Any EU sellers experiencing strange dip in traffic?

[storas]

Originally Posted by rsot

Source of this?

https://www.etsy.com/seller-handbook...y/321914904041

9 states added as of yesterday.

[agent006140]

Etsy also collects Australian customs duty if order is less than $5xx,I am not getting too many AUSSIE buyers these days !
It could be the strength of the US dollars as well

[SWORDFISH497]

Originally Posted by Tron

Thanks all for the replys. Yes, there is more competition true, BUT I was doing up to 20-30 sales a day per account and then all 6 accounts bottomed out avg. 5/6 sales and 10/15 on a good day. I have been selling since last june and on startup I was getting more sales than now. It was a very dramatic drop in march of this year and i noticed it was all of my google shopping sales had gone, 0 traffic.. Now they are back but very low and it was gradually building up again and then it bottomed out again.

Not only that, direct sales from etsy have become over 50% EU sales, it used to be closer to 3-5% EU and 90% USA. It all seems too sudden and its not in one genre of item so that rules out one specific competitor. My eBay pages are still running fine selling similar items so that makes me think it is ETSY side.

Its not title and tags, or price point. Is there any new restrictions for EU/UK sellers? Has the budget for the free Google Shopping been cut for UK to NA ads?

I'm surprised that others are not experiencing the same issue as I am, its kinda thrown my theory out the window.

How hard to create an ETSY Stealth account?