Etsy made some updates to three categories this month, including to its Roller Skates Accessories category. The last time it updated categories was in February. In addition to updates in skates, Etsy made changes to its Craft Machine Files category. Read more
eBay announced today it had joined the Coalition for 1099-K Fairness – though a visit to the website reveals eBay cofounded the group along with Etsy, Mercari, OfferUp, Poshmark, Reverb (owned by Etsy), and Tradesy (owned by Vestiaire Collective). Noticeably Read more
Etsy is making available stickers to sellers who reuse packaging, though sellers must purchase them on a third-party website. The sticker features the message: “Shipped with reused packaging. It’s just one of the ways sellers on Etsy are committed to Read more
This. Never. Happens. Wall Street analysts who cover ecommerce companies will have to scramble on May 4th when eBay and Etsy’s earnings calls will overlap. Typically the companies’ respective CEOs and CFOs give a presentation and then open up the Read more
Etsy is surveying sellers about their reaction to this week’s fee hike. The new fees are getting a lot of media attention as some sellers went “on strike” after petitioning the CEO to walk back the fee increase and institute Read more
An Etsy glitch is causing some listings to incorrectly display “Returns Not Accepted,” according to sellers. “All of my listings appear to have the “returns not accepted” badge,” a seller wrote on the Etsy discussion boards on Sunday. The seller Read more
Etsy published statistics on the 5.3 million sellers who sold $12.2 billion of goods on Etsy in 2021. “Notably, 79% of Etsy sellers are women, 84% are businesses of one, and 95% operate from their homes,” a spokesperson told EcommerceBytes. Read more
Etsy upgraded the seller Ads dashboard based on seller feedback, it announced on Thursday. Among the improvements it cited: it makes it easier for sellers with a lot of listings to decide which products to advertise: “Now you can see Read more
Growing a social media audience isn’t easy, but what if you could get featured on a marketplace’s social feed? Etsy’s Social Media Manager recently shared advice and offered some tips on how sellers can draw his attention to their listings. Read more
Craigslist, eBay, Etsy, HobbyDB, Mercari, OfferUp, Poshmark, and Shopify are among the companies lobbying Congress about the SHOP SAFE Act, which stands for “Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-commerce.” The Computer & Communications Industry Association Read more
