Etsy Advises Sellers to Use Its Health Insurance Broker

by: Beanie

Wow, talk about wanting to get all up in your business! Are we sure old Donahoe isn't running Etsy, um,I mean Etsbay. These "venues" never ever stop with this kind of crap. Collecting data, yep, uh huh, right.

by: The End

Too Hinky / Spooky.
Health insurance is a PRIVATE matter.
Frankly, I was offended that Etsy was sticking their nose where it doesn't belong.

by: sasikat9

Yea right. We are going to run right out and do it.....

Etsy needs to get some health insurance for themselves and leave the rest of us alone.

by: White Rabbit

and when Etsy goes bankrupt? :-)
their stock closed yesterday @ $8.80 a new all time low. Etsy claimed they get no commission? LOL how can you tell when Etsy is lying? their lips are moving.

by: ignatz

Wasn't the all-singing all-dancing Obamacare supposed to provide affordable health insurance to all us 99-percenters?

by: Sierra

The Etsy spokesperson indicates that Etsy isn't ''taking'' anything for providing the insurance service, but are they being *given* anything by Stride Health? Sometimes it's those minute details that make ALL the difference!  

by: iheartjacksparrow

I'd be really offended if a "venue" told me what insurance I should be buying. I'm assuming that after Wenig hears of this, all the eBay sellers will be getting the same type of message.  

by: iheartjacksparrow

And Seeking Alpha says Etsy's ship has sailed:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3668706-etsy-to-be-avoi
ded-at-all-costs?auth_param=16gf2q:1b42ebk:88f1b99137a41821f8149cb360970abb&uprof=82&dr=1

by: The End

Some sage stock advice :
BOTTOM LINE : Unless it's ALCOA, or PEPSI, or Major Crude oil, or some other commodity, IT DOESN'T BELONG ON THE STOCK CHARTS.
Etsy, Amazon, Ebay, etc.  ARE NOT COMMODITIES !

by: Ming the Merciless

Years ago under Negged Meg Whitman ebafia offered health insurance to sellers.

by: Watching the Wheels

So, who among Etsy's VC Board, also has $$$ into this?

Follow the money.

And has anybody noticed that NO AMOUNT of Wall Street spin, seems to be conning people into buying the Etsy stock?

Schmoozing and window dressing free meals and letting dweeb's dogs come to work, DOES NOT BUILD A COMPANY!

Whatever became of the "WE EARN IT" sentiment?

What happens IF Etsy continues to tank?

But then again, if it had been ME running Etsy a few less dweeby techs would have been hired and  A WHOLE LOT MORE HANDS ON OLDER RETAIL PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN HIRED.

You can't expect much from a company manned by money changers and techy's, that in a classicly Passive Aggressive manner undermine the retailers of the site with every turn.

by: an American in France

How confident can we be that Stride handles our private health information appropriately? I haven't looked at their site (I have health coverage outside the U.S.), but the article states that the questionnaire asks users to provide health information & answer specific medical/health questions. What is done with that data?

As for Etsy not making money on commissions, perhaps they receive money for advertising Stride? I doubt Etsy is doing this solely out of the goodness of their hearts.  

by: Flying Childers

When I read this latest scam courtesy of Chad & Co. I thought my head was going to explode. How it it that these people are not being led out of their offices in handcuffs? Is it just because of the Obama and other political connections?

I am sick and tired of the Etsy thuggery that goes on under the guise of pretending to "help" the remaining US and European sellers who are actually vending handmade and genuine vintage articles as opposed to the Chinese crap that has flooded the site.

Meanwhile, Etsy has escalated its war against the "malcontents" who dare to complain on the forums. It appears that they have gotten the names off of the slow sales and views thread that they recently shut down (over 14,000 comments) and have not only muted most of the most vocal shop owners, but somehow have "turned off" the traffic to their shops. I assume it would be very easy to tell one of their hacks to come up with some kind of code that would take out the usual suspects.

Word on the street is that they are also combing this venue and Seeking Alpha to try and figure out who's speaking out off site.

This only sounds paranoid to those who are not familiar with the Etsy crew. The health insurance offer is just another way for them to line their pockets after they wrecked the site and put 1000s of hard working, loyal sellers out of business.

by: epuise

If you live in a state where 'ObamaCare' is available, it is a very good deal for the price.

by: FREDDY

Etsy has NO place promoting health insurance. NO WAY am I going to give personal info to  anyone.  It will be used against you or sold to the drug companies etc..

Etsy is getting desperate. If you believe that they are not compensated in any way you probably also believe that ebay will go back the way it was when it started. Just a venue.

Etsy=wannabe ebay is following the path to he!!.  I haven't had a sale in over a month. Then last weekend - 3 sales all to California.  That sounds just like what ebay was doing.

by: Noneya

This doesn't give Etsy sellers access to health insurance anymore than suggesting going to lunch together means I plan on buying you groceries for a year.
It's a link to a company that makes money by providing quotes. This does nothing to help Etsy sellers acquire health insurance.

Please vote in the presidential election!
I will now add presidential adviser to my skills list.  

by: Watching the Wheels

Flying Childers, I don't think they do that. There wasn't a more in your face person than me, ...

... before my PERMA-MUTE.

I don't even mind it, because it keeps me out of their kumbayah forums, and all, the "I got bullied as a child people', who use the internet to hide behind.

I send my concerns to support, and when it gets past a point, have no problems getting in touch with people MUCH higher up in the food chain.

They are incompetent. Their incessant Wicked Uncle Ernie experiments and half a$$-ed coding is what zaps peoples sales.

There had been a decline, but after they rolled out the WORST DROP DOWN OPTIONS EVER, to try to list a product, I've been dead in the water.

The entirety of the crew, unfortunately is the type of "person", who just always manages to F things up.

:) Who, knows, maybe one day they'll try the OPPOSITE GEORGE  approach.

by: MS Vintage

At last we see that Etsy is not a place for All Things Handmade and Vintage, Too but just one more website huckster.  They pitch this insurance as a service to their seller members.

Most sellers would rather they stopped making changes during the biggest sales season of the year, fixed their stupid search, left the algorithms alone for a few weeks, stopped sending buyers to other sellers at check out....

The only reason I can think of that they don't mind the website is that there's nothing in it for them to do so.  There seems to be something in it for them to sell insurance online.

Write to the consumer fraud folks in the federal govt, and to Elizabeth Warren.  It's time these phoney populist websites get clobbered.

by: mcposty

Etsy shilling now,.probably getting nice kick backs

by: Garcia

The very last place I would go for insurance is Etsy.  Why they would get into the insurance business is beyond me.  But I can assure you it is because there is money in it for them or else why offer it.  I wonder how many sellers will sign up or shall I say I feel sorry for anyone who would take the chance.