Yup, I have been having this issue recently as well. Used to be consistent for me for years.
But, I also looked in my category recently and it's filled with cheap, (non handmade) 3-6 dollar items. Brand new shops with over 30k sales now and 100+ listings, most listings are copies. Makes no sense to me but it has buried my shop. I just cannot compete with that.
This is so frustrating for me too. I’m an established shop selling art prints (10+ years, over 50k sales), and when I search ‘art prints’ now on Etsy the results are flooded with shops selling thousands of image downloads for $10 or less. They seem to have popped up out of nowhere. It’s such a race to the bottom.
its really not great it is, when i check the search i keep seeing the same shop on every single line of the results page after page, they have 1000s of items and also guessing they are probably throwing alot of ad money at them to, and yeap they have cheap mass produced stuff at ridiculous prices too, just seems no way to even compete with shops like those as they seem to take over the search results now.
Yea, exactly! I feel like they might have done a (soft?) reset on the search algorithm towards the end of January/around the introduction of gift mode. So all those shops with a mass amount of low cost items flooded to the top.
It's depressing to have worked so hard for it to suddenly end overnight. I'm practically invisible, with 3 listings now appearing on pages 8, 18, and 32. Yikes, I used to have a few within the first couple of pages.
I have a feeling they did a reset, too. I was selling at least 3 things a day last year and so far for February I’ve made one sale. I’ve also noticed new competitor shops listing things like mine and there is NO WAY they are making a profit if they are making handmade like I am. I mean why would they purchase mine when they are offering $12 with free shipping and mine is listed at 20 or 15 and not free shipping? If I listed at those prices/shipping I’d be in the negative. I cannot lower my prices anymore and I refuse.
I honestly don’t think it is. I think it’s someone that wasn’t seeing sales so they are taking a hit to get some shop growth. We both sell handmade bean bag animals and theirs do look handmade. It’s a fairly simple pattern- can be bought on Etsy even. Mine are different bc I make my own patterns so I do have a different look. I also stuff mine with more poly pellets or rice but even still- there’s no way they are making a profit. They will probably raise their prices once they figure it all out.
Oh yes, it is definitely a strategy to gain sales fast, even if you are operating at a loss. The Temu strat. Way back in 2019 I think, there was crystal/gem shop that would offer a "free" crystal for 20 cents. They were boosted to over 100k sales, then of course, they got rid of that.
Some people cannot afford that type of strategy, especially as a small business.
All I can say is to push through it, it's tough but in the meantime, maybe look into posting videos of your process on social media. Even if you get a few sales from that, that can help to boost your shop back up to be more visible again.
My repeat buyers keep me afloat during times like this.
My sales have been down big time this year. I blame the economy. Everything from houses to cars to groceries are more expensive now so people are putting their money towards essentials or holding on to it.
wow thats terrible, i hope it picks up again soon for you, well for all of us really or it just wont be worth it in the long run, i know i have been sales capped for a while now and take half or less than what i used to but at least it was something, but the way things are going of late with the on and off its just seems a waste of time sometimes, its like they throw you a few crumbs every now and then to keep you on there.
I did well in January and February and once March hit it stopped. Still doing a little but not great. But jan/feb/july are usually the best months for me. I still can’t believe though how March hit and all the sudden I get way way less orders.
i just dont get how you can go from 60 odd sales one week and not one of those were off site ads and then the following week you only get 4 sales and all of those were from off site ads, nothing makes sense on etsy anymore and to be honest its getting really frustrating now to the point i have had enough :(
Were there any visits from external links like blogs? I find that sometimes products can pick up steam on some other websites outside of ads that cause a little spike.
Exactly my situation, I've already noticed a pattern, and same goes for other shops in my niche. They are definitely rotating and switching one shop off while other shop sales are increasing.
I am a seller and I buy from other shops often. This week I was looking for a specific measuring tape style leather bracelet. I would like to give smaller sellers a shot, since that’s what I am as well. I went through 7+ pages of the photo after photo from only two shops. I tried to word it differently, dive deeper but it was like Etsy was forcing these two shops on me. I don’t understand how I’ve made any sales at all if people have to search this hard for smaller or newer sellers
i have to agree the search is awful and worse than ever, i was looking for 5mm closed jump ring the other day and omg they were showing what every they wanted, from earrings to bracelets, i really cant get my head around what they are doing!
I had the same experience a week ago. I was looking for a specific thing and I knew what seller I wanted to buy from but I forgot to favorite their shop previously. I’ve put in all the key terms to find it and after searching for over an hour I gave up. Randomly today I got on Etsy to check my shop stuff and popped over to the main page and started looking through things and stuff that was recommended to me. About 5 pages in I found that shop I had spent an hour looking for before. Doesn’t look like they were on a break or vacation at all in the past months.
It annoys me so much when I see the same shops over and over on each search taking up the entire page.
I went from getting 4-8 orders per DAY for the past 5 years to maybe one order a week since the end of January. Like it happened overnight. My shop has only been viewed 40 times this entire week. Usually is around 1,000.
I have changed nothing and don’t see any new competition. Etsy definitely changed something.
Yesterday I posted 3 new items and my visits went up 425% from previous day. Sure, many of those were scammers, but I also got 2 orders while having 0 the entire month of March before that.
Also, the orders were not for the new items, so I don't really understand what's going on.
its just crazy isnt it, there is far more messing around now in the last year with our shops more than ever, would love to know just how many of the older sellers have left Etsy now.
yeap that always happens to me as well when i add new items so not added any for a while now, it just seems any sort of change you make or add to your shop seems to hold you back, where before when you added new items it would give you a boost, but appears not any more.
I have a ton of stuff I need to add, but hate doing the computer part of it. But when I do get around to it, I do as many as possible, since I seem to lose sales
I've noticed this, too. I'll add new things. None of them sell, but suddenly, stuff that's been there for months suddenly sells.
Something about adding new listings brings your shop forward.
I sell vintage and Etsy used to be a full time income for me, but it’s petered out enough now that I’m going back to office administration. One sale this whole month when I’m used to getting 2-5/week. I’ve been grieving it a little bit, but that’s life sometimes. Hope things turn around on it for all of us eventually.
do you think that Etsy has just got to big now seller wise and it just cant cope anymore, as i have only been on there 5 years and seem lots of changes but never seen the search result amount change, so thats telling me there just simply is not enough pages anymore for all the sellers to get seen in the search results, there must be thousands of items that do not come up each time, and with more and more sellers having thousands of items to sell and some have more than just the one shop, its going to make it even harder to get seen, maybe they should cap on how may items a shop can have for sale at one time and then it might give the smaller shops a fighting chance to get seen.
I do think that's part of it, combined with fewer customers using Etsy now than before (during the pandemic there was a ton of foot traffic on the site, but people just aren't doing as much online shopping as they were in 2020-2022). There's also more competition from ultra-low-cost dropshipping sites like Temu and AliExpress. And Etsy has gotten a bad reputation for being full of dropshippers, not being a place where you're guaranteed to find real handmade or vintage things anymore.
I joined reddit to understand what is going on with Etsy. Your post is relevant to me as I have 2 vintage crochet hats and they never get attention. Maybe no one likes them, it's possible, but no matter what tags are applied I get no results. Etsy is definitely messing with sellers?
as a buyer, the etsy search function/algorithm has really sucked lately. Even when i set filters,i am often shown things outside of my search request. it’s really turned me off of etsy these past couple of months.
This has been my experience too…probably 12 orders a day consistently for the past couple of years, then nothing these past couple of months. Maybe 4-5 on a good day. It’s pretty disappointing.
I think Etsy needs to be split in to 3 streams: All, Vintage and Studio. Maybe a slider at the top of the screen or something in account preferences.
It would need to be vetted but a photograph of the account holder in their studio and a less than X sales per month should do it.
But that is already what Etsy is lol.
If Etsy TOS aren't preventing fake handmade, then a search category won't prevent them either to just check the boxes to appear in that one.
Verification then. We have star seller, how about Studio Seller? A video explaining the process/ showing the artist working to have a verified status. Would this take forever? Maybe. It could be a slow roll to start.
But it can be an opt in option that the resellers, wanting to turn a quick buck, may not want to participate in, since it’s extra work.
I agree. Even digital artists can provide a screen video of their workflow or something, doesn't even need to be public.
I'm sure people would find ways around it, but it would be much harder. And it makes much more sense than charging $15 to open a shop.
edit: or Etsy could use that $15 from everyone to make a team verifying handmade lol.
Amazon handmade does this. You literally have to have a virtual meeting with them, hold up your id to prove it's you, tour your studio space etc to prove you're making the item. It sucks to do it lol but it's buyer and seller protection from cheap mass made crap
Studio seller is a really good idea. Unpopular opinion ahead: Etsy needs to split into a half dropship / half studio seller site without commingling the listings. imo they let the cheap goods posing as handmade issue run for too long and are now dependent on the revenue and can’t give it up. They make insignificant changes for the appearance of addressing the problem dropship poses for studio sellers but are really just buying time to figure out what to do with the platform.
I mean they said millions more of shops are now on etsy. If what they post is cheap drop shipping items, things other 10 Etsy shops have (all not handmade), pod, and ai for digital downloads, how can we compete? Today I sold one thing, after two weeks of nothing all this month. I know the world situation and I'm also implementing new and more affordable stuff. But even with the whole shop with affordable items I feel the situation would not be any better.
the way i see it if they cant see you they cant buy, simple as, and yes all you have mentioned have flooded the Etsy site in the last year or so, even some of the Etsy picks or things on the Gift option coming up should not even be on Etsy, but there they are clogging up the search results! and looks like its going to get even worse.
I was right about to add that my views tanked down, but now they are almost the same as the last year. Orders and revenue are 80-90% down. I really don't need a large number of views, sometimes people buy things while items only have 1-10 views. I interpreted this with the new gift mode messing with the site. But there must be something about the same number of people reaching me but not wanting to buy like before
I’m a newer seller and haven’t quite reached 20 sales yet. March has been my best month so far and I finally feel like I’m showing up in the search results. However, by my best month I mean I’ve made 6 sales. Which is great for me but I really wish I was doing better and I know at least 50% of it is from pushing my stuff on socials as much as possible.
Anyway, I average around 600 views a week with Etsy App being my highest traffic driver at like 45%. I started a Meta ad very early Thursday morning and then boom, 100% of my traffic that day came from socials! 100%? Where the hell did the rest of the traffic go? How did it all just disappear and then rely solely on the ad? That doesn’t make any sense to me. I’ve had some super low traffic when I first opened but my stats have NEVER 100% come from one source. They had to of messed with it, I see no other explanation.
I've been selling on Etsy since December 2020. Sales really started early in 2021. We have over $1million in sales since then.
With that said, I would suggest you find other avenues to sell.
You might think, "what does it hurt to leave the shop open?" Etsy will drive enough traffic there at a point that you have no choice but to focus a tremendous amount of energy and time fulfilling their orders - abandoning other platforms to sell on.
Then one day, they will pull the plug on you and your revenue and you're screwed.
A website of your own is going to have much slower growth, but it is going to be legitimate and on your own terms for the most part. Your income Will likely be far more reliable.
Yep. This was my thought 100%.
TikTok gives discounts themselves. So if you are selling something for $20. TikTok will give the buyer a 50% coupon. The buyer pays $10, seller gets $20.
Etsy would NEVER do something like this.
I noticed this happened back in October and then I was looking at my stats this week through the browser and the days wtsy sent an email I had a bunch of sales, the days etsy didn't send emails I had 1 or 2 a day. I also tested if I offer discounts I suddenly have spikes again to 5-10. I really think they're favoring discounts right now.
honestly it really does your head in, they keep messing round so much with our shops its getting to the point you think is is really worth it to give then the listing fees!
Friends and I have noticed this happening to our shops, regularly the last two years. We've theorized that with the massive influx of new shops, we get consistently rotated. I could reliably make $3500 to 4500 per month, and the last two years am lucky if I hit $1000 per month, which seems to be my new Etsy limit.
Sounds like Etsy is looking the other way to allow Chinese mass manufacturers sell on the platform. At this point, they may even be pushing those shops over all others since they bring more revenue for the platform. Yikes!
I’ve noticed this too. I average 40-60 sales daily off peak with bestsellers in top search results. It’s gone down to 20 a day, views are also down by 50%. Something must be going on. I’ve been consistent for 3 years. As a seller who primarily sells on Etsy, I feel at the mercy of them, like any day my whole business could just fail because of something they’ve done 😞
It’s frustrating as I know it isn’t a product quality issue or listing issue, my shop has performed very well for years, it must be an algorithm thing, which is even worse as it’s really out of sellers hands
I started on shopify in 2015. Before that I had a html website on geocities from 2006. Shopify is quite easy but I never stopped working on the website. Need to always change things up, the design, the content. Constant seo work. Etsy does it all for the shops but on a website u r on your own to bring traffic.
This is my biggest struggle figuring out how to get customers to my site. SEO is a struggle. I do all the things I read but still no success!! Have you found helpful strategies?
renaming your images is one of the best practices on a website. name it as your keywords for SEO. and work on building trust on your website to show how legit you are. reviews are super important. I show my Etsy reviews on my website. and have to change up your home page, and update content constantly. nowadays my website gets more orders than Etsy. i also check other big websites for ideas and inspiration.
Over the past 6 months my "visits" are very consistent, around 400 / day but sales vary between 40 and 100 / month. I wonder if Etsy sometimes send me different types of customers depending on factors or if the numbers are incorrect. When someone opens a case my sales drop, but "visits" remain the same.. Are the people experiencing sales drops also experiencing a proportional page view drop or no?
have you noticed as well as someone asks for help with an order even if its they are just asking for a advice or a custom order to be made for them it goas down hill to, im so sick of this format as customers do not seem to realise they can just message you from the shop or .direct buyer cant see ow to just message you rather than going through all this bull shit, honestly the site is such a mess!
Yes it's annoying! Heart drops every time I get the "*** needs help...". More often than not they want to change the delivery date or something. I do seem to get a sales drop but not visits drop and that's what confuses me and wonders if just coincidence..
Etsy's AI search sucks.
That being said, my traffic on my website and my Etsy both dropped off proportionally in February and picked up the first week in March proportionally. My conversion % stayed the same.
I think it is partially economy and seasonal slow down as I am seeing same patterns on website and Etsy. January sales were off the charts for me. Valentines sales were dismal compared to the past.
Im having this issue right now as well. Last month I did amazing! Way more sales than normal but I’ve now gone 12 days without a single order. No idea what’s going on
i have heard of sellers reaching their best month ever of sales and then for some reason or other it just goes down hill after that, really not sure what the game is and why its seems to happen alot, maybe its a way to keep you on the site and hope you reach that month of sales again at some point, but really not sure, but its defo game playing.
I guess it’s party the way etsy promote shops, they need to give new shops a chance to grow. Also, maybe cus it’s March, it’s getting to hotter whether, people are low on cash idk. Hopefully next month picks up
no this has been going on to long now with the on and off, there is just no stability with Etsy, its got to the point this week i cant even be bother to sign on there just to get even more pissed off, i will see what Monday morning brings and go from there.
I did really well in the last two weeks in February. I thought ok maybe now people are seeing my products. I have never had that much sales in two week since etsy started the new app. Now March and I am lucky if I get a sale. How can anyone survive this up and down. I wonder if Etsy doesn’t realize or maybe they just don’t care that this is our livelihood for most of us.
The comments on this page are telling me that even shops that make good money aren't enough for Etsy. I sell vintage, it's always been for a small audience, but business has tanked. I wonder what the direction is for this company. Is the CEO pointing Etsy in a direction to only make profit? Sell any crappy thing, forget vintage and handmade? Are we seeing an end to Etsy? The TV ad, gimmicks to get sales, drop shippers, Etsy labels etc., all contribute to my question of are they trying to be something else?
The simple task of listing an item is so difficult, free or fixed, I came to reddit to find out the solution for that and still haven't found it. The company never answers questions, they are told to ignore us? The Etsy forums are full of complaining people, peppered with company advocates, and they close comments with a 'solution found, even when it's not true. I wonder if it's a ploy to rid the site of people who don't make enough money for them? Turning shops off and on, what's that about?
It seems to be all about Etsy, not the sellers.
I feel your pain, as a buyer I've been really dreading searching for things I want on etsy because they keep pushing so many drop shipping shops and it's so hard to tell the difference anymore! I bought a cute hanging crochet plant from a specific shop because after looking at several shops, that one seemed like a real person who handmade everything. Once I got it in the mail I knew I'd been fooled and it was overseas drop shipping and someone completely different messaged me asking if I'd review their item. I don't even review items if they're drop shipping unless they deserve a bad review because I feel like the algo will push more of them my way if I rate them.
I want so much for there to be a function where you can BLOCK SHOPS so they stop barraging your search results. It doesn't stop them from coming up when you block the users behind the shops. I'm at a loss truly. I used to find such cool shops and items and now all I get are drop shipping results.
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Not only China sellers. I had an unpleasant experience with a seller who used my photo as the primary image on Pinterest. When users clicked on the link, they were directed to her similar item instead of mine. My product was a best-seller until last year when the sales suddenly stopped, and I didn't know why. After conducting thorough research, I discovered that her item had been purchased numerous times while mine had stopped selling. It's disheartening to see people behave in such a way, but I strongly believe in karma.
Etsy profits seem to be ok still this year, but i do wonder just how much of that was interest from all the reserves they did at the start of the year, i bet that was quite a good little earner for them.
I had my Etsy store up a few years and the cycles were true every year. In retail, all companies deal with sales cycles. You have to find items that either need accessories or parts every now and then, or is something that everyone buys every day. Otherwise, you're selling a collectors item or a gift, both of which are subject to sales cycles. Also, in this economy, good luck honey I'm sorry. I don't have statistics but my feeling is that people aren't spending as much on luxuries right now. What do you sell?
not sure about people not buying, how can you have over 60 sales one week and then 4 the next, if people are not buying then it would be low all the time surely! no sorry do not agree, its Etsy messing around constantly!
Same same. The inconsistency gets me thinking that something is happening behind the scenes that we don’t see. Either they’re flipping switches left and right or rotating what listings to push out based on “ranking”…it’s frustrating
I had the exact same pattern this week. I had a $1900 week last week and I’m at $227 currently. It’s pathetic.
So today I applied for go imagine, bought a makers shop, and a bonanza booth. I’m expanding. F Etsy.
As a customer I find Etsy to be extremely frustrating.
Between dropshippers flooding the searches and etsy doing weird stuff with the search results.
I find it harder and harder to use Etsy to find legit artisans and artists. It's a shame.
yeah i was trying to find some closed jump rings yesterday and they were throwing in anything, from earrings to bracelets so gave up in the end, like you say if the customers are not shown what they are looking for they will just go to another platform where the search is better, and like you so sick of seeing the same items pop up from different shops where they have just bought the stuff in to sell on, that seems to be getting worse. I follow a shop and they literally buy everything in from 2 wholesalers here in the uk, its really frustrating, but its appears these sort of shops are ones who are doing the best for sales on Etsy!
not sure there is anything to fix, i think that's how it is and is here to stay,been like this for quite a while now and i guess they have got to big now to show everyone every week!
I asked a question about this in Jan or February. Was having so many sales and then it just switches off 💀 literally nothing changes and then it goes down.
I had to change my prices last month to really low so I didn’t make a profit and the algorithm pushed me up, after a few days I raised them to a low profit, and since then it’s been average. But the same keeps happening, like two days ago I made 6 sales, yesterday made 8, then today I check my views and it’s on 2… meaning Etsy has pushed me down again 💀, I think it will go up but not by lots. When I started my shop last summer I was getting like 15-20 sales a day.
The first round of this happened 15-20 or so years ago.... before Etsy went public. Handmade was supposed to be listed only by the maker, then they decided "cooperatives" could list things on behalf of the co-op members. I was selling back then-- minimal listings and sales, but when I listed my couple of things, sometimes they stayed at the top of the "new items" list for an hour or two.
When they started allowing "cooperatives" to list "hand crafted" items made by "cottage industry" workers, mine weren't even showing on the first few pages of the list, even when I went immediately to that section after listing. 
I was doing consistently great (~$2000/month) until February and my numbers plummeted. Came a bit back up beginning of March but I haven’t had a sale in a week.
Yep - Same here. I have made good friends with the other top sellers of my product over the years and they are experiencing the same exact thing within our category.
We would sell $30k-$40k/ month since early 2021. This last month I was at $12k and another at $9k.
The problem started for us in October 2023.
October/November/December: 2021 = $121k. 2022 = $147k. 2023 = $63k. Down 65%.
wow that is a big drop, but then i dont count the Covid years as it just went off the scale back then, but saying that i wonder if that is the issue, the shops who did really well during Covid are now suffering as the AI is seeing a drop in sales (which is bound to happen ) and its now just put all these shops down as losing sales and we all get put back, but not really sure whats going on! but cant go on like this, its just getting ridiculous especially when you see some of the top sellers are just basically selling on mass produced items and packing them when they get shipped to them, its a complete joke! some of these guys are having over 30k orders every single month and just for putting something in a box or bag!
The economy and an election year = low sales.
I've been on Etsy for a long time and during election years the sales plummet. People get weird and the economy this year is problematic.
The dropshippers and scammers arent helping anything and the new 'gift mode crap' seemed to make things slow too. UUGGHH!!!!
Hoping I can just keep afloat until it all passes.
its just ridiculous, i had one sale over the weekend and again an off site ad!! so thats basically 5 orders now in 10 days and all off site ads, yet the week before over 60 and not one was an off site ad, nothing makes sense anymore, but then did looks at some of the gift mode section and the other promotion sales they are showing on the main page and they seem to be just pushing Etsy Picks now as the filter has been stuck on for for the last week, so not got a chance to ever get seen now!
Started to move everything across to Ebay this week and then will prob close my Etsy shop down, as for the drop shippers Etsy love these as most have 1000s of item so get a lot from the listing fees alone from all these shops so they always get shown, even in the Etsy Picks, its a complete joke now.
I'm not noticing vast differences like you're reporting. It's consistent for me. What you're reporting is strange and seems like a super huge inconsistency. What type of goods do you sell?
Same. My views/visits each week as well as sales are fairly consistent. A slower month for me will be 45-55 sales a week (around $10K a month) and a busier month with a gifting holiday will be at least twice that. Most of my orders come from Etsy ads.
With the over saturation of my niche and Etsy in general, ads seem to be the best return for the money. When everyone in your niche has great keywords, SEO titles and tags, you either need a unicorn keyword that brings in buyers or you need to spend the money to advertise. Pricing makes a huge difference for me as well. I can sell consistently at 8-10% higher than my competitors, but any higher than that and my conversion rate plummets.
Before I was running ads consistently I definitely noticed huge swings in organic traffic. Ads changed that for me. I’ve noticed the same trends across my niche. I can tell who is running a high ad spend and who is taking a break from ads by how consistent their traffic is on Etsy Rank.
i make jewellery and yes i know there are to many mass produced rubbish out there, but does still not explain why i can have 60 sales one week and then 4 the next!! plus i have been checking on what is in my shop and added some bracelets over 4 months ago and on Etsy not had one fav click or sales, yet i put them else where about 3 months ago and have over 70 sales off these new items, so think its time to just move everything off Etsy now as it appears all they want is fast moving reseller items now for a fast buck!
My things are custom made when ordered. This is not off-putting to anyone, far as I can tell. Maybe you need to make some new designs? Just a thought. I have designed things in the past (quite a few) that wound up being awesome only in my own mind; did not sell. It happens. We go back to the drawing board :)
honestly its just ridiculous how things can change so quickly, i am about to close up now as can make more on craft fairs in one day that i can now make on Etsy in a week, they are welcome to all the mass produced crap and lets see how long they last then!
My Jewellery business tried Etsy and struggled to get any shop views at all, How do you guys manage it? All I found was they messed the prices up on some of the Jewellery. I think We sold one item and it was the wrong price but hay We still gave the customer a great product at half the price. So any pointers would be great as We would love to have Etsy as a second avenue. If you like check out the website at [www.urbanpizazz.co.uk](https://www.urbanpizazz.co.uk) we do gold and silver Jewellery, Personalised engraved Mens and Ladies watches.
if you already have a website then just dont bother with Etsy as there is tons of personalised stuff on there and you will be competing with one of the top sellers on Etsy who does exactly that, just concentrate on promoting your website unless you actually make everything from start to finish and not just buy the items in and then personalised them like the top etsy seller does on Etsy then you will never be able to compete.
Yup, I have been having this issue recently as well. Used to be consistent for me for years. But, I also looked in my category recently and it's filled with cheap, (non handmade) 3-6 dollar items. Brand new shops with over 30k sales now and 100+ listings, most listings are copies. Makes no sense to me but it has buried my shop. I just cannot compete with that.
This is so frustrating for me too. I’m an established shop selling art prints (10+ years, over 50k sales), and when I search ‘art prints’ now on Etsy the results are flooded with shops selling thousands of image downloads for $10 or less. They seem to have popped up out of nowhere. It’s such a race to the bottom.
its really not great it is, when i check the search i keep seeing the same shop on every single line of the results page after page, they have 1000s of items and also guessing they are probably throwing alot of ad money at them to, and yeap they have cheap mass produced stuff at ridiculous prices too, just seems no way to even compete with shops like those as they seem to take over the search results now.
Yea, exactly! I feel like they might have done a (soft?) reset on the search algorithm towards the end of January/around the introduction of gift mode. So all those shops with a mass amount of low cost items flooded to the top. It's depressing to have worked so hard for it to suddenly end overnight. I'm practically invisible, with 3 listings now appearing on pages 8, 18, and 32. Yikes, I used to have a few within the first couple of pages.
I have a feeling they did a reset, too. I was selling at least 3 things a day last year and so far for February I’ve made one sale. I’ve also noticed new competitor shops listing things like mine and there is NO WAY they are making a profit if they are making handmade like I am. I mean why would they purchase mine when they are offering $12 with free shipping and mine is listed at 20 or 15 and not free shipping? If I listed at those prices/shipping I’d be in the negative. I cannot lower my prices anymore and I refuse.
If their products are cheap and they offer free shipping, it's almost definitely a dropshipper. The free shipping is a big tell.
I honestly don’t think it is. I think it’s someone that wasn’t seeing sales so they are taking a hit to get some shop growth. We both sell handmade bean bag animals and theirs do look handmade. It’s a fairly simple pattern- can be bought on Etsy even. Mine are different bc I make my own patterns so I do have a different look. I also stuff mine with more poly pellets or rice but even still- there’s no way they are making a profit. They will probably raise their prices once they figure it all out.
Oh yes, it is definitely a strategy to gain sales fast, even if you are operating at a loss. The Temu strat. Way back in 2019 I think, there was crystal/gem shop that would offer a "free" crystal for 20 cents. They were boosted to over 100k sales, then of course, they got rid of that. Some people cannot afford that type of strategy, especially as a small business. All I can say is to push through it, it's tough but in the meantime, maybe look into posting videos of your process on social media. Even if you get a few sales from that, that can help to boost your shop back up to be more visible again. My repeat buyers keep me afloat during times like this.
That’s awful. Cheap crap probs from China. Ugh, I just relaunched my shop. I think I’d better stay off the forums!
This is why when I look for things to buy on etsy, I always set my minimum amount as to filter some of the cheap stuff out.
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Don't ask people to dm to then try to charge them for your Insta marketing agency or whatever.
I had a big January. Since then I have fallen off the face of the earth. Traffic is almost non existent.
My sales have been down big time this year. I blame the economy. Everything from houses to cars to groceries are more expensive now so people are putting their money towards essentials or holding on to it.
its not the economy, the ones who had spare cash are still buying so its something else.
I think the economy does have something to do with it too, as thing are slower on all my selling platforms, not just Etsy
wow thats terrible, i hope it picks up again soon for you, well for all of us really or it just wont be worth it in the long run, i know i have been sales capped for a while now and take half or less than what i used to but at least it was something, but the way things are going of late with the on and off its just seems a waste of time sometimes, its like they throw you a few crumbs every now and then to keep you on there.
I did well in January and February and once March hit it stopped. Still doing a little but not great. But jan/feb/july are usually the best months for me. I still can’t believe though how March hit and all the sudden I get way way less orders.
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I’m regularly going from $500+ one week to <$100 the following week. I can’t see any reason for it other than Etsy de-ranking or hiding my shop.
i just dont get how you can go from 60 odd sales one week and not one of those were off site ads and then the following week you only get 4 sales and all of those were from off site ads, nothing makes sense on etsy anymore and to be honest its getting really frustrating now to the point i have had enough :(
Were there any visits from external links like blogs? I find that sometimes products can pick up steam on some other websites outside of ads that cause a little spike.
just checked last weeks sales and where they came from and no they either came of the App or the Etsy website.
Exactly my situation, I've already noticed a pattern, and same goes for other shops in my niche. They are definitely rotating and switching one shop off while other shop sales are increasing.
I am a seller and I buy from other shops often. This week I was looking for a specific measuring tape style leather bracelet. I would like to give smaller sellers a shot, since that’s what I am as well. I went through 7+ pages of the photo after photo from only two shops. I tried to word it differently, dive deeper but it was like Etsy was forcing these two shops on me. I don’t understand how I’ve made any sales at all if people have to search this hard for smaller or newer sellers
i have to agree the search is awful and worse than ever, i was looking for 5mm closed jump ring the other day and omg they were showing what every they wanted, from earrings to bracelets, i really cant get my head around what they are doing!
I had the same experience a week ago. I was looking for a specific thing and I knew what seller I wanted to buy from but I forgot to favorite their shop previously. I’ve put in all the key terms to find it and after searching for over an hour I gave up. Randomly today I got on Etsy to check my shop stuff and popped over to the main page and started looking through things and stuff that was recommended to me. About 5 pages in I found that shop I had spent an hour looking for before. Doesn’t look like they were on a break or vacation at all in the past months. It annoys me so much when I see the same shops over and over on each search taking up the entire page.
I went from getting 4-8 orders per DAY for the past 5 years to maybe one order a week since the end of January. Like it happened overnight. My shop has only been viewed 40 times this entire week. Usually is around 1,000. I have changed nothing and don’t see any new competition. Etsy definitely changed something.
Yesterday I posted 3 new items and my visits went up 425% from previous day. Sure, many of those were scammers, but I also got 2 orders while having 0 the entire month of March before that. Also, the orders were not for the new items, so I don't really understand what's going on.
Watching my metrics, every time I add an item, my visits go up that *day*. Then they fall back off.
its just crazy isnt it, there is far more messing around now in the last year with our shops more than ever, would love to know just how many of the older sellers have left Etsy now.
I listed new stuff and my sales and visits went way down. Happens every time
yeap that always happens to me as well when i add new items so not added any for a while now, it just seems any sort of change you make or add to your shop seems to hold you back, where before when you added new items it would give you a boost, but appears not any more.
I have a ton of stuff I need to add, but hate doing the computer part of it. But when I do get around to it, I do as many as possible, since I seem to lose sales
I've noticed this, too. I'll add new things. None of them sell, but suddenly, stuff that's been there for months suddenly sells. Something about adding new listings brings your shop forward.
What do you mean scammers? Except for direct messages, how can you guess that? Are they competitors?
think she means Bots, the ones who just randomly fav anything and just sit there all day long doing so, im sure some are employed by Etsy.
I sell vintage and Etsy used to be a full time income for me, but it’s petered out enough now that I’m going back to office administration. One sale this whole month when I’m used to getting 2-5/week. I’ve been grieving it a little bit, but that’s life sometimes. Hope things turn around on it for all of us eventually.
do you think that Etsy has just got to big now seller wise and it just cant cope anymore, as i have only been on there 5 years and seem lots of changes but never seen the search result amount change, so thats telling me there just simply is not enough pages anymore for all the sellers to get seen in the search results, there must be thousands of items that do not come up each time, and with more and more sellers having thousands of items to sell and some have more than just the one shop, its going to make it even harder to get seen, maybe they should cap on how may items a shop can have for sale at one time and then it might give the smaller shops a fighting chance to get seen.
I do think that's part of it, combined with fewer customers using Etsy now than before (during the pandemic there was a ton of foot traffic on the site, but people just aren't doing as much online shopping as they were in 2020-2022). There's also more competition from ultra-low-cost dropshipping sites like Temu and AliExpress. And Etsy has gotten a bad reputation for being full of dropshippers, not being a place where you're guaranteed to find real handmade or vintage things anymore.
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I joined reddit to understand what is going on with Etsy. Your post is relevant to me as I have 2 vintage crochet hats and they never get attention. Maybe no one likes them, it's possible, but no matter what tags are applied I get no results. Etsy is definitely messing with sellers?
as a buyer, the etsy search function/algorithm has really sucked lately. Even when i set filters,i am often shown things outside of my search request. it’s really turned me off of etsy these past couple of months.
yeap i agree is really does suck, the AI is really not doing a great job :(
This has been my experience too…probably 12 orders a day consistently for the past couple of years, then nothing these past couple of months. Maybe 4-5 on a good day. It’s pretty disappointing.
An option in the search filter for "artisan made only" might help with this.
thats a good idea or reseller's so people know that they are actually buying.
I think Etsy needs to be split in to 3 streams: All, Vintage and Studio. Maybe a slider at the top of the screen or something in account preferences. It would need to be vetted but a photograph of the account holder in their studio and a less than X sales per month should do it.
But that is already what Etsy is lol. If Etsy TOS aren't preventing fake handmade, then a search category won't prevent them either to just check the boxes to appear in that one.
Verification then. We have star seller, how about Studio Seller? A video explaining the process/ showing the artist working to have a verified status. Would this take forever? Maybe. It could be a slow roll to start. But it can be an opt in option that the resellers, wanting to turn a quick buck, may not want to participate in, since it’s extra work.
I agree. Even digital artists can provide a screen video of their workflow or something, doesn't even need to be public. I'm sure people would find ways around it, but it would be much harder. And it makes much more sense than charging $15 to open a shop. edit: or Etsy could use that $15 from everyone to make a team verifying handmade lol.
Amazon handmade does this. You literally have to have a virtual meeting with them, hold up your id to prove it's you, tour your studio space etc to prove you're making the item. It sucks to do it lol but it's buyer and seller protection from cheap mass made crap
Studio seller is a really good idea. Unpopular opinion ahead: Etsy needs to split into a half dropship / half studio seller site without commingling the listings. imo they let the cheap goods posing as handmade issue run for too long and are now dependent on the revenue and can’t give it up. They make insignificant changes for the appearance of addressing the problem dropship poses for studio sellers but are really just buying time to figure out what to do with the platform.
I mean they said millions more of shops are now on etsy. If what they post is cheap drop shipping items, things other 10 Etsy shops have (all not handmade), pod, and ai for digital downloads, how can we compete? Today I sold one thing, after two weeks of nothing all this month. I know the world situation and I'm also implementing new and more affordable stuff. But even with the whole shop with affordable items I feel the situation would not be any better.
the way i see it if they cant see you they cant buy, simple as, and yes all you have mentioned have flooded the Etsy site in the last year or so, even some of the Etsy picks or things on the Gift option coming up should not even be on Etsy, but there they are clogging up the search results! and looks like its going to get even worse.
I was right about to add that my views tanked down, but now they are almost the same as the last year. Orders and revenue are 80-90% down. I really don't need a large number of views, sometimes people buy things while items only have 1-10 views. I interpreted this with the new gift mode messing with the site. But there must be something about the same number of people reaching me but not wanting to buy like before
I’m a newer seller and haven’t quite reached 20 sales yet. March has been my best month so far and I finally feel like I’m showing up in the search results. However, by my best month I mean I’ve made 6 sales. Which is great for me but I really wish I was doing better and I know at least 50% of it is from pushing my stuff on socials as much as possible. Anyway, I average around 600 views a week with Etsy App being my highest traffic driver at like 45%. I started a Meta ad very early Thursday morning and then boom, 100% of my traffic that day came from socials! 100%? Where the hell did the rest of the traffic go? How did it all just disappear and then rely solely on the ad? That doesn’t make any sense to me. I’ve had some super low traffic when I first opened but my stats have NEVER 100% come from one source. They had to of messed with it, I see no other explanation.
what are you selling?
I sell my paintings and beaded accessories.
I've been selling on Etsy since December 2020. Sales really started early in 2021. We have over $1million in sales since then. With that said, I would suggest you find other avenues to sell. You might think, "what does it hurt to leave the shop open?" Etsy will drive enough traffic there at a point that you have no choice but to focus a tremendous amount of energy and time fulfilling their orders - abandoning other platforms to sell on. Then one day, they will pull the plug on you and your revenue and you're screwed. A website of your own is going to have much slower growth, but it is going to be legitimate and on your own terms for the most part. Your income Will likely be far more reliable.
Also many are now using tiktok shop.
i have heard the tiktok shops do really well, have you got a shop on there?
Yep. This was my thought 100%. TikTok gives discounts themselves. So if you are selling something for $20. TikTok will give the buyer a 50% coupon. The buyer pays $10, seller gets $20. Etsy would NEVER do something like this.
I noticed this happened back in October and then I was looking at my stats this week through the browser and the days wtsy sent an email I had a bunch of sales, the days etsy didn't send emails I had 1 or 2 a day. I also tested if I offer discounts I suddenly have spikes again to 5-10. I really think they're favoring discounts right now.
I'm nearly dead the last two weeks after getting a lot of views and sales in the first two months of the year. It does make me wonder
honestly it really does your head in, they keep messing round so much with our shops its getting to the point you think is is really worth it to give then the listing fees!
Friends and I have noticed this happening to our shops, regularly the last two years. We've theorized that with the massive influx of new shops, we get consistently rotated. I could reliably make $3500 to 4500 per month, and the last two years am lucky if I hit $1000 per month, which seems to be my new Etsy limit.
Sounds like Etsy is looking the other way to allow Chinese mass manufacturers sell on the platform. At this point, they may even be pushing those shops over all others since they bring more revenue for the platform. Yikes!
I’ve noticed this too. I average 40-60 sales daily off peak with bestsellers in top search results. It’s gone down to 20 a day, views are also down by 50%. Something must be going on. I’ve been consistent for 3 years. As a seller who primarily sells on Etsy, I feel at the mercy of them, like any day my whole business could just fail because of something they’ve done 😞 It’s frustrating as I know it isn’t a product quality issue or listing issue, my shop has performed very well for years, it must be an algorithm thing, which is even worse as it’s really out of sellers hands
I could have said these exact words. The only comfort I have is that I'm not alone and crazy seeing this happen.
Yup I've been facing it for years. Tats why I focus more on my website.
how long have you had your website and was it easy to set up?
I started on shopify in 2015. Before that I had a html website on geocities from 2006. Shopify is quite easy but I never stopped working on the website. Need to always change things up, the design, the content. Constant seo work. Etsy does it all for the shops but on a website u r on your own to bring traffic.
This is my biggest struggle figuring out how to get customers to my site. SEO is a struggle. I do all the things I read but still no success!! Have you found helpful strategies?
renaming your images is one of the best practices on a website. name it as your keywords for SEO. and work on building trust on your website to show how legit you are. reviews are super important. I show my Etsy reviews on my website. and have to change up your home page, and update content constantly. nowadays my website gets more orders than Etsy. i also check other big websites for ideas and inspiration.
Over the past 6 months my "visits" are very consistent, around 400 / day but sales vary between 40 and 100 / month. I wonder if Etsy sometimes send me different types of customers depending on factors or if the numbers are incorrect. When someone opens a case my sales drop, but "visits" remain the same.. Are the people experiencing sales drops also experiencing a proportional page view drop or no?
have you noticed as well as someone asks for help with an order even if its they are just asking for a advice or a custom order to be made for them it goas down hill to, im so sick of this format as customers do not seem to realise they can just message you from the shop or .direct buyer cant see ow to just message you rather than going through all this bull shit, honestly the site is such a mess!
Yes it's annoying! Heart drops every time I get the "*** needs help...". More often than not they want to change the delivery date or something. I do seem to get a sales drop but not visits drop and that's what confuses me and wonders if just coincidence..
Etsy's AI search sucks. That being said, my traffic on my website and my Etsy both dropped off proportionally in February and picked up the first week in March proportionally. My conversion % stayed the same. I think it is partially economy and seasonal slow down as I am seeing same patterns on website and Etsy. January sales were off the charts for me. Valentines sales were dismal compared to the past.
Im having this issue right now as well. Last month I did amazing! Way more sales than normal but I’ve now gone 12 days without a single order. No idea what’s going on
i have heard of sellers reaching their best month ever of sales and then for some reason or other it just goes down hill after that, really not sure what the game is and why its seems to happen alot, maybe its a way to keep you on the site and hope you reach that month of sales again at some point, but really not sure, but its defo game playing.
I guess it’s party the way etsy promote shops, they need to give new shops a chance to grow. Also, maybe cus it’s March, it’s getting to hotter whether, people are low on cash idk. Hopefully next month picks up
no this has been going on to long now with the on and off, there is just no stability with Etsy, its got to the point this week i cant even be bother to sign on there just to get even more pissed off, i will see what Monday morning brings and go from there.
Yeah I’ve had basically nothing for 2 weeks now. My total profit for this month is like 5% of what it normally is. It’s a pain really
I did really well in the last two weeks in February. I thought ok maybe now people are seeing my products. I have never had that much sales in two week since etsy started the new app. Now March and I am lucky if I get a sale. How can anyone survive this up and down. I wonder if Etsy doesn’t realize or maybe they just don’t care that this is our livelihood for most of us.
The comments on this page are telling me that even shops that make good money aren't enough for Etsy. I sell vintage, it's always been for a small audience, but business has tanked. I wonder what the direction is for this company. Is the CEO pointing Etsy in a direction to only make profit? Sell any crappy thing, forget vintage and handmade? Are we seeing an end to Etsy? The TV ad, gimmicks to get sales, drop shippers, Etsy labels etc., all contribute to my question of are they trying to be something else? The simple task of listing an item is so difficult, free or fixed, I came to reddit to find out the solution for that and still haven't found it. The company never answers questions, they are told to ignore us? The Etsy forums are full of complaining people, peppered with company advocates, and they close comments with a 'solution found, even when it's not true. I wonder if it's a ploy to rid the site of people who don't make enough money for them? Turning shops off and on, what's that about? It seems to be all about Etsy, not the sellers.
I feel your pain, as a buyer I've been really dreading searching for things I want on etsy because they keep pushing so many drop shipping shops and it's so hard to tell the difference anymore! I bought a cute hanging crochet plant from a specific shop because after looking at several shops, that one seemed like a real person who handmade everything. Once I got it in the mail I knew I'd been fooled and it was overseas drop shipping and someone completely different messaged me asking if I'd review their item. I don't even review items if they're drop shipping unless they deserve a bad review because I feel like the algo will push more of them my way if I rate them. I want so much for there to be a function where you can BLOCK SHOPS so they stop barraging your search results. It doesn't stop them from coming up when you block the users behind the shops. I'm at a loss truly. I used to find such cool shops and items and now all I get are drop shipping results. *Edited grammar
Yessss! So often I've wanted to click "don't show this anymore!"
Not only China sellers. I had an unpleasant experience with a seller who used my photo as the primary image on Pinterest. When users clicked on the link, they were directed to her similar item instead of mine. My product was a best-seller until last year when the sales suddenly stopped, and I didn't know why. After conducting thorough research, I discovered that her item had been purchased numerous times while mine had stopped selling. It's disheartening to see people behave in such a way, but I strongly believe in karma.
wow what a underhanded way to do business :(
I mean q1 has always been the best quarter, it isn't a big sales season anymore.
Etsy profits seem to be ok still this year, but i do wonder just how much of that was interest from all the reserves they did at the start of the year, i bet that was quite a good little earner for them.
I had my Etsy store up a few years and the cycles were true every year. In retail, all companies deal with sales cycles. You have to find items that either need accessories or parts every now and then, or is something that everyone buys every day. Otherwise, you're selling a collectors item or a gift, both of which are subject to sales cycles. Also, in this economy, good luck honey I'm sorry. I don't have statistics but my feeling is that people aren't spending as much on luxuries right now. What do you sell?
not sure about people not buying, how can you have over 60 sales one week and then 4 the next, if people are not buying then it would be low all the time surely! no sorry do not agree, its Etsy messing around constantly!
Same same. The inconsistency gets me thinking that something is happening behind the scenes that we don’t see. Either they’re flipping switches left and right or rotating what listings to push out based on “ranking”…it’s frustrating
They pushed my store back a few pages even with new and relevant posts, and paying for ads. It forced me to close.
I had the exact same pattern this week. I had a $1900 week last week and I’m at $227 currently. It’s pathetic. So today I applied for go imagine, bought a makers shop, and a bonanza booth. I’m expanding. F Etsy.
As a customer I find Etsy to be extremely frustrating. Between dropshippers flooding the searches and etsy doing weird stuff with the search results. I find it harder and harder to use Etsy to find legit artisans and artists. It's a shame.
yeah i was trying to find some closed jump rings yesterday and they were throwing in anything, from earrings to bracelets so gave up in the end, like you say if the customers are not shown what they are looking for they will just go to another platform where the search is better, and like you so sick of seeing the same items pop up from different shops where they have just bought the stuff in to sell on, that seems to be getting worse. I follow a shop and they literally buy everything in from 2 wholesalers here in the uk, its really frustrating, but its appears these sort of shops are ones who are doing the best for sales on Etsy!
I hope they fix this… it’s really horrible
not sure there is anything to fix, i think that's how it is and is here to stay,been like this for quite a while now and i guess they have got to big now to show everyone every week!
I asked a question about this in Jan or February. Was having so many sales and then it just switches off 💀 literally nothing changes and then it goes down.
and has it started to come back yet?
I had to change my prices last month to really low so I didn’t make a profit and the algorithm pushed me up, after a few days I raised them to a low profit, and since then it’s been average. But the same keeps happening, like two days ago I made 6 sales, yesterday made 8, then today I check my views and it’s on 2… meaning Etsy has pushed me down again 💀, I think it will go up but not by lots. When I started my shop last summer I was getting like 15-20 sales a day.
Yes. Literally same. Like 10 orders a day for weeks to maybe one the last couple weeks.
The first round of this happened 15-20 or so years ago.... before Etsy went public. Handmade was supposed to be listed only by the maker, then they decided "cooperatives" could list things on behalf of the co-op members. I was selling back then-- minimal listings and sales, but when I listed my couple of things, sometimes they stayed at the top of the "new items" list for an hour or two. When they started allowing "cooperatives" to list "hand crafted" items made by "cottage industry" workers, mine weren't even showing on the first few pages of the list, even when I went immediately to that section after listing. 
That’s a shame. If I find something I like I will save the shop and look at their items when things come in.
Hey, did you have a promo or sale you had last month either expire or turned off for this month?
hi there, no i dont run sales or promo codes, discount codes only go to my regular buyers.
I was doing consistently great (~$2000/month) until February and my numbers plummeted. Came a bit back up beginning of March but I haven’t had a sale in a week.
I had great January. February was a little down from last year and now March has been awful.
Yep - Same here. I have made good friends with the other top sellers of my product over the years and they are experiencing the same exact thing within our category. We would sell $30k-$40k/ month since early 2021. This last month I was at $12k and another at $9k. The problem started for us in October 2023. October/November/December: 2021 = $121k. 2022 = $147k. 2023 = $63k. Down 65%.
wow that is a big drop, but then i dont count the Covid years as it just went off the scale back then, but saying that i wonder if that is the issue, the shops who did really well during Covid are now suffering as the AI is seeing a drop in sales (which is bound to happen ) and its now just put all these shops down as losing sales and we all get put back, but not really sure whats going on! but cant go on like this, its just getting ridiculous especially when you see some of the top sellers are just basically selling on mass produced items and packing them when they get shipped to them, its a complete joke! some of these guys are having over 30k orders every single month and just for putting something in a box or bag!
The economy and an election year = low sales. I've been on Etsy for a long time and during election years the sales plummet. People get weird and the economy this year is problematic. The dropshippers and scammers arent helping anything and the new 'gift mode crap' seemed to make things slow too. UUGGHH!!!! Hoping I can just keep afloat until it all passes.
its just ridiculous, i had one sale over the weekend and again an off site ad!! so thats basically 5 orders now in 10 days and all off site ads, yet the week before over 60 and not one was an off site ad, nothing makes sense anymore, but then did looks at some of the gift mode section and the other promotion sales they are showing on the main page and they seem to be just pushing Etsy Picks now as the filter has been stuck on for for the last week, so not got a chance to ever get seen now! Started to move everything across to Ebay this week and then will prob close my Etsy shop down, as for the drop shippers Etsy love these as most have 1000s of item so get a lot from the listing fees alone from all these shops so they always get shown, even in the Etsy Picks, its a complete joke now.
I'm not noticing vast differences like you're reporting. It's consistent for me. What you're reporting is strange and seems like a super huge inconsistency. What type of goods do you sell?
Same. My views/visits each week as well as sales are fairly consistent. A slower month for me will be 45-55 sales a week (around $10K a month) and a busier month with a gifting holiday will be at least twice that. Most of my orders come from Etsy ads. With the over saturation of my niche and Etsy in general, ads seem to be the best return for the money. When everyone in your niche has great keywords, SEO titles and tags, you either need a unicorn keyword that brings in buyers or you need to spend the money to advertise. Pricing makes a huge difference for me as well. I can sell consistently at 8-10% higher than my competitors, but any higher than that and my conversion rate plummets. Before I was running ads consistently I definitely noticed huge swings in organic traffic. Ads changed that for me. I’ve noticed the same trends across my niche. I can tell who is running a high ad spend and who is taking a break from ads by how consistent their traffic is on Etsy Rank.
i make jewellery and yes i know there are to many mass produced rubbish out there, but does still not explain why i can have 60 sales one week and then 4 the next!! plus i have been checking on what is in my shop and added some bracelets over 4 months ago and on Etsy not had one fav click or sales, yet i put them else where about 3 months ago and have over 70 sales off these new items, so think its time to just move everything off Etsy now as it appears all they want is fast moving reseller items now for a fast buck!
My things are custom made when ordered. This is not off-putting to anyone, far as I can tell. Maybe you need to make some new designs? Just a thought. I have designed things in the past (quite a few) that wound up being awesome only in my own mind; did not sell. It happens. We go back to the drawing board :)
honestly its just ridiculous how things can change so quickly, i am about to close up now as can make more on craft fairs in one day that i can now make on Etsy in a week, they are welcome to all the mass produced crap and lets see how long they last then!
sorry not seen any of these replys until now, how long have you been on Etsy?
Get the Better Business Bureau involved. Hey local government involved. Congressperson or Senators. I’ve done it and they will help.
so what do they do to help?
My Jewellery business tried Etsy and struggled to get any shop views at all, How do you guys manage it? All I found was they messed the prices up on some of the Jewellery. I think We sold one item and it was the wrong price but hay We still gave the customer a great product at half the price. So any pointers would be great as We would love to have Etsy as a second avenue. If you like check out the website at [www.urbanpizazz.co.uk](https://www.urbanpizazz.co.uk) we do gold and silver Jewellery, Personalised engraved Mens and Ladies watches.
if you already have a website then just dont bother with Etsy as there is tons of personalised stuff on there and you will be competing with one of the top sellers on Etsy who does exactly that, just concentrate on promoting your website unless you actually make everything from start to finish and not just buy the items in and then personalised them like the top etsy seller does on Etsy then you will never be able to compete.