Etsy’s board of directors is giving its CEO Josh Silverman a $9 million equity award to retain and motivate him over the next four years. According to Etsy’s filing with the SEC, the board of directors and the compensation committee Read more
Etsy is updating its seller policies, which will go into effect on February 23, 2021. We posted information about the new payment holds (which Etsy calls “reserves”) on the AuctionBytes Blog, “Etsy to Hold More Funds due to Increase in Read more
Etsy is relaunching a community feature called Etsy Teams. Once the upgrade is complete, “you’ll have access to new tools to build out your team resources, you’ll find more ways to engage with your members, and you’ll discover a new Read more
You have just spent the whole day sourcing and found the most amazing treasure to sell on eBay, but there’s one big problem. You have no idea what it is worth. You might not even know what it is. It Read more
Etsy created a new resource on 2021 shipping rate hikes today beginning with costs for UK sellers. The post appears on the marketplace’s Seller Handbook, which Etsy said it would continue to update. “At the beginning of every calendar year, Read more
Etsy warned sellers on Monday of shipping delays and advised them to “Get those holiday orders in the mail.” The message was added as an update to a Seller Handbook article on shipping deadlines. “Due to United States shipping carrier Read more
Etsy is encouraging sellers to add videos to their listings and said it improves exposure. In a recent update, Etsy said listing videos are now visible to almost all shoppers after taking them out of beta testing. “We’ll continue to Read more
Etsy is monitoring postal delays and is fine-tuning the estimated delivery dates it displays to shoppers, it told sellers on Friday As an Etsy help page tells buyers, “the estimated delivery date is based on a combination of the processing Read more
Etsy added FedEx SmartPost to its shipping label program, which allows sellers to ship orders with USPS, FedEx, or Canada Post right from their Etsy shop. Etsy touts the program as a convenience to sellers: “Once you purchase a label Read more
Last week, Etsy invited sellers to participate in its Cyber Week Sales Event – a minimum discount of 20% is required to be eligible for exposure. This week, Etsy shared some tips for sellers to optimize holiday sales, basing its Read more
