to buy my components. 🤔

@GregZone @lectronz

Thank you for the insights! IIRC lectronz was developed for the European market as a response to a lot of missing features on tindie. So it makes sense that there wasn't a big focus on the American market.

I'm sorry to hear you are blocked by this - have you tried the wayback machine yet, to at least get some of your product infos?

@davedarko @lectronz Thanks. It does make sense, with the European focus. I had a look at wayback machine and it’s good to know I can recover most from there. But, as I have a number of products, it’ll be big task. So, for now, I’ll wait a little longer for Tindie.

It’s funny that with being a career IT professional, and despite having good back-ups of most of my systems, gradually building-out an online presence on Tindie was possibly the one thing I just forgot to back-up! 🙄