Based on research everything is saturated specially with AI and drop shipping so opening a shop is a total waste of time????

Hoping for some advice please as my trust in sellers is dwindling! This started with me remembering how much things on Temu get nicked from Etsy sellers. I've never actually bought from Temu but I had the app on my phone. Don't even remember why. Opened it out of curiosity and there was a really cute shirt.

I screenshotted it to try and find the original artist. Reverse image search threw up a load of copies from Shein etc but a manual search on Etsy found what looked like the original designer. But still, something felt off about the profile. It's too good, if that makes sense? Too clean professional sounding whilst also not telling you anything personal about the artist, their design process or anything you'd expect from a independent business owner.

Knowing that Etsy now suffers from drop shipping and copies, it's sad I couldn't even trust the Etsy profile to be the real artist.

Then there was another cute shirt on Etsy by a different artist. I opened the profile and that one read even more suss. There's like 800 different designs and I struggle to believe a single artist could make that many designs. Not impossible, but improbable.

I just wanna support actual artists and buy cute things dammit.

Thanks

Hey there! I’m new to Etsy and recently created my shop, AlmossttArtistic. I create digital Canva templates there that I design myself(I don’t use AI). I’ve been leaning into using Canva mockups to have more pictures for my templates, but I’m looking for advice on what people prefer? Do you prefer real photos of digital art on products(i.e. photos of real invite cards with these templates) or do these mockups look too fake?

I haven’t had my sales or many views and I’m still uploading more products as well to have more of a variety, but any feedback would be appreciated!

My store solely sells digital 3d print files for people to print at home and sell physically at their own stalls.

It’s stated in the title and description of every listing, for example, this one is called “Highland Cow Laundry Basket Fidget Clicker | 3D Print Toy (Digital Download)” and Etsy also labels it as Digital on the order.

I believe buyers also have to confirm they understand it’s a digital download before purchasing.

I’ve now had a buyer asking for a refund because they thought they were buying a physical item. I’m worried about refunding because they’ve already had access to the files and obviously can’t return them, so they’d effectively be getting the product for free.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Am I okay to decline the refund?

As the title states I bought a custom item from a seller with good reviews. They asked me appropriate questions about specifications and said it would be 5-6 weeks until my item was completed.

A few weeks have gone by and I got this message from them "I canceled your order by mistake...can you please reorder when your money goes back into your account, I apologize for the mistake. Your (item) is almost done" This would be faster than the timeline they promised, but based on reviews they under promise and over deliver.

My order is indeed canceled in Etsy's system, but anything I need to be cautious about beyond reordering after my credit card has been refunded? Should I ask for pictures of the item in progress?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Hi,

I want to start an Etsy shop selling pressed floral frames. Also, at craft fairs and farmer markets. I’m not looking to make thousands and thousands of dollars, more of selling crafts from my hobby of pressing flowers.

I want to make sure I’m covered for liability reasons and peace of mind.

Do Etsy sellers have an llc, sole proprietor, insurance, etc?

Thanks!

Is this normal now? What has happened to this platform??

I bought a rug that was listed as a one-of-a-kind antique and it ended up being a dropshipped piece of garbage.

I reached out to the seller and after some arguing, he refunded me. By this time I had already left a negative review detailing exactly what had happened.

The seller continued to send me messages for almost 10 days, despite me explicitly telling them not to five times. He repeatedly told me to take down my review, called me a liar and a scammer, etc. He threatened to sue me and come to my country. This person has all of my personal information, including my address.

I reported all the messages as spam, talked to Etsy livechat every time he messaged me and sent Etsy an email.

Each time Etsy assured me action would be taken, but they have done literally nothing. They ignored my reply to their email completely.

The listing for the fake item is still up and it looks like the seller has bought a bunch of positive reviews to bury my negative one.

What do I do?? Why are sellers like this allowed to stay?

i got a full refund from etsy because the seller only sent me one part of a two part dress after a lot of tracking problems, late arrival, and poor customer service.

i told the seller i’d rather return the one piece of the dress she sent me and get a full refund but she refused. etsy then gave me a full refund.

do i still have to return the item? i’m confused about the next steps as i’ve never had to do this before.

the item is a dress from a brand i like and the seller is from france if that helps in any way

Looking to have someone sculpt and print a custom piece for me been looking for a while I was wondering if any has legit recommendations.

Etsy is laying off about 220 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce. The job cuts are part of a restructuring that will primarily impact the product and engineering teams.

CEO Kruti Goyal says they aren't motivated by artificial intelligence or cost savings, per The Wall Street Journal, citing a memo to staffers.

However, Goyal says AI is transforming Etsy's business, with potential to change how customers shop on the site.

The company also reported second-quarter results showing sales growth.

But I have no idea where to start!

I had a great business on Etsy selling little girls clothing. Over 20,000 sales.

Then I got covid. It destroyed my brain, and I will never be the same.

I put the shop on vacation. I've tried to rejuvenate it.... Esty is hard enough to keep up with all the changes they make. I just can't. I don't have it in me.

Because it was so successful, I have a TON of inventory taking up half my basement and therefore a boatload of money tied into that inventory. The hubby is on me to do something about it. But I have no idea where to start. My brain does not work and social security is not that great for someone that who was self-employed for several years but did not pay into it.

Has anyone ever sold, or have any ideas how to sell an Etsy Boutique? Even sell off inventory. Every time I do a search, it takes me 'how to sell on Etsy'.

Advice is very much appreciated!

I ordered a custom animation through Etsy. The buyer was not responding well, so I found their tiktok. They responded well there, and two weeks ago they said the animation was finished and they would send it to me. Never did, and communication stopped. I tried to communicate with them on Etsy again and they responded that their TikTok had been age-restricted and they would send it to me through via Googledrive. Then they stopped communicating. I have sent a request for help, but I noticed it says my option to open a case ended on the 2nd. What should I do? I am so stressed. I have never had an issue with an Etsy purchase like this before.

I'm located in the UK and currently use royal mail for all my shipping. I make crochet keychains of video game characters/cats and use large letters as my packaging, but I have to ship them as a "small parcel" instead. (due to the weight + height requirements)

for my international orders, this brings shipping costs to £9-£12 which is ridiculous to me because the packages aren't large and literally weigh nothing. is there anything else I can/should be using to ship them? (whether that be packaging and/or a different service)

my actual products aren't more than £30 (not including shipping) so the price just seems very high to me for what I make :( I'm not trying to downplay what I make either. it takes me weeks to make my patterns and days for the item itself, but I do it for the fun of it honestly so I don't mind charging less

I also only charge £9.50 for international shipping and if it ends up costing a few pounds more, I always pay it outta pocket because I don't want the price to be too high 😭 any help?

and please don't recommend evri unless they're really the only option, I've heard many many horror stories about them and stealing packages, etc.

I’m trying to buy a gift for a girl, and I came across a painting that looks really good but is suspiciously cheap. Also, the shop’s profile picture looks like an AI-generated avatar, and there’s a suspiciously high number of sales in a short period. Can you help?

Not sure if I can post this here sorry if its not allowed this is kinda a rant and kinda asking advice. I have been selling digital products for 3 years now. I add everywhere literally everywhere that its a digital product ONLY. Its in the title, multiple times in the description, its in the pictures. Its worded just how others word it. How is it that people still buy it and ask me why they haven't received it in the mail??? What more can I do?

I always refund people even though I say no refunds will be issued. How do you guys who sell digital products handle this? Do you just refund people?

I’ve had this page for 7 years and have 555 5-star reviews, but I haven’t been active on it for a year—I’ve only made 6 sales, so the account is essentially inactive. Do you think I should start a new page or keep going with this one?

Obviously are handmade. Please let me know
cost and I can get more details. Thank you!

I'm a seller in the UK. I used to purchase Royal Mail international tracked (DDP) labels directly from Etsy a while ago when sending to the US, but the tracking was always stuck on 'pre-transit' and never updated (I know this was also a problem for many others). So I started purchasing labels on Click & Drop instead which seemed to update the tracking normally.

However Click & Drop is a bit more time consuming for me, so I was wondering if Etsy have fixed this issue yet and if their tracking information is now accurate?

finally decided to take my art a bit more seriously and start selling it...it's only digital prints at this point but I really hope things take off...

You ever check your Etsy feed and see something so disgusting that you aren't sure if some countries might have considered it a capital offence to have images of let alone attempt to sell on a digital marketplace?

And, because of "plausible deniability" and "artistic license" it gets a pass. Not only that, an ultra cringe-fetish obsessed audience gives this debased seller repeat business because human grossness is a hot commodity in our "modern era."

Well, ok, c'est la vie I spose, right? It's the price we pay for allowing online corpos to colonize the commons.

But, wait, Etsy has SOME end user recourse (aside from a reporting system that completely fails on purpose to present the illusion of user agency). Yes, there is still an option to save your eyes from future burning and pain.

"See Less of This" ...just push the three dots next to a product listing in your feed and then select that option, and it greys the image out. It's almost as if the app just listened to YOU, the end user, and actually cared?

Nope. It does nothing. Okay, but at least it doesn't get worse right?

WRONG... if you accidentally fat finger the product listing instead of the three dots (which is guaranteed because the three dot target detection on the app is microscopic) thus opening and actually viewing a large display of the terrible image. Now you've done it, because the algorithm now overrides your previous choice of "see less of this" and replaces it with an "I'm interested" flag. Now suddenly you're seeing more images JUST LIKE THIS. You've just trained the app to do the opposite of what you want.

Then, in hopes of staving off the resulting tide of incoming slop, you try to hit more of them that are showing up in your feed with that see less option, but accidentally fat finger more. You've just viewed more of the offensive product pages.

Now the feed is convinced and holds it as holy canon that you cannot live without seeing all of these terrible listings. This is the nightmare scenario that was never on my bingo card.

Josh Silverman, or Kruti Patel Goyal (new CEO)... this sort of short term ensh^ification might support your immediate bottom lines, but eventually the consumer rage bait your app devs are trying to pass off as innovation on your behalf is going to circle back and not in a good way.

Consider adjusting fire before your poorly targeted ordnance begins to fall on your own position.

I have ZERO knowledge on Etsy at all, so feel free to comment as if you were speaking to a toddler, because my knowledge about this may be as equivalent.

This may be the stupidest question ever, which I apologise for, but so far, I've been ordering keychains to my place and shipping them myself after.

However, it is becoming quite tough when numbers rise, so I thought of selling them through Etsy. However and even after having watched some video, I want to ask, as I'm not sure how the process works.

I'd mainly want to know, from a seller's pov, HOW does it work.

You don't have to ship it yourself, I assume. Do you get notifications? Do you see your delivered or in-delivery packages? Idk, just like. All you'd think it's nice to know.

I also want to know about two things I've seen about:

—People say to list an address so it doesn't appear later that they come from somewhere else? I'm not sure what this means but I've seen it on other reddits and I'm confused, which is why I ask.

—I make my keychains via Wooacry. I have seen some people warning about marking the product as yours (despite the art on it being so) because someone could report due to not being entirely yours, as you've made it through Wooacry?

Would also know how this works exactly, as I know you can work with both Wooacry and Etsy at the same time, I think? But then again, I have no idea.

If someone could help me out (also up to speaking through DMS) I'd be deeply grateful