etsy

[GreenBean]

[ovidiu]

Greenbean,

also numerous reports that some especially egregious sellers are friends with etsy admin and survive (thrive) regardless of what they do.

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by ovidiu

Greenbean,

also numerous reports that some especially egregious sellers are friends with etsy admin and survive (thrive) regardless of what they do.

Being obvious for quite some time.

[GreenBean]

keep your friends CLOSE..but your enemies CLOSER - YouTube

keep your friends CLOSE..but your enemies CLOSER - YouTube

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer

[ovidiu]

I think the people with the fewest problems on etsy just sell supplies. Once you try making actual products, you start stepping on toes. That's my 2 cents on the issue.

[hecubus]

Originally Posted by ovidiu

One bad seller and her/his buddies gang up on people and report their listings/leave bad reviews. etsy doesn't verify anything and boots you off after a few too many.

This is what I think is happening with my shop now. I'm getting all of these random new accounts following me and some buying my lower cost stuff to leave crappy reviews.

Originally Posted by GreenBean

The cliques get into action like The Borg

What exactly do you mean? Tell me more about these cliques.

[novemberrain1970]

Originally Posted by ovidiu

One bad seller and her/his buddies gang up on people and report their listings/leave bad reviews. etsy doesn't verify anything and boots you off after a few too many.

Yep...this exactly is what happens. Ste.alth is your friend.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by hecubus

I've been using etsy for almost 2 years now with no problems but it seems lately a competitor is trying to sabotage me by leaving bad reviews. I've been selling the exact same product the entire time and always got 5 star reviews but in the last couple of months I've been getting really ****ty comments from new users. How can I combat this?

Time has come for you to know your competition as well as he/she/they seem to know you /cryptic music

[hecubus]

Well things have taken an interesting turn since I posted here last night. While I was on here I went over to my etsy account settings and added "other" as a payment method for local pick-ups and such. In less than 24 hours a former deadbeat buyer with a new account an almost identical shipping address on the accounts placed an order and select the "other" payment method. last time it was money order and they never paid and I removed that payment method. I confronted them about it and they're now spamming me with a bunch of insane messages. How do I report them?

After going through my reviews and looking up the buyer info on the two worst reviews it turns out that buyer lives in the same state and has favorited alot of the same items. This person also claimed that he was letting a friend use his account and thats who left the bad reviews. I need to figure out how to gather up all this bs and report it.

[unkown5454]

If it's in the messaging system, then you have all the proof you need.

[ovidiu]

Of course etsy will probably do nothing (from what I hear about their "support" (sic)) but I wish you luck man.

[novemberrain1970]

Originally Posted by ovidiu

Of course etsy will probably do nothing (from what I hear about their "support" (sic)) but I wish you luck man.

Unless you are in the "clique" don't expect reporting that to do any good, I am sorry to say.

[hecubus]

What is this "clique" you guys keep talking about? Do they post on the etsy forums or something?

[novemberrain1970]

Originally Posted by hecubus

What is this "clique" you guys keep talking about? Do they post on the etsy forums or something?

I only know the rumors and those are that Etsy management actually has shops and they and their friends who have shops rule the roost drumming out anyone who gets sideways of them OR offers them some real competition.

[novemberrain1970]

Oh - and I would not draw attention to myself in the Etsy forums either, for stea.lth type purposes.

[hecubus]

Originally Posted by novemberrain1970

I only know the rumors and those are that Etsy management actually has shops and they and their friends who have shops rule the roost drumming out anyone who gets sideways of them OR offers them some real competition.

That seems like its happening but there is literally only one other seller that sells the same type of product as me now and their shop just opened in October, over a year after me. I did see a couple of other sellers with similar products early last year but they are gone now.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by novemberrain1970

Oh - and I would not draw attention to myself in the Etsy forums either, for stea.lth type purposes.

For all platform forums

[novemberrain1970]

Originally Posted by rsot

For all platform forums

Very true! Quiet and blend in. LOL

[kronengriffharry]

stealth or non-stealth.. stay away from ETS.Y forum, you don't want their attention

[nakamuru]

Originally Posted by unkown5454

if you sell the exact same items, same picture, title...they will find you, especially if you have competitors.

but, et.sy is super easy to ste.alth. use the search function up top to find more info. there is no need to include places like et.sy in the guides because it is all covered already. you use the exact same practices, except it's infinitely easier to get back on et.sy.

I think you are right on actually creating a account. But selling similar items on etsy you did before will be the hard part cause its a handmade market place so if i'm selling lets say tshirts... usually thats all i really know to sell at the moment ... and selling something completely will take lot of trial and error and time. But I guess i got to start somewhere

[nakamuru]

Originally Posted by rsot

The crowd on etsy can be tough nonetheless - certain ppl may not like t-shirt competition...

yes you are correct, i feel that some competition flagged me since i had items that were very legit items, but didn't know some items were trademarked. Like who have thought "I would cuddle you so hard" would be trademarked (just in text).. and seems like flood of items were deactivated as well in one month... I had the shop running fine since Feb 2014.. then august started getting lots of them... Maybe i'm paranoid but seems competitors wlll do what it takes to take you out. On ebay it was very different since my item was very small niche and wasn't due to compeittion but more due to shipping dsr.

[nakamuru]

Originally Posted by ovidiu

You will sell more if u have signed up for etsy ' s direct credit card processing, confirmed fact, not everyone on etsy has or wants to use pp.

Etsy does database Id confirm and ssn verify for their cc merchant account, no stealth no way around it in usa.

So etsy does database id confirm on ssn... so everytime i try to use a new stealth account under my id (with name variant but accurate ss#) i will get flagged and booted right? Seems this is much more difficult then paypal since etsy is asking for SS# right off the bat?