Miss Gayle<p>This article has it all wrong.<br><a href="https://sherwood.news/business/etsy-has-erased-its-pandemic-era-gains-ebay-still-looks-strong/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sherwood.news/business/etsy-ha</span><span class="invisible">s-erased-its-pandemic-era-gains-ebay-still-looks-strong/</span></a></p><p>What Etsy did was break its own model to allow numerous "shops" selling the same factory made crap onto a site that was supposed to be only for artisans &amp; hand-crafted items. Why? Greed. More "stuff," more clicks, they thought. </p><p>And many artisans and a lot of customers voted with their...keyboards, and went elsewhere. </p><p>BTW: One alternative is the Artisans Cooperative: <a href="https://artisans.coop/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">artisans.coop/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/ArtisansCoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtisansCoop</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Etsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Etsy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Ebay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ebay</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Crafts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crafts</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Handmade</span></a></p>