Well back, we had an episode about an Amazon seller, somebody who is selling their products on Amazon, and they had a competitor posting lots of fake reviews, which of course is unethical and unfair and, you know, actually harmed their business.

Today's caller has been dealing with a similar problem, similar but different.

It's not on Amazon, it's on Etsy.

They're experiencing some competition that they feel is kind of out of bounds.

And that's because when you sell on Etsy, Etsy is supposed to be the world's largest

handcrafted marketplace. And everything you Etsy is supposed to be the world's largest handcrafted marketplace,

and everything you sell there is supposed to be handmade. Now, there are some loopholes and workarounds

and such, but you know, you'll be surprised or you won't be, you won't be shocked. Just know that not

everything actually is handmade there. There are a lot of sellers who are secretly or not so secretly

mass manufacturing goods,

even sometimes selling under multiple shops to evade detection. And it's an interesting conflict

for the company, Etsy, because they're making money on all of these transactions, right?

You could say in some ways they're not really incentivized to take care of the problem because

they're like, hey, if we've got people listing items and they're paying our fees, why would we kick them off, you know?

So our caller is wondering, hey, what can be done about this? Like, I've got some competition. I'm not afraid of real competition, but people who are kind of skirting the rules or outright breaking the rules, that seems unfair.

How can I compete with these

unfair Etsy sellers? That's the question from Jamie. You'll hear the full version and my answer

coming right up.

Hey there. My name is Jamie and I'm a big fan.

I've been selling on Etsy, which describes itself as the world's handcrafted marketplace.

But many of the sellers appear to be cheating.

They're selling mass manufactured products in large quantities. Some of them operate multiple storefronts that sell the same thing with slight variations or sometimes

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