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by wackycat
1127 days ago
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I understand that people expect a lot from platforms that claim a lot like Etsy, but enforcing policy at scale is difficult. At some point, the consumer has some responsibility to be an intelligent consumer. I use Etsy a lot and it's not incredibly hard to figure out the dropshippers and stuff that is not handmade. Usually handmade shops will have a more curated inventory that is all related to a certain material, craft, or skillset. When a shop has a ton of different items, many generic and modern looking, and many different materials and skills needed to create them, the likelihood they are a legit handmade or vintage seller is less likely. |
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When you’re a core user / minor subject expert, yes. But malicious actors wouldn’t be on the site in the first place if there weren’t a hundred naive consumers for every keen-eyed user like you doing Etsy’s most important job for them. Not sure how that’s supposed to be a defense for this sort of practice.
“Scaling our value proposition is hard, so let’s just stop maintaining it and ride out the brand name we built at low scale and enjoy the bigger margin”. It’s the website / “tech” equivalent of physical-good brands letting their product quality deteriorate through rampant cost cutting.