Etsy Sellers Struggle with Platform Changes
13 posts across 5 communities in the last 60 days; 39% from r/Etsy.
“Hello Etsy Sellers Anyone else noticing their SEO tags missing? I use a platform for SEO tags and I have 77 items missing SEO tags that are old listings. SMH.”
“Hi everyone, I noticed today that my previous Etsy Support for Sellers chats have suddenly disappeared. I had several conversations with Etsy Support in the past, but I can no longer see them. Has this happened to anyone else recently? I’m wondering if Etsy changed something…”
“I love finding things on Etsy and even window shopping, and one of my favorite ways to get past the algorithm-pushed sellers and find gems was browsing “More like this.” But within the past 24 hours, that feature has turned into an AI chat bot. It will show you like 20 similar…”
Several Etsy sellers are expressing frustration and confusion regarding recent changes, including issues with Pinterest pin descriptions pulling from Etsy listings, concerns about CPSC regulations impacting imports, questions about coupon effectiveness, and uncertainty around deleted listing behavior. The lack of clear communication from Etsy is a recurring theme.
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“Hello Etsy Sellers Anyone else noticing their SEO tags missing? I use a platform for SEO tags and I have 77 items missing SEO tags that are old listings. SMH. submitted by /u/motflo [link] [comments]”
“Is there any app or way I can automatically copy and link all my listings from Etsy to Pinterest to try and promote my page? submitted by /u/leo1182 [link] [comments]”
“Hi everyone, I noticed today that my previous Etsy Support for Sellers chats have suddenly disappeared. I had several conversations with Etsy Support in the past, but I can no longer see them. Has this happened to anyone else recently? I’m wondering if Etsy changed something about how support conversations are stored/displayed, or if this is just a temporary issue with my account. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Exciting_Bug_2459 [link] [comments]”
“Hi everyone, I noticed today that my previous Etsy Support for Sellers chats have suddenly disappeared. I had several conversations with Etsy Support in the past, but I can no longer see them. Has this happened to anyone else recently? I’m wondering if Etsy changed something about how support conversations are stored/displayed, or if this is just a temporary issue with my account. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Exciting_Bug_2459 [link] [comments]”
“I love finding things on Etsy and even window shopping, and one of my favorite ways to get past the algorithm-pushed sellers and find gems was browsing “More like this.” But within the past 24 hours, that feature has turned into an AI chat bot. It will show you like 20 similar items and keep prompting you to refine your search. Sometimes I’m not sure what I’m looking for til I see it. I want to see way more than 20 results, and also, I HATE AI. This is so much slower, as the AI “thinks” and cura”
“Am I crazy? Just viewed my shop from within the Etsy seller app and noticed that my "About" section now appears at the top of the page, directly under my shop name/tagline and above listings. It's the same inside the Etsy app too. Not sure when this change occurred, but I assume it was fairly recently. (I usually view my shop from the "shopper side" every week or so to make sure the aesthetics are good, and I don't recall noticing it in weeks prior.) My first thoughts”
“Has Etsy removed live chat support for sellers? I only see the option for email submitted by /u/Pher001 [link] [comments]”
“Hi everyone, I recently opened an Etsy shop and completed the required payments. I also set up my Payoneer account and added my GSTIN. However, my listings are still not showing in Etsy search or on my public shop page. I previously deleted my listings from Printify while keeping them on Etsy, so I’m wondering if that could have caused the issue. I also changed my listing titles using Etsy’s AI title suggestions, but my listings are still not appearing. Has anyone experienced something similar?”
“I'm sure by now most everyone on this subreddit has read Etsy new EPR requirements for the EU (email arrived this morning). As a seller in the USA, I found their email to be very unhelpful overall. I am a small one-man business, I make jewelry and ship in regular cardboard boxes with a small gift box inside with the jewelry articles. Anyone else figure out what we're supposed to do? I also have a Shopify store and am considering just suspending sales to certain countries (Germany, France”
“Yep, this is the scary case. I am leaning toward storing our own hash and keeping a tiny note when Pinterest changes what it gives back, instead of treating every pin as new.”
“The spinning and resetting is not a bug you can fix, it is what the connection actually is. Etsy and Square do not talk to each other. Whatever is bridging them is a third party app polling both platforms on an interval, usually somewhere between 15 minutes and an hour, and pushing whatever it read the last time it checked. During that gap both channels think they have the full count, which is exactly how you oversell, and "spinning forever" is usually that poll failing silently and re”
“This is driving me nuts! It doesn’t show you what you are searching anymore!!!! I have to google what I’m trying to find with Etsy at the end to find anything!! submitted by /u/Used-Nectarine5541 [link] [comments]”
“I made a post recently in the etsy community forums under the "managing your shop" section or whatever and my post appeared in that section just fine, but it never showed in the main discussion feed so of course it went unnoticed since it never popped up on the main page and so I never received any response much less any help or guidance about my issue. Anyone know why this would happen or how to make a post actually circulate in the main discussion forums page with all the other recen”
“Hi guys, Since today I cant post in an etsy forum anymore! What to do? submitted by /u/Grand_Delay7273 [link] [comments]”
“Hi everyone, I've been planning my Etsy shop for months, but gotten stuck at the "How you'll get paid" page with a platform bug. Hoping other sellers (or anyone who's solved this) can share what worked. The bug: On the "How you'll get paid" page, when I select Hong Kong as my Country of Residence, the postal code field disappears from the form. But when I click "Save and continue," it fails with a validation error: *"*Please fix the error on the”
“I make mostly jewelry and keychains. I recently started making mini magnets as a way to use leftover resin. Etsy removed the listing because it allegedly violated their Children and Baby Products Policy. “We prohibit the sale of certain items that may present a high risk of death or injury to children, even if the item is not intended for children.” The email about the listing being removed also said items not allowed included “Small magnets made to resemble candy in both size and shape that cou”
“Recently Etsy updated their Seller Dashboard UI to have a cream/off-white color and updated the font. Isn't it just Claude AI's UI ? submitted by /u/Yaedor [link] [comments]”
“No body seems to have any information and any of the Canada Post workers I’ve spoken to have no idea about the new US certification guidelines for importing. The new regulations roll out today so why is there NO information?! They’ve had since April to come up with a solution for submitting documentation but no one is talking about it. Etsy also hasn’t provided any info, of course (I understand this isn’t Etsy’s problem but they are pretty terrible at supporting sellers with these constant chang”
“I’m trying to understand how Pinterest handles descriptions for pins linked to my products. I want the pin description to be optimized for Pinterest search (with my own keywords and wording), but when the pin is linked to an Etsy listing, Pinterest seems to pull information from the Etsy listing instead. I’m now also testing whether linking the pin to my Etsy shop search URL that shows the specific product (instead of the direct listing URL) could help keep the Pinterest description I write, but”