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Week in Review — February 1, 2026
January closes out with Valentine’s Day now the clear near-term focus, and the discount-transparency story from last week still without a formal Etsy response. Discount story: quiet on Etsy’s end, still discussed by sellers No detailed public statement has emerged addressing last week’s investigative reporting, though seller conversation about their own discount transparency practices has…
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Seller Mailbag: How Do I Price for International Buyers After the Tariff Changes?
We’ve answered versions of this question in September and again in November. With a full year of this new cost environment now behind us, and Valentine’s Day bringing its own smaller wave of international orders, worth a version reflecting what’s actually settled into place versus what’s still evolving. “It’s been almost a year since the…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake “discount audit” or “pricing compliance” messages, riding directly on this week’s news coverage of Etsy’s discount-display scrutiny. The setup Following this week’s investigative reporting on how Etsy represents seller discounts, several sellers reported messages claiming to be from Etsy or an affiliated compliance service, stating their shop’s discount practices are under…
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Is Etsy Lying About Seller Discounts? A Look at the Numbers
Concerns have circulated among sellers this month about how Etsy represents seller-offered discounts to buyers, echoing a pattern raised in earlier trade reporting on Etsy’s automated discount messaging (labels like “Rarely on Sale” or “Biggest sale in X days” that don’t always match a shop’s actual discount history), and raising the same underlying question: whether…
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CedCommerce for Etsy Sellers: 3 Features Most Sellers Never Turn On
Most multichannel sellers connect CedCommerce once, confirm inventory is syncing, and never open the settings panel again. That leaves three of its more useful automation features sitting unused, often for years. Table of Contents Introduction We covered CedCommerce’s core multichannel inventory sync back in September, and our read on it hasn’t changed: it’s a strong,…
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How to Adjust Listings for a New Year Shop Refresh
Etsy caps every shop at 20 custom sections, and most shops walk into January with several of them still organized around a holiday that ended a week ago. Table of Contents Introduction With 2025 now behind us, this is the practical, listing-by-listing version of the broader refresh we talked about on New Year’s Eve, in…
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New Year Shop Refresh: Setting Up January Before the Year Actually Ends
31% of Americans say they’ll make a New Year’s resolution for 2026, according to a YouGov poll fielded December 9-11, 2025, and the search behavior tied to those resolutions, planners, organization, self-improvement, starts climbing before the ball even drops. Table of Contents Introduction With 2025 closing tonight, most sellers are doing one of two things:…
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Closing Out 2025: Year-End Records Worth Pulling Now
Etsy sellers who track cost of goods throughout the year can generate most of their tax-season profit and loss report in minutes rather than reconstructing it from a shoebox of receipts, according to inventory-and-accounting platforms built specifically for makers. Table of Contents Introduction This is the exact five-record pull we recommend to Etsy sellers every…
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Black Friday Is Here: Last-Minute Adjustments Still Worth Making
Last year, Adobe Analytics recorded $11.8 billion in US Black Friday online sales, a record, up 9.1% year over year, with shoppers spending $12.5 million every minute between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Whatever slice of that traffic reaches your shop today, it arrives fast and it doesn’t wait for you to catch up. Table…
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Craftybase for Etsy Sellers: How It Stacks Up Against the Free Alternatives
A shop pricing off last year’s cost assumptions during a high-volume season can discover, only after the fact, that its best-selling holiday item was earning far less than expected. That’s the exact risk this comparison is built to help you avoid before Q4 volume makes the mistake expensive. Table of Contents Introduction Most Etsy sellers…