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what's up guys Ryan here so today I
wanted to do a quick video just talking
about how to get a second Etsy seller
account in case your first account was
closed for any reason and let me just
give some context here so I I guess long
story short I had a website that I made
in college I'm a web developer so this
website was just a pure passion project
it helped me learn how to build websites
and over time it inadvertently and
unexpectedly grew to a really I don't
know what to say like large website like
it gets a couple hundred thousand hits a
month and ranks number one on a bunch of
its primary keywords and I run some
Google ads make a little bit of side
income there but the point of me sharing
that was that my first Etsy account I
tried to sell basically a handmade
product which by the way at C's the
handmade marketplace so it seemed like a
perfect fit and I tried to sell it on
Etsy I tried to list it everywhere
possible this is like my first little
introduction to e-commerce but it was
like my first kind of like business
approach to e-commerce beyond just
selling stuff on eBay and Craigslist and
it sold like one unit in like a year so
it was a pretty big failure and it's
just cuz like I didn't validate that the
didn't the niche I tried to create
demand for something that nobody's
looking for
lesson learned either way it's fine but
Etsy ended up closing my account because
they said the product didn't fit the
look and feel of their marketplace and
Etsy has like prosthetic penises for
sale on their marketplace Etsy has like
ridiculous things on their marketplace I
don't know why I said prosthetic penises
but one time it showed up in my home
page like and it's like blurred out but
you can clearly see and it's like what
is Etsy doing banning my account for
selling something handmade that was fine
like literally like nothing it wasn't
like inauthentic nothing like that it
was it's it was just fine Fred sees
marketplace from my perspective but they
closed my account and they let this
other dude sell I mean there's a bunch
of weird stuff on Etsy this just put it
that way not that I've dug too deep but
somehow they decided that a prosthetic
penis should show up on my homepage and
I clicked it to make sure that's what it
was and that's
it was and that they're doing just fine
but they closed my first account so then
in order for me to like sell
print-on-demand on it see I had to open
up a second account well lesson learned
and sorry that I took so long talking if
you just want to know how to open that
second account now is where the value
starts but if you open a second account
and you tie it in any way shape or form
to that first one like using the same
address using the same credit card will
absolutely get you
they algorithmically match and close the
second account automatically and if you
try to have it reviewed you're not gonna
get it reopened now I've had buddies who
started selling on Etsy and I warned
them hey Etsy is really quick to closed
accounts for no reason and then sure
enough they got their account closed and
they had to ask for a manual review and
then upon manual review got their
account reopened with no reason for the
account getting closed in the first
place I don't know if Etsy still
district but if you're watching this
video chances are maybe the same thing
happened to you and they might be so if
you get your account reviewed and cannot
get it back what you need to know about
opening that next account is that you
cannot link it to the first one in any
way so this is exactly what I did my
first account was in my business name so
they did have my personal name but it
was really primarily under the business
name meaning I had the business credit
card there too and my billing
information might be what they did the
match on because my second account
doesn't use my business info it uses my
personal info completely different
credit cards and I've had no problems
after years right but when I opened up a
second account it instantly got closed
because they were able to like just use
automation to link that to my first
account which was closed so that's all
you really needed to know I this was
definitely a long-winded way of telling
you that but I've seen people in my
Facebook group saying hey Etsy closed my
account you know it's not uncommon to
see that in facebook groups on the
internet if you google it it's it's one
of the first thing that pops up so um
it's unfortunate I wish I could tell you
why they do it I have no clue like I I
mean literally no clue if manual review
doesn't get your account back just be
very careful you might have the opposite
approach that I did so I opened my first
account in my business name
if you don't have a business you may
need to incorporate and use the business
as your and then open a credit card as
well in the business name and go that
route it doesn't hurt to have the second
option for @cn for beyond Etsy anyways
guys I hope this helps if you're new
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it so I'll see you at the next one
always open it roll now
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