In a marketing gimmick to bolster its campaign to position itself as a place for people to shop for gifts, Etsy named actress and talkshow host Drew Barrymore an honorary “Chief Gifting Officer” on Monday. The celebrity will be tasked Read more
Etsy launched a new Gift Mode feature with great fanfare on Wednesday, touting it as a way to bring more buyers to the site. Now it is offering to share tips with sellers on how they can optimize their shops Read more
Could a new gifting feature spotted by an eagle-eyed reader be the “big news” Etsy teased out last Tuesday? We asked Etsy last week, but it did not respond to our inquiry and subsequently turned off the feature. Sellers began Read more
Etsy said it is required to report information about UK-based sellers’ 2024 sales to the UK tax agency HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) next January. In its post published on the Seller Announcement board on Friday, Etsy wrote: “Digital platforms Read more
Etsy advised sellers to prepare for tax season, including reminding them to update account information if necessary. In its announcement on Tuesday, Etsy pointed to its informational post from November about IRS Form 1099-K, where it said it was required Read more
Etsy said in a post on Friday that sellers are not allowed to add their customers’ email addresses to mailing lists, explaining that buyers must give their consent before sellers can copy email addresses from Etsy orders and add them Read more
Etsy offered a glimpse into the backend of its sales-tax collection practices, explaining that more jurisdictions are now requiring marketplaces to collect the tax from buyers and remit the tax to the relevant authorities. Etsy uses a third-party service called Read more
Sellers outside the US have reported for over 7 months that Etsy has undercharged some buyers for their international orders, forcing sellers to either pay the difference out of their own funds or else cancel the order and look bad. Read more
Etsy sellers reported problems accessing the site, with some getting a “too many requests” error. In a thread on the Etsy boards discussing the outage, one seller said issues began after 6:15 pm Eastern: “Same here been trying for hour Read more
Etsy is out with its New Year predictions about fashion trends, including the color of the year for 2024: Berry. Dayna Isom Johnson has been following Etsy’s sales and predicting trends for the online marketplace since 2016 when she became Read more
