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This article has it all wrong.
https://sherwood.news/business/etsy-has-erased-its-pandemic-era-gains-ebay-still-looks-strong/
What Etsy did was break its own model to allow numerous "shops" selling the same factory made crap onto a site that was supposed to be only for artisans & hand-crafted items. Why? Greed. More "stuff," more clicks, they thought.
And many artisans and a lot of customers voted with their...keyboards, and went elsewhere.
BTW: One alternative is the Artisans Cooperative: https://artisans.coop/
i had a decent business on etsy when it was actually handmade
when they opened the doors to factories and TEMU type stuff my business is nearly gone
etsy can go fuck itself, it did this to itself
and, once again, we tried to warn them
@MissGayle etsy sucks now
@MissGayle I wondered. Until recently, I haven't ordered anything from Etsy, but since I want to avoid Amazon & Target, I placed an order. I was surprised to see that there were so many pre-made items.
@MissGayle
I had some very nice, handmade malas for sale, and as he wouldn't let me sell them because I couldn't prove I made them myself, which I didn't. But this month I ordered a ring, and it's going to take more than a month to get here, so I think they just ordered it from a place in China.
! And I'm very glad I never opened a shop on Etsy 
. I regularly hear negative feedback about them, and it really sounds like they do NOT care about their vendors... I'm so glad there are finally alternatives 
. Not too long ago I joined My Community Made and goimagine and am hopeful they'll take off now that more people are realizing Etsy isn't the best option 
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@MissGayle I regret that I have but one boost to give. This is absolutely the answer, why the fuck am I going to Etsy if y'all are just drop shipping the same stuff as Amazon and others?!
@McNeely @MissGayle they also then hound new artists who are just starting out to buy advertising to compete against the mass manufactured goods. I got off Etsy years ago.
@alchemistsstudio @McNeely @MissGayle A few years back Etsy dropped a seller for “supporting terrorism” when what the craftsperson was selling was Afghanistani-style children’s dolls they handmade at home in the US.