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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake “summer sale partnership” pitches, a warm-weather variant of the promotional-feature scams we’ve tracked at multiple points this year, adapted to the summer wedding and Father’s Day shopping season now underway. The setup Several sellers reported unsolicited messages this week offering inclusion in a supposed “summer gift guide” or “wedding season roundup”…
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Father’s Day Production Planning, With Pride Month Right Behind It
With Father’s Day keywords now live if you followed Wednesday’s guidance, this is the point to think through production planning for the holiday itself, while also getting Pride Month, which runs through all of June, onto your radar. Father’s Day’s production considerations, distinct from Mother’s Day’s Given the hobby-specific and humor-driven framing we discussed this…
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Father’s Day Keywords: Getting Ahead of June’s Gift-Giving Occasion
With Memorial Day now behind us and summer wedding season the dominant background story, this is the point to give Father’s Day the same early, dedicated attention we gave Mother’s Day back in April. Father’s Day search behavior differs from Mother’s Day in a few real ways “Gift for dad,” “gift for husband,” and “gift…
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CedCommerce for Etsy Sellers: What Changed in Their Latest Update
We covered CedCommerce’s multichannel sync back in September and its underused deeper features in January. With summer wedding season’s expected peak approaching, worth checking what’s new for multichannel sellers managing that volume across more than one platform. What’s new The platform added enhanced order routing rules specifically designed for seasonal volume spikes, allowing sellers to…
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This Week on Etsy: Messaging and Inbox Changes
A messaging interface refinement this cycle, arriving as attention shifts fully toward summer wedding season’s expected peak. What changed Etsy made further adjustments to message threading and response-time display, continuing the periodic refinements we’ve tracked at several points throughout the year, this time apparently incorporating feedback related to the Purchase Protection changes, since disputes now…
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Week in Review — May 24, 2026
Graduation season has wrapped, Memorial Day approaches this weekend, and attention is fully shifting toward summer wedding season’s expected peak. Graduation season: a strong, clean close Sellers in relevant categories report a solid final stretch, consistent with the discipline we discussed throughout the month, with the class-gift-fund scam pattern the only real disruption worth noting.…
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Seller Mailbag: Is It Worth Appealing a Creativity Standards Strike?
We’ve covered this question at nearly every point throughout the past year, watching the appeals process mature considerably over that time. With summer wedding season now the priority, worth one more version reflecting where things stand. “A wedding-category listing just got flagged right as summer season is ramping up. Given everything we’ve discussed about this…
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Summer Wedding Peak Prep: Adjusting Production for the Season’s Busiest Stretch
With graduation season closing out and Memorial Day marking an informal start to summer, wedding season is entering what’s typically its highest-volume stretch of the entire year. Worth a dedicated look at adjusting production for this specific peak. Revisit your capacity planning with a full spring’s worth of real data We built an initial capacity…
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Memorial Day and Early Summer Keywords: The Next Transition
With graduation season winding down, this is the point to shift attention toward Memorial Day and the broader early-summer transition, following the same early-mover principle we’ve applied all year. Memorial Day is a smaller category, similar in scale to the narrower holidays we’ve covered Like St. Patrick’s Day back in March, Memorial Day represents a…
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Extuitive for Etsy Sellers: What Changed in Their Latest Update
We covered Extuitive’s policy-compliance guidance back in September and its continued relevance heading into 2026 back in January. With the Purchase Protection overhaul and other policy developments this spring, worth checking what’s evolved. What’s new The platform has updated its guidance to reflect this spring’s Purchase Protection changes specifically, translating the new dispute mechanics and…