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Horrible Hobby Hangout - Join us for sweet tea and sewing!
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Kaderin Triste
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I have seen (and heard of) times when fake sellers steal photos and item descriptions from other shops and basically list them at slightly lower prices to try to scam people and when they are reported, Etsy does nothing. I know because I reported a couple of them and also informed the original seller just in case they weren't aware of the scammers. Unfortunately, they were aware and had also reported the shops. Multiple times.
And Etsy basically strongly encourages people to offer discounts and free shipping all the time because nowadays they're trying too hard to compete with Amazon. When Etsy first started, they were a great place for crafters to get their items out there and have a chance to actually sell the things they make to a wider audience than they could before.
But I can actually get a lot of items cheaper on seller's sites outside of Etsy than I can on Etsy these days as well because etsy charges so much (I think it's a fee per item listed plus like 10% of each sale or something like that, but I don't remember for sure) that sellers have to significantly raise their prices to make the same profit as they would on their own sites.
I actually think 90% of the shops I've bought from or considered buying from in the last year have turned out to have their own sites off of Etsy, I just didn't know it until after buying from them. (or in a couple cases, researching)
Ah, the snacks were basically anything. But vegetarian-friendly. I don't think anything specific was mentioned. Lol
Posted 11-05-2021, 02:11 AM