(Reuters) – Arts-and-crafts market Etsy (NASDAQ:) Inc stated on Wednesday it didn’t see any materials impression on its gross sales from the week-long sellers’ strike to protest a 30% improve in transaction charge.

The corporate stated lower than 1% of sellers went into “trip mode,” which places their outlets on maintain, in mid-April, asking for a cancellation of the rise and an choice to choose out of Etsy’s offsite advertisements program.

All sellers are mechanically enrolled in this system, which advertises listings on serps and social media. It additionally not too long ago raised its transaction charge to six.5% from 5%.

Etsy, which reported its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, stated churn had remained at regular ranges thus far this quarter. The corporate has roughly 7.5 million sellers.

Few sellers Reuters spoke to forward of the corporate’s earnings stated they might have a look at options or make their very own web sites.

“(The charge improve) simply did not make sense to me. It was a kick within the pants to the little man,” Allyson Reed, who sells animal bones-based art work from Indianapolis, stated. Reed has left Etsy to construct her personal web site.