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What happened to Etsy?

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I was just browsing it for gift ideas for a friend's upcoming birthday and the results provided were...questionable and disappointing? Most of the stuff popping up look like they are by faceless merchants who use drop shipping methods to have items cheaply created and shipped without ever touching them...but the human craft of it all is what Etsy sellers are known for (or used to be at least)?

 

I suspect this is happening on other popular online stores too like Amazon. How can I bypass all the junk and get shown actual DIY merchants who hand-make each of their products?

 

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    idk but tell me why they're sending me kacey musgraves promo :bibliahh:

     

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    Idk but etsy is a mess :skull: last year me and my sister were looking up Xmas gifts for our grandma and somehow the results pulled up christmas sex toys like grinch dildos and butthole ornaments and we fell down a rabbit hole seeing all this weird ass NSFW stuff ypu wouldnt exepect to find there:ahh:

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    3 minutes ago, Subzero said:

    Idk but etsy is a mess :skull: last year me and my sister were looking up Xmas gifts for our grandma and somehow the results pulled up christmas sex toys like grinch dildos and butthole ornaments and we fell down a rabbit hole seeing all this weird ass NSFW stuff ypu wouldnt exepect to find there:ahh:

    Omg did y'all buy anything from there

    Just now, AshleyLovescats887 said:

    Omg did y'all buy anything from there

    No haha but we were dying because so many things started popping up after like elf b*ttplugs, tentacle toys and all this weird stuff I never knew etsy even sold that kind stuff there. I always thought it was just nice sweet stay at home mom's and artist selling wholesome things, threw me for a loop :dies:

    They're focusing on Depop which has a lot more potential and captured the attention of Gen Z.

    Kind of similar to what happened with Amazon. It's just become a market for wholesellers and others selling cheap products. You can still find sellers on Etsy making creative things but it's few and far in between.

     

    Depop & Grailed are better for shopping and also allow people to sell other type of merch.

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