I was shocked the other day that I actually paid more in postage than I did for a couple pieces of fabric...was painful but it's not the sellers fault. I'm sure the griping and complaining about stuff like that also gets rather old.
Can't say I use Etsy and I'm not sure how to navigate on it like I could eBay...also seems that people don't remove their items when they are sold.
Hope your Etsy works well for you. You could do a newsletter to all your prior buyers (me :) ) if you want to have a sale on your Etsy site so we'll know to go and look around again.