Miss Gayle @MissGayle@urbanists.social
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This article has it all wrong.
sherwood.news/business/etsy-ha

What Etsy did was break its own model to allow numerous "shops" selling the same factory made crap onto a site that was supposed to be only for artisans & hand-crafted items. Why? Greed. More "stuff," more clicks, they thought.

And many artisans and a lot of customers voted with their...keyboards, and went elsewhere.

BTW: One alternative is the Artisans Cooperative: artisans.coop/

Etsy has erased its pandemic-era gains, but eBay has held up better Tariffs are threatening global supply chains, but homemade and pre-loved goods could be insulated from the e-commerce chaos. Hyunsoo Rim, March 19, 2025 The 2020s have been rocky so far for two of the internet's original online marketplaces. Etsy peaked at an all time high in January of 2022, up 557% from pre-pandemic levels. It has now pretty much erased all those gains. Ebay peaked about the same time, up 122% compared to pre-pandemic. It is now still about 85% above those levels. Graphic by ChartR.
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