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Hi, everyone, need some answers. So i've noticed shops are popping up with like 20 listing off the bat with items that are not allowed. How is this do they draft the listings all at one time, then wait and publish and the bots does,nt bother? Is there a secret? Because i list little at time and the bot is on my shop.

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Items not allowed like what? Clarify pls

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Probably Chinese or Indians flooding ⊗⊗⊗⊗ accounts they'll all be banned within 6 months

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Her question is why arent those listings removed quickly?Like hers?
I have seen sellers selling Window keys,as soon as someone bought it,Ebay will shut it down,but if no one buys it,then it will stay active??

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OP posted about Etsy by the way.

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yes chinese items, designer items. Yes on Etsy. All like 20 listings are listed on same day. Yes i was wondering how there shop survives.
There is a shop right know selling knock offs and made 1.3k sells in 3 mos. How Etsy allowed that.

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It is likely someone with experience or few accounts who would not hesitate to keep trying until they figure out a workaround, as they are used to doing so

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Hmm not sure but I've seen similar accounts myself 1000's of sales of ⊗⊗⊗⊗ designer jewellery

The only thing I can think of is that their aged accounts

But also you get 3-4 warnings on Etsy before you're banned for IP infringement and there are rumours that this gets reset in a rolling 12 month period

If you get one or two in a 12 month period cool the account down and then start it again I recon it gets reset

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Etsy claims it has $1 billion cash,but it has a lousy search engine and pathetic customer service.
So far it has no way to exclude sales tax for resellers,despite uploading sales exemption certifcates,you have to manually ask them to remove sales tax.
One would thaink they would spend some of that money to improve the website?

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Try not to derail the thread...

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They are taking up to 25% in fees per transaction made , thats without $20 sign up fee for every account they won't be short on cash

The CEO is changing on 1st of Jan so I'm hoping that the new one is more seller friendly

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*etsy link*

http://investors.etsy.com/news-event...january-1-2026

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what a seller hates most is Etsy makes you pay for Google search,it can easily wipe out your profit

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pay for Google search?

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ETSY makes our listings available to Google Search,so if someone comes thru Google Search and bought from us,we pay the search fee.
It is more complex than that,like did he come and browse and then x days later ,end up buying??

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You guys with botty replies killing threads more than making them alive

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make them alive??

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Morning chuckle :lol: - good one though