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  • Week in Review — July 20, 2025

    A more scattered week than usual — nothing dominated the way Creativity Standards has the last few weeks, but a handful of smaller things are worth flagging. Boycott chatter is building We’re watching a growing thread of buyer and seller frustration this week tied to a specific controversial listing category that’s drawn public attention, with…

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  • Week in Review — July 13, 2025

    The Creativity Standards story kept growing this week, and it wasn’t the only thing sellers were talking about. The mailbag is full of one topic We ran a reader question Friday about mysterious listing removals, and honestly could have run ten more just like it. If there’s a single theme running through every seller group…

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  • Week in Review — July 6, 2025

    A short week for most of the US, but not a quiet one in seller forums. Here’s what actually mattered if you sell on Etsy this week. Creativity Standards fallout is still spreading Nearly a month after Etsy quietly rewrote its Creativity Standards to cut “templated designs or patterns” from what counts as original work,…

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