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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake Easter bulk-order requests, following the same structure as the back-to-school and holiday-season bulk scam variants we’ve tracked earlier this year, this time targeting sellers in personalized Easter basket and gift categories. The setup Several sellers reported messages claiming to represent a school, church group, or community organization requesting a large bulk…
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Mid-March Check-In: How Wedding Season Capacity Is Actually Holding Up
Star Seller status is reviewed by Etsy on the 1st of every month using your last three months of on-time shipping and response data. A capacity gap you catch in mid-March still has time to fix itself before that review; a gap you catch in late April usually doesn’t. Table of Contents Introduction If you…
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Easter’s Final Two and a Half Weeks: Sharpening Your Listings
Consumers are expected to spend a record $24.9 billion on Easter in 2026, an average of $195.59 per person, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey. With the holiday under three weeks out, most of that spending is about to happen fast. Table of Contents Introduction With Easter roughly eighteen days out, a lot…
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Craftybase for Etsy Sellers: What Changed in Their Latest Update
Craftybase for Etsy Sellers: What Changed in Their Latest Update Craftybase’s plans run from $24 a month for a 25-order-a-month starter tier up to $349 a month for high-volume shops, and every tier includes the same multi-level Bill of Materials engine that lets you cost a five-piece custom wedding order as accurately as a single…
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This Week on Etsy: New Category and Attribute Additions
New subcategories and attributes rolled out this cycle, with several additions relevant to both the wedding and Easter categories currently occupying most sellers’ attention. What changed Etsy added new subcategories within wedding-adjacent product areas, along with expanded attribute options for spring and Easter-relevant items, continuing the pattern we noted back in November of category refinement…
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Week in Review — March 15, 2026
St. Patrick’s Day arrives tomorrow, and wedding season and Easter prep both continue building steadily alongside it. Section 230 story: no significant movement this week Consistent with our framing earlier this week, this remains an early-stage legislative discussion without concrete developments to report. We’ll continue monitoring but don’t expect meaningful movement in the near term.…
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Seller Mailbag: Is It Worth Appealing a Creativity Standards Strike?
We’ve covered versions of this question throughout the year, with the answer shifting somewhat as the appeals process matured. With nearly a full year of experience behind us now, worth a version reflecting where things genuinely stand today. “I got a Creativity Standards removal this week, on a wedding-season listing I’m counting on. A year…
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Easter Production Planning: Balancing It Against Wedding Season’s Demands
Easter 2026 falls on April 5, about three and a half weeks out from this article’s publish date, while spring wedding season is ramping toward its own peak at the same time. For shops whose catalogs touch both categories, that overlap is a real capacity problem, not just a scheduling inconvenience. Table of Contents Introduction…
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Easter Keywords: A Deeper Look With the Date Now Under a Month Away
The National Retail Federation projects Easter spending will hit a record $24.9 billion this year, or $195.59 per shopper, and 92% of that spend touches categories an Etsy shop can realistically compete in. With Easter falling on April 5 this year, the holiday is now close enough to warrant a deeper, more specific keyword pass…
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Congress Is Weighing Section 230 Changes — the Risk to Etsy Sellers
Reporting this week highlights growing Congressional discussion around potentially sunsetting or significantly reforming Section 230, the legal provision that shields online platforms, including marketplaces like Etsy, eBay, and Amazon, from liability for content posted by third parties, in this case, individual sellers’ listings. Worth understanding why this matters well beyond the usual social-media-focused framing this…