Recently I have found the quality of the merchandise sold on ETSY is either totally fantastic or pretty sketchy. I bought a nice wallet that was supposedly hand tooled. Got it,and it’s nice, but I found a tiny slip of paper inside with a bar code and Chinese lettering. Yep – made in China – just what I was trying to avoid. I fussed to the seller and he claims it’s a quality piece that he will replace if I have any problems with the workmanship. I do like that you can find gifts at any price made in USA. Just made sure to get the seller to tell you: yes, it definitely is made in America.
It’s a worldwide site. So it’s not just sellers that are from America. It just started in NY. Just because it was made in America doesn’t make all there supplie that they use are made there.
Counterfeit products & copyright infringement are just scraping the surface of Etsy’s shady business practices. All of you guys jumping on the “Sue Etsy Bandwagon”-go after all the shops that blatantly lie & say their items are “handmade” when they are buying in bulk wholesale from China, India, etc. factories & Etsy knows they lie. Heck, Etsy promotes & coddles these shops-best example-threebirdnest-because she is one of their biggest money makers. Etsy is nothing but smoke & mirrors, bait & switch, redefining, manipulating, deception, violating their own policies for a fast buck. Etsy is a dank,dark place.
Seriously, you either went into the purchase doing no research or purchased with the sole intention of filing this lawsuit. Etsy has never attempted to hide the trademark risks. It only takes a simple search to find the thousands of items that infringe!
Around 2011-2014, Etsy used to charge their sellers for premium ‘keywords’ to be found within its search engine. This was part of it’s paid Search Ads. Several of these used trademark terms like Disney or Christian Louboutin or others. Some would be altered variants like, Star War. The majority of the list was generic item terms though.
There was a master list that sellers could see the pricing of the keywords. Too bad the old links to the list are no longer live, or redirect to other pages now. I imagine a search for something like “Search Ads” Etsy Keyword List, might dredge it up.
A quick search of the Etsy marketplace still brings thousands of results of products which contain images taken directly from Disney, Pixar, Star Wars and others. Yet they wait on specific complaints against each product to remove these? Meanwhile…has anyone considered how much money Etsy is making off of infringing materials? If a conservative estimate is 5% of the good in the marketplace…image how profitable it is for Etsy not to remove these items. And once they acknowledge an item was infringing they still keep the listing fees and transaction fees they have collected from those products rather than turning them over to the owner of the IP infringed. Doesn’t the removal of a listing by Etsy essentially mean they acknowledge the product infringed and in that case they would also be acknowledging that the revenue they received from it’s sale is not legal? How about we coin a new term “Piracy by Proxy”?
Recently I have found the quality of the merchandise sold on ETSY is either totally fantastic or pretty sketchy. I bought a nice wallet that was supposedly hand tooled. Got it,and it’s nice, but I found a tiny slip of paper inside with a bar code and Chinese lettering. Yep – made in China – just what I was trying to avoid. I fussed to the seller and he claims it’s a quality piece that he will replace if I have any problems with the workmanship. I do like that you can find gifts at any price made in USA. Just made sure to get the seller to tell you: yes, it definitely is made in America.
It’s a worldwide site. So it’s not just sellers that are from America. It just started in NY. Just because it was made in America doesn’t make all there supplie that they use are made there.
Counterfeit products & copyright infringement are just scraping the surface of Etsy’s shady business practices. All of you guys jumping on the “Sue Etsy Bandwagon”-go after all the shops that blatantly lie & say their items are “handmade” when they are buying in bulk wholesale from China, India, etc. factories & Etsy knows they lie. Heck, Etsy promotes & coddles these shops-best example-threebirdnest-because she is one of their biggest money makers. Etsy is nothing but smoke & mirrors, bait & switch, redefining, manipulating, deception, violating their own policies for a fast buck. Etsy is a dank,dark place.
I brought a pay of vinage Ray ban sunglasses. Never got them. Seller closed shop.
Seriously, you either went into the purchase doing no research or purchased with the sole intention of filing this lawsuit. Etsy has never attempted to hide the trademark risks. It only takes a simple search to find the thousands of items that infringe!
Around 2011-2014, Etsy used to charge their sellers for premium ‘keywords’ to be found within its search engine. This was part of it’s paid Search Ads. Several of these used trademark terms like Disney or Christian Louboutin or others. Some would be altered variants like, Star War. The majority of the list was generic item terms though.
There was a master list that sellers could see the pricing of the keywords. Too bad the old links to the list are no longer live, or redirect to other pages now. I imagine a search for something like “Search Ads” Etsy Keyword List, might dredge it up.
A quick search of the Etsy marketplace still brings thousands of results of products which contain images taken directly from Disney, Pixar, Star Wars and others. Yet they wait on specific complaints against each product to remove these? Meanwhile…has anyone considered how much money Etsy is making off of infringing materials? If a conservative estimate is 5% of the good in the marketplace…image how profitable it is for Etsy not to remove these items. And once they acknowledge an item was infringing they still keep the listing fees and transaction fees they have collected from those products rather than turning them over to the owner of the IP infringed. Doesn’t the removal of a listing by Etsy essentially mean they acknowledge the product infringed and in that case they would also be acknowledging that the revenue they received from it’s sale is not legal? How about we coin a new term “Piracy by Proxy”?