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i think dawanda watches what etsy does and then learns from it
Signs of frustration
I have been an Etsy member since the end of 2006, and it's really only in the last two weeks I have been driven to start posting in the forums, which as well as being time consuming, is also very depressing. 'Badgering the management' was not something I expected would need to be included in my daily timetable. If this is still intended to be a business site (and that is something that seems to be up for debate) it really does need to be run in a businesslike manner
Sums it up
the etsy staff has lost control of the site, if they ever even had it
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I read that Etsy Forum thread last night -- well worth the time. Hopefully Dawanda learned from Etsy to keep unaltered vintage items off their site. Inviting any kind of factory made items on a handmade site opens the door for the resellers.
Maybe you should do a blog entry on another forum thread I saw today about vintage sellers taking a pledge that they are selling items that are truly vintage -- 20+ years old. That's kinda funny to me because many vintage items on Etsy are tagged with a decade (like 1950s vintage) and are off by 20 years or more in one direction or another. I smell a vintage vs. vintage brawl in the wind as the resellers (which are allowed and encouraged on all vintage/antique venues but one) begin to invade their piece of Etsy turf.
Etsy needs to act quickly to regain control of their site, if they can. I haven't a clue how they could fix things at this point, but the conflict makes a great show.
CAN THEY DO ONE EFFING THING RIGHT?????? EVER?????:
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5682701&page=8
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