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Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

They shut me down, no notice and made me prove my process , and still denied my return.

Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

I've gotten 8 notices, didn't get shut down got shutdown for something else.

best thing to do once you get a notice, put account on vacation mode. then email them telling them your working on what is causing the copyright issue. usually i tell them that its not copyright or w.e or just misused title, tags w.e make them happy

Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

I found an item and put it to my 4 stores. The product was not handmade and even a 5-year-old child can understand it. But the item looks vintage and authentic.

I gambled, and made 450 sales (maybe around 1500 items) in 21 days before the christmas in 2014..

1 store was closed. I couldnt reinstall it. It was a 3-month-old account.
Other shop was suspended, but then I achieved to install it in one week. They told me to delete the product. It was a 1-year-old shop.
The other two shops were safe. Etsy only deactivated the items and mailed to me. That is all.. They were more than 1,5 year old. I dont remember well, but one of them was almost 2 years old.

But my problem was not copyright or anything else.. The story was about "handmade" or not.

It was a perfect christmas anyway.:) was My best selling record in my entire life...

Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

How do you handle multiple shops? Do you make one Pay.pal for each shop or can 1 Pay.pal be use with many shops just add the new email address?

Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

Better policy is 1 paypal per shop - stealth way

Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

I had 3 pay.pals for:

Myself
ET.SY shop 1
ET.SY shop 2
ET.SY shop 3
ET.SY shop 4
Website 1
Eb.ay 1

My father
ET.SY shop 5
ET.SY shop 6
ET.SY shop 7
Website 2
Eb.ay 2

My mother
ET.SY shop 8
ET.SY shop 9
ET.SY shop 10
Eb.ay 3

On eb.ay, you have to link your pay.pal to your eb.ay account.
However; on et.sy, you dont have to link your paypal to your et.sy account.
I link a credit card to et.sy to pay my bills and then add an email from my pay.pals.

Yes, every pay.pal acc had a few emails and I used different emails for my Et.sy accounts.

I, personally, advice to use a few pay.pals. For example, there was a crazy buyer, who bought 4-5 sales from my my father's et.sy account. Then, she wanted refund. Opened 4-5 cases on et.sy.:) She bought around 750 USD totally and it was a big amount for me. Because I send the products via DHL Express to USA.. Then my pay.pal account was limited (not suspended). I think It was 45 days or 60 days. I dont remember at the moment. And all of my accounts under my father's pay.pal was effected. Then, pay.pal found me right (my only win on pay.pal :D ) But they did not take the limit off at least 6 months..

All of my paypal accounts are safe; however; now in Turkey, pay.pal stopped its operations on June and I cannot use it...:)

Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

Thank you very much Cihan! This is really helpful. I have only 1 shop per 1 PP at the moment. I will try to open more shops later.

Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

Good approach plan.

Re: How many copyright complaints before a shop is shut down?
 

Bubskin & rsot,

A very important ADDITION to my last post...
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Pay.pal does not inform ET.SY about my shops, OK..

However; there is a very important point you have to know very well.

Lets say I have a stealth account on pay.pal.. Lets name it as JESSICA...
I have a shop on ET.SY: SHOP A..
JESSICA recieves payments from SHOP A
Allright...

Then; you have another pay.pal account named ANGELINA...
Angelina also has shops on Et.sy.. Lets say SHOP B and SHOP C...
No problem.. Everything is ok..

One day; you want not to use pay.pal account named JESSICA..
You change the email address from Jessica's pp account to Angelina's pay.pal account on Et.sy payment page.

Here, ET.SY still doesnt know who you are. They dont understand that you have two pp accounts. However; Pay.pal immediately limits (no suspension) your account WHEN YOU RECIEVE THE FIRST PAYMENT for SHOP A...

That's why; for the example above...
Lets say your pay.pal account for Jessica was suspended by Pay.Pal..
SHOP A becomes a rubbish. Every Et.sy account has a SHOP ID.. Something like SSN.. Even you change the name of your shop on ET.SY, pp can still understand that it is the same shop..

So, In conclusion;
You can set up a management like my last post. But be careful when your pp gets limited or suspended.

And Yes, this is also from my experiments.