[dailyvijeos]

I wish eBay, AliBaba or Amazon would buy Etsy and integrate the site well while keeping management and the right amount of operations independent. Etsy is, right now, a dingy in the storm of a double-ended marketplace without the reach of the 800 million pound cargo-ship empire gorilla. Otherwise, a smaller platform will likely buy it for an “undisclosed sum” and kill it, or investors will throw in the towel.

Maybe that’s what he’s doing: reducing liabilities (ie salaries) and making revenue look good to spark M&A interest, while also considering survivability without an exit.

[spraak]

> Otherwise, a smaller platform will likely buy it for an “undisclosed sum” and kill it

It seems much more likely that eBay, AliBaba or Amazon would kill it if one of them bought it.

[jasonlotito]

Amazon already does something like this for Handmade items. It's not exactly great. I know, because they reached out to my wife to get her to move stuff from Etsy to Amazon.