Etsy revealed some data about buyer-seller disputes, intellectual property takedowns, and requests for member information. The marketplace said its first ever Transparency Report provides an in-depth look at how Etsy integrates its company values, responsibility to members, and legal obligations. Read more
The Internet provides sellers with new ways to raise funds to grow their business. One is a type of financing called “working capital advance” made popular by Kabbage, which assesses risk by looking at sellers’ activity on ecommerce platforms, payment-processing Read more
Etsy continues to encourage its sellers who sell locally – for example, shoppers who use the Etsy mobile app can receive notifications about Etsy Local events. In a new announcement, the marketplace said it has made creating and joining Etsy Read more
Now that Etsy is a publicly traded company, it must file quarterly earnings reports with the SEC. On Tuesday, the company revealed Gross Merchandise Sales were $531.9 million, up 28.2% compared with the first quarter of 2014. The growth was Read more
Online sellers say scammers and spammers are continuing to use redirects to siphon Google traffic away from their Etsy listings. In April, EcommerceBytes reported that scammers were exploiting Google by using doorway pages to drive shoppers to their own websites. Scammers copy Read more
Sellers are caught in the middle of two companies, Etsy and PayPal, and have said they’ve gotten few answers over missing funds. EcommerceBytes has been following the problem since May 12th and has also received cryptic answers from the two Read more
Etsy passed along a message from PayPal in a discussion thread about missing payments from sellers’ accounts. PayPal said the problem was resolved, but refused to disclose if the problem was on its end. For well over a week, some Read more
Etsy is receiving a lot of attention today, but not in a good way. A new Wall Street report called into question the ability of the Etsy to deal with the problem of fakes and trademark infringement. Counterfeits are a Read more
Etsy provided an update about the meltdown of its payment-processing card reader, much to the relief of sellers who had been anxiously wondering if a week’s worth of in-person transactions could ever be recovered. Etsy spokesperson Nikki Summer pointed EcommerceBytes Read more
Etsy confirmed it is investigating reports of a problem with its card reader that allows sellers to process in-person credit card payments. Some sellers discovered last week that Etsy failed to show transactions they had processed through the readers. Etsy Read more
