ALT I noticed an influx of "handmade" goods from China in late 2019. I tried reporting a million times Everytime I saw something but it became too rampant. I'm a LARPer and I always need custom or niche costumes and Etsy has been wonderful for that until recently. Like, they are reselling/drop shipping dresses I can confirm I've seen on websites like Alibaba and Taobao. It's super frustrating. -Raquel

ALT I sell handmade bucket hats. I searched Etsy to see what else was being offered. So many hats were priced at $15 or less. My hats are at least $49 being handmade. I was able to go onto Alibaba and find many of the hats being sold on Etsy. The same with my upcycled patched jeans. I even reported the sellers to Etsy with links to the Alibaba site with the exact picture. Nothing happened. Those listings were never taken down. -Bunny

ALT I bought some "handmade" canvas bags for groceries from a lady on Etsy. When they arrived they were obviously not handmade because they had the "made in India" tag hanging on them. I contacted her right away pointing this out and all she came back with was "you can return them." I was so angry and reported her shop to Etsy. I don't know if anything was done about it. There are a lot of resellers on Etsy and as shop owner of legit handmade artwork, I'm furious that Etsy allows this! -CJ

ALT I found 15 different Etsy shops that completely stole my best seller listing (all my photos and exact description). They posted the listing at half the price and they were getting sales for my handmade item, but I knew the shop was not going to deliver a real or similar product. They were scamming buyers and I had to contact Etsy multiple times to investigate and take down each shop. Similar shops continue to pop up every now and then. These scams impacted my sales and scam buyers and Etsy is slow to crack down on these shops. -Steffi

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