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what's up guys Ryan here so this video
is a follow-up to the saga of my Etsy
shop being closed it was closed in late
October unfortunately it remains closed
to this day I'm recording on December
9th 2019 and you know it really sucks
it's like the worst time of year to have
a shop closed obviously in the fourth
quarter things sell like crazy and my
Etsy shop had almost 3,000 sales that
had average five-star review you know I
had very short response time to
customers I took custom orders
everything was positive and it was shut
down due to the IP infringement workflow
that they have on Etsy where essentially
like you can just report any listing
they don't seem to do any validation
there's definitely no human manual
intervention and approval it's just like
oh you were reported here's a strike
against your account and the listings
removed that's that and there's no
recourse there's no like there's nothing
for me to do as the seller to to fight
it unfortunately so I wanted to share a
quick story with you guys about why I'm
a little bit more at peace with the idea
that I'm not gonna be able to get my
Etsy shop back now you know when I
released my last video I told you I was
gonna exhaust all the options that I
thought were available to me including
getting into some you know guerrilla
tactics of like friending people on
LinkedIn and Facebook that worked at
Etsy that I had any sort of in with a
connection with like they went to my
college things like that but I think I'm
pretty sure now that I'm not gonna get
my shot back and the reason is someone
reached out to me the other day for help
positioning their products on Amazon the
reason they needed to do that was
because their ex eShop is being closed
by Etsy over an order defect rate
problem here's the thing they're a top
100 Etsy shop they're selling millions
in revenue when I talk about my shop
almost having 3000 sales these guys are
doing 3,000 sales a month right so if X
he's willing to close their shop then
obviously they don't care about me so no
wonder I'm not getting a response from a
human these guys when I say these guys
is actually
one person it's one woman and I'm not
gonna give up their shop because I
didn't actually like ask for permission
to put their story out there so I'm
gonna keep it super vague but this is
not just them being targeted the
information they gave me was that Etsy
on December 17th is closing shops that
have higher than a 1% order defect rate
and apparently that starts at the top
down so if your top 100 Etsy shop they
don't care and that's and yes you heard
that right 1% and you're thinking well
what does order defect rate mean well I
think it really just means like
receiving less than a five-star review
more than one time out of every 100
orders and it's not done in a 100 order
of 101 order of 100 order chunks like
that but it's aggregate right it's
across all your orders and where this
seller made a mistake is that they were
not setting accurate handling times on
their listings right and if you if you
subscribe to my channel which if you're
not go ahead and hit that button do me a
huge favor my most recent video before
this was talking about how to bulk edit
your handling time on Amazon well if you
need to do it on Amazon you do it on
Etsy as well except I should also
mention that this shop is not selling
print on demand however what they are
selling was still on demand thus there
is a little bit of a wait time built
into the orders things are made to order
you know Etsy is more of a made-to-order
marketplace at or at least handmade and
if you don't keep inventory then you
might need to stitch something together
after it's ordered made to order it's
okay it's Etsy but you have to play
within the rules right so you have to
set the handling time of your listings
and this shop didn't do a good enough
job of making it clear that if you buy
from them you know it's not Amazon Prime
you're not gonna have it at your house
in two days so you just have to set that
up and they did not their order defect
rate was too high even though you know
they had over 30,000 sales and a
five-star average rating easily they are
still getting their shop shut down and
their reps at Etsy because when your top
100 seller you do get to actually talk
to humans at Etsy is just regurgitating
the same thing that they oh yeah here's
another awesome thing about Etsy they
clean
to have sent an email to the shop owner
letting them know that their shop was
going to be closed on the state that
email does not exist it was never
actually sent like they did their due
diligence to ensure that it was not
actually sent or received I guess you
can say because it's not like they can
go to the Etsy cert web server and check
that it was sent but they did not
receive it for sure so their
million-dollar what millions of dollars
of Revenue Etsy shop was just gonna be
stolen from them overnight when I say
stolen it's not stolen it's just gonna
be it's gonna be it's gonna be gone I
mean it's gonna disappear overnight and
they were gonna be completely blindsided
the only way they even found out is
because they were in a community a
Facebook community with other Etsy
sellers which by the way go ahead and
check out my facebook community if you
haven't done that already
Ryan's method passive income on Facebook
there's always a link below but um
anyways yeah that's why it's important
to do so guys because marketplaces like
Etsy can burn you they can burn me they
can burn seven-figure sellers at least
people being vocal in these communities
gave this specific shop owner a heads up
that they need to start taking their
online presence more seriously on other
platforms now prior to this they only
had an Instagram and Shopify but I think
the Instagram just led straight to
Shopify but now they're taking their
Amazon presence more seriously and I
mean when I when we had our call I said
man you missed out on at least double
your income
I mean honestly guys this is why I
preach if you sell more products on more
marketplaces you make more money and
when my Etsy shop was closed I went to
printful and looked at my statistics and
my revenue on Etsy was almost exactly
the same as my revenue on Amazon and I
pretty much picked up steam and started
taking both seriously at the same time
so well as it relates to like the time
for that sample size it was pretty much
the exact same it's pretty much equal
and the revenue generated was pretty
much equal and I'm not trying to say
that Amazon isn't a better opportunity
than Etsy it probably is because there's
more customers there there's also more
sellers there but at the end of
what I'm really trying to say is I take
advantage of both and it doesn't stop it
Etsy and Amazon like there's plenty of
other marketplaces to be selling on and
again the more marketplaces you're on
the more money you're gonna make because
getting sales is a function of
visibility it starts with someone
knowing you exist and then they have the
choice to click your listing and then
when they click your listing to buy it
right so it's just kind of a function
think about the journey from the
customer perspective you need to be in
more places if you want to position
yourself to make as much money as
possible but anyways guys that's really
what I wanted to share with you in this
video it's unfortunate I don't know like
I just I don't get it at C's
publicly-traded so at the end of the day
like definitely don't if you if you're
buying stocks don't invest in Etsy maybe
even short Etsy because what what are
they doing if I'm missing something drop
me a comment let me know how it's
possible to spin this in a way where
what Etsy is doing is somehow smart or
just hit me up in the comments and let's
just pile up on the the Etsy hate rain
one more time one last time cuz and by
the way I also just need to say like if
our goal is to make money online Etsy
still a great marketplace to sell on
until they snap their fingers and deem
you no longer worthy of selling on their
marketplace but if you're not selling on
Etsy yet I do have a free mini course
that will walk you through everything
you need to know to open up an optimized
Etsy shop you should take advantage of
it especially right now I'm recording
this in December this is the mad dash
the sales rush the sprint to the finish
so definitely if you're not selling
something online like get on get on Etsy
right now there's nothing stopping you
right now when this video ends in the
next hour you can have signed up for
printful signed up for Etsy and have
your first listing for sale there's
nothing stopping you from doing that
sign up for my free mini course and it
should give you an option of downloading
the whole thing as an e-book use that it
walks you through everything you need to
know anyways guys that's it I'm gonna
keep ranting if I don't wrap this video
up so thank you for watching if this
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