Re: Buying Et$y account Quote:
Originally Posted by supplies This is nonsense. Its like ebay, yes you can sell whatever you want and break all the rules… until you can’t. If you have a strong account you might get away with more for longer but if you’re new and try that ****, you’re gone. Your competitors prey you do something stupid so they can report you | What you say may have been more accurate a decade ago, but it is flat wrong now. And has been since Summer 2015. If your merchandise does not infringe or violate any specific prohibitions in the banned items list, and you have no issues with your customer service, with payment processing, or being too close a competitor to an Etsy seller receiving special services (the Etsy equivalent of a personal banker), you're golden.
I am not saying that Etsy doesn't have rules that they enforce. They do. But the rule against reselling mass manufactured unaltered items as handmade, new items as 20+ year old vintage, and ready to use finished items as supplies is not enforced. Reports of reselling or listing items newer than twenty year old vintage are scanned by AI, not by humans, and discarded. Reports Etsy has shared with the public over the last handful of years about the actions taken by Marketplace Integrity do not offer any stats about handling reseller shops or items. Even though the majority (that's more than half) of shops on Etsy are reselling to some degree. Sellers can list the products from their Multi Level Marketing memberships in their Etsy shops as "handmade", and it's hard to think of more obvious reselling than MLM!
Selling infringing items, ripping off your buyers, and being caught out as deceptive about your identity, are the issues sellers have to avoid to stay open.
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