Week in Review — August 3, 2025

August opens with back-to-school clearly the dominant story, alongside a few threads still carrying over from July.

Back-to-school is the real story now

Multiple sellers across labels, dorm decor, and personalized kids’ items reported their strongest sales week of the summer. This tracks with what we’ve been saying since mid-July: shops that got listings live early are seeing the benefit now, weeks ahead of when most sellers think the “real” season starts.

Boycott conversation has quieted, not disappeared

Message volume tied to the ongoing platform controversy has dropped from its peak in late July but hasn’t gone away entirely. A handful of sellers are still fielding occasional pointed messages, but it’s no longer the dominant theme in seller forums it was two weeks ago.

Creativity Standards appeals: early results trickling in

With the appeals process technically open since mid-July, we’re seeing the first wave of seller reports on outcomes. Too early and too small a sample to draw firm conclusions, but worth noting that at least some appeals are being processed rather than sitting in an unresponsive queue.

Tariff sourcing costs: a new wrinkle

A few sellers reported this week that some overseas suppliers are now proactively quoting tariff-adjusted pricing upfront, rather than sellers discovering the cost increase after the fact. Small thing, but it suggests suppliers are adapting their own pricing practices to the new normal faster than expected.

What we’re watching

Whether the appeals process holds up as volume increases, and how far back-to-school momentum carries shops into the rest of August.

Back Sunday.

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