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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…

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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 This week’s version of the pattern: unsolicited messages offering inclusion in a supposed “summer gift guide” or “wedding season…

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  • Father’s Day Production Planning, With Pride Month Right Behind It

    Father’s Day spending is projected to hit a record $27.9 billion in 2026, with average spending per person climbing to $226.58, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey. That volume is landing on shops that are still finishing wedding season orders. Table of Contents Introduction With Father’s Day keywords now live if you followed…

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  • CedCommerce for Etsy Sellers: What Changed in Their Latest Update

    CedCommerce’s newest update adds temporary, time-bound order routing rules built specifically for seasonal volume spikes, rules that automatically revert once a peak like summer wedding season passes, instead of sitting in your settings as a permanent change you have to remember to undo. Table of Contents Introduction Most multichannel sellers set up their routing rules…

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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 since the policy’s confused first month of removals. 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…

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  • Memorial Day and Early Summer Keywords: The Next Transition

    Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Pride Month, and summer/outdoor-living products all fall inside the same late-May-through-June stretch on a standard Etsy seller marketing calendar. These are overlapping priorities, not a sequence of separate campaigns. Table of Contents Introduction Graduation season is winding down, and that’s exactly the moment a lot of Etsy shops lose their footing.…

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  • Graduation’s Peak Week: Executing the Final Push

    Graduation ceremonies aren’t one deadline. Colleges cluster theirs in mid-May, while most high schools run into early-to-mid June, so a shop treating “graduation season” as a single cutoff date is sorting its queue by the wrong clock. Table of Contents Introduction Graduation’s peak week is a compressed, hard-deadline stretch layered on top of a wedding…

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  • Week in Review — May 17, 2026

    Graduation season is now at its genuine peak, with Teacher Appreciation largely wrapped and the familiar bulk-order scam making its expected appearance. Graduation bulk scam confirmed circulating Following Friday’s alert, several additional sellers reported similar rushed class-gift-fund requests this week, consistent with a pattern we anticipated fully given how many times we’ve now seen this…

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  • Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week

    This week’s pattern: fake “class gift fund” bulk requests, a graduation-season variant of the same bulk-order scam structure we’ve now tracked across nearly every major season this year. The setup This week’s version of the pattern, in graduation-relevant categories: messages claiming to represent a school, parent group, or class fund organizing a bulk graduation gift…

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