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Items removed from etsy
 

In keeping with the AI takeover, it seems Etsy is getting in on the fun as well. This morning we awoke to an email saying Etsy has removed items from our shop. AI is so stupid it can't differentiate between items that SPY on people and items that PREVENT spying. Ours are the latter. AI is a major step backwards.

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what is the item removed?

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Some of these platforms are also intentionally dropping sellers off.
Too many sellers for them to handle

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Np one is making any money

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Your listings have been reported

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I got one as well this morning

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What was the reason for remove? e-mail text? What were these items (trademarks?)
Specify

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same please

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They look for key words not putting those key words in context

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Then the item may not sell

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Yep agreed - just saying right now that is what is happening. Doesnt solve the issue just explains why its an issue

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I wonder what keywords you have in mind, what bothers them? trademarks or items that are not handmade, etc.?

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Spy will definitely be one

Certain brands are likely to also trigger it.

There isn't really a definitive list at least not a public one

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I know the word 'ivory' will trigger it,even using the word to describe chinaware ,cloth

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Yep definitely banned but that's a legal thing more than a just etsy thing

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You should contact Etsy if they are willing to finetune its AI to accept 'item which prevent spying' and ban 'Item which spy' /

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Eventually they will. Just takes time fir tweaks to be made to the AI

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It's a waste of time - like talking to a brick wall. Tried to contact them before - if it doesn't make them money they ignore you. Considering closing the shop, nothing sells in this economy anyways except cheap crap.

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You are asking them to make changes just for a rare item,they are not going to do it.
have your own website and you can do what you want

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I can imagine, going through this crap on Mercari and Poshmark.

Wonder if all these platforms utilizing the same AI.

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same AI ...doubted but perhaps same software platform then customization

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Oh I have websites, several of them - same old problem, they control the search results, so no traffic, no sales. They forward all the traffic to Etsy and egay, the system is rigged

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etsy makes us the sellers pay for the trafffic.
I think people are just tapped out,after making all the non discretionary payments,there is not much left .
They come to my shop and look for the lowest price items!

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very difficult to compete with the traffic at the larger net platforms

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It's possible they all use the same company that offers the AI bots.

I wonder what's better, 1 company offering the same AI or each platform owning their own AI bots....

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You would have to pay Google Search more,but is it worth it?

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for larger volume sellers to get traffic, might make sense - profit analysis models

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All you can do is make your website as much SEO friendly as possible.
The big players will always crush the little man.

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This is one reason why small sellers sell on large venues like AMZN,EBAY and pay their fees !