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Week in Review — August 2, 2026
This week: Etsy’s AI-disclosure policy language settles, mid-year 2026 trends emerge from seller reports, and fall prep ramps up on Crafts Daily Wire.
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Week in Review — July 26, 2026
This week: Etsy tests a new review-prompt flow, the seller forum redesign splits opinion, and back-to-school guide prep starts early on Crafts Daily Wire.
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Week in Review: Offsite Ads Window Talk, a Star Seller Wrinkle, and Your Fraud-Return Questions
This week: sellers compare notes on Etsy’s Offsite Ads window, a possible Star Seller criteria shift, and reader questions on fraudulent return claims.
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Week in Review: July 12, 2026
This week’s recap: the search ranking signal story one week later, how sellers reacted to Friday’s scam alert, and reader responses to last week’s appeals mailbag.
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Week in Review — July 5, 2026
Etsy’s 4th of July weekend played out on schedule, the mailbag revisited the appeals question a year later, and a year of eRank testing wrapped up this week.
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Week in Review — June 28, 2026
Closing out June with Pride Month wrapped, the 4th of July approaching fast, and wedding season continuing its steady summer run. Patriotic bulk-order scam confirmed circulating, exactly as expected Consistent with Friday’s brief alert, a few sellers reported similar rushed bulk-order attempts this week, right on the seasonal schedule this pattern has followed all year.…
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Week in Review — June 21, 2026
Father’s Day falls today, closing out one of June’s three simultaneous priorities, with Pride Month and wedding season both continuing. Father’s Day execution: clean, per most reports Sellers who followed the final-stretch discipline we discussed this week report a smooth close to this specific push, consistent with the pattern we’ve seen at every hard-deadline holiday…
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Week in Review — June 14, 2026
One week out from Father’s Day, with Pride Month at its midpoint and wedding season continuing at what appears to be its annual peak. Father’s Day rush scam confirmed circulating, as expected Consistent with Friday’s brief alert, a handful of sellers reported similar rushed-order attempts this week, exactly the familiar pattern we’ve now documented across…
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Week in Review — June 7, 2026
The first full week of June’s three-way juggling act between Father’s Day, Pride Month, and summer wedding season. Category-isolation approach helping sellers sort out real signal from noise Following Friday’s mailbag piece, several sellers specifically mentioned that breaking down their stats by individual category, rather than looking at an aggregate view, resolved confusion that had…
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Week in Review — May 31, 2026
Closing out May with Father’s Day and Pride Month both ahead, and summer wedding season’s peak still building. Father’s Day and Pride Month planning underway Following our coverage this week, sellers report getting Father’s Day listings live with the hobby and humor-driven framing we discussed, while beginning thoughtful Pride Month preparation for shops where it…