what's up guys in this video I'm going
to show you an Etsy seller that's making
money hand over fist breaking the rules
now they're making money for a period of
time it probably will not last forever
but it's a little bit of an interesting
story because somebody shared this with
me and I'm going to show you this seller
what they're selling and how they're
basically making a hundred dollar markup
per sale
the person who shared this with me
actually reported them to Etsy and I'm
gonna share with you uh what Etsy did
about it in response to that report so
let's get right to it
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all right so the person who shared this
with me they went to Etsy and they
searched for antique bracelets now I put
the word antique in quotes because what
I'm about to show you is going to reveal
that they are not actually antique
bracelets
they're more or less just little
trinkets that you can find on Alibaba
but you can see here that this Etsy shop
with 56 000 sales
and this bracelet in over 20 people's
carts ranging based on size from 86
dollars to 106 dollars
can actually be found on Alibaba right
now
for one dollar to six dollars okay yes
you heard that correctly
this bracelet here that's selling for
between 86 and 106 dollars is on Alibaba
for between one dollar and six dollars
now I'm going to share with you why I
think this is breaking etsy's rules okay
uh also before I do that uh just another
example of a seller star seller 5100
sales doing the exact same thing here
with the different style bracelet
they're charging 37
and this bracelet is available with
basically the same picture on Alibaba
for between a dollar fifty to three
dollars so absolutely massive markup but
here's the thing if you go to Etsy and
read the house rules it says that this
is their handmade policy all right
handmade on Etsy is a spectrum on one
end we have makers sellers who literally
making items with their own hands on the
other end we have designers sellers who
design their items but rely entirely on
an outside Assistance or another
business to help physically produce them
that's like us to print on demand
sellers many handmade sellers fall in
the middle of the spectrum because
they're both making and designing their
items
regardless of where you fall on the
Spectrum you must be transparent about
who is helping you and how your items
are being made everything listed as
handmade must be made and or designed by
you the seller reselling is prohibited
in the handmade category
you may also have shop members who help
you run your business as long as you
okay so so what I was told was that this
was in the handmade category and they
were misrepresenting their products uh
by basically marketing them as handmade
when in fact they are you know pretty
obviously Drop Shipping them from
Alibaba if not Drop Shipping they're
ordering them and then just fulfilling
them themselves
uh reselling so here's a little bit more
on etsy's house rules on reselling
reselling is selling an item that you
the seller did not make or design
etsy's Marketplace includes handmade
items vintage items and craft supplies
reselling is only allowed in the Vintage
and craft supplies category
uh and then here's the thing right like
it's it's kind of a vintage looking
bracelet but it's not a true vintage
bracelet because they're being
manufactured today at least I may I may
misunderstand this but
um it certainly looks like they're
breaking the rules in some way shape or
form and just making an absolute ton of
money
um here we go so just one last uh from
etsy's help center makers so a maker is
a seller who physically makes the items
listed for sale in their shop designers
a designer is a seller who came up with
the original design pattern sketch
template prototype or plan to be
produced in-house by uh shop members or
a production partner
so there's definitely a gap between
makers and designers and in the case of
just drop shipping something uh I guess
you're neither right because you're not
designing it and you're not making it so
I'm pretty sure that goes against etsy's
rules but when Etsy received a report
from the person who shared this with me
uh they didn't do anything about it so I
don't know it's just weird man as we all
know how finicky Etsy can be to print
on-demand sellers where you can be on
the receiving end of a report where you
didn't actually do anything wrong
somebody's just filing a frivolous uh
report to get you know hopefully get
somebody else removed you know and that
person they're targeting again didn't
have to do anything wrong and they will
not do anything to help us print on
demand sellers but when somebody's just
drop shipping
little trinket bracelets from China and
lying about the quality of them
Etsy gets a report they don't do
anything so I don't know guys I I don't
know I don't know it is what it is I
mean
there's people making but what's crazy
is how much money some of these shops
are making because if we decided to do
this exact same thing today and undercut
these other shops I doubt we'd make
anywhere close to as much money so it
kind of makes you wonder right it kind
of makes you wonder because they're
getting such favorable placement from
the algorithm which is letting them move
uh the volume they're moving of these
you know knockoff bracelets
and I mean again the the markup they're
making is just astonishing it's in some
cases you know selling a six dollar
bracelet for 106 dollars so
it's interesting guys it's interesting I
guess for what it's worth too um the
pricing on Alibaba can be a little bit
misleading they often advertise a lower
price or basically the lowest price
possible if you were to order like a
mass quantity
um otherwise you may pay twice as much
but in this case twice as much would
still be a huge profit margin so I don't
know let me know your thoughts in the
comments below I certainly doubt this is
a unique case but it was such a
transparent one because it was like
they're selling on Etsy here and here's
where you find on Alibaba and there's a
hundred dollar gap between the two which
is pretty astounding
um so yeah
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