 Etsy Account - Are these Warnings or just Notifications?
Okay, so I have an etsy account right now.
8 products are pulling in 90% of the money, and then I decided to scale by outsourcing someone to create 400 listings for other products.
These 8 are shipped directly from me, but the others will just be drop shipped. I put like 10 day handling time and 15-25 day shipping time, so customers should understand slow shipping. I may use foo foo tracking numbers, there is a service that provides foo foo tracking, I think trackerbot?
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The listings were made in draft mode via anydesk (remote worker accesses my account via anydesk) + my ip and then a week later I published them.
I am in the foo foo vintage niche, and it seems like this specific niche is under the radar, because I noticed multiple accounts that have been running for 2-4 years with very little problems.
And I noticed multiple other places these products being sold without the main brand owner not caring about it.
So I decided to hop in.
Now the original 8 products didn't bring any warnings (operated it for 8 months now) or notifications BUT the new 400 listings I got some (2 notifications) within 48 hours of posting, It looks like they are AI based notifications.
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It looks like it scans my images of my new listings and matches them with google search image results and then deactivates the listing. I got the images from google search…
Out of the 400 listings within 48 hours I got 1 notification email with 12 listings deactivated/inactive and then 24 hours later I got 7 more listings deactivated/inactive.
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Now are these warning notifications like "strikes"? I am not relisting them right now, just leaving them deactivated.
The current 19 listings that were deactivate.
The rest are active though, and I'm debating if I should remove them since I already got 2 notifications within 48 hours of each other, and within 48 hours after initially posting.
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The emails have the title "We removed some of your listings that don’t follow our Handmade Policy"
But right underneath it in the email body, it states other things that may have caused the flag.
So I don't think its the handmade thing, but rather the images I just took from google.
"Handmade items have to be made or designed by you"
"Selling craft or party supplies? Mark it as “A supply or tool to make things” in your listing’s core details."
"If you work with someone who’s not part of your Etsy shop to help make your items, you’ll need to add them as a production partner in your listing’s core details."
"Use your own images for your listings. Using others' photos or stock images of items that are similar to yours is not permitted."
/\ I think its this.
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I know its AI flag, since these specific listings barely got any views, like 1-2 views, so I doubt anyone reported it.
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So 1) Are these emails/policy violation notifications like strikes? Like after these 3-6 email my account is toast?
2) What should be my next course of action? Should I deactivate all those new listings, let it cool down, since they only provide 20% of my review but are causing 100% of the policy violations notifications
I'm pretty sure these 400 listings will 10-20x my revenue, but not worth it, if the account gets banned. Currently its only making an extra $100 to $200, but its only been a couple days, pretty sure leaving it will start to draw more customers. And soon it will be like another $1K to $2K a day.
3) Or Should I deactivate the listings then repost with my own images? I can ask the wholesale supplier to take photos of all the products. Then hire someone to reupload them.
4) I should just deactive them in general and let the account cool down?
Please note there are like only 4 other sellers within the same niche, and their listings are fine, however they clearly took their own photos. I really think its that.
What do you think?
Last edited by TomWorks; 08-23-2023 at 07:12 PM.
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