#zaful

thinking someone (not me) should start a petition to get etsy to make sellers specify if the items they’re selling aren’t handmade where the items are from, so even if they click “other”, like say it isn’t vintage or thrifted or handmedown, they should have to specify, and that there should be a “new” or not new label. this is so dropshippers, who are just reselling SheIn, Zaful, Alibaba, Aliexpress, etc., are legally obligated to say where their shit is from, instead of skirting by Etsy’s TOS by just avoiding claiming they’re selling handmade stuff (because it used to be that they’d say they were selling handmade items, so you could report them for not actually being handmade, but now they just don’t say “handmade” anymore) and scamming people, because Etsy doesn’t do anything about it because it makes them money but it’s disingenuous about quality and cost and actually outright upcharging people for things. dropshipping for those that aren’t aware is buying from somewhere, usually cheap, like fast fashion sites, or simply cheap Chinese manufacturers, and advertising to people that you are selling those things, and making money off something made elsewhere and by others, and raking in a large profit by listing at waaay higher prices. it’s like landlording online shopping.

etsy dropshippers should be lit on fire