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Me either. Any time my partner and I search for anything on Etsy it becomes very quickly evident that many (if not most) of the products are coming from factori
by vector_spaces 6y ago
Me either. Any time my partner and I search for anything on Etsy it becomes very quickly evident that many (if not most) of the products are coming from factories in China. Nearly any time we've bought something, the tracking is usually strange, the shipping process takes several weeks, and sometimes reveals Chinese import/export intermediaries. Occasionally there is Chinese branding on the box or contents. Some sellers are much more careful to conceal the products origins than others.
To be fair it isn't always low quality or terrible, but it's clearly not all made by some lone artisan chiselling away in their workshop either.
Anyway Etsy appears to have a much worse problem with this than even Amazon. The cynic in me suspects that given how much revenue these factories generate for Etsy, they probably aren't too interested in cracking down on it anytime soon.