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Well, the problem is that the HN crowd is smart enough to build that part itself and ruin any chances for me in the market. ;-) It's an accessory for the carav

Well, the problem is that the HN crowd is smart enough to build that part itself and ruin any chances for me in the market. ;-) It's an accessory for the caravaning/vanlife scene. Nothing obscene, nothing legally critical.

mousetree 3y ago
I’m not so sure that anybody is going to go out their way to compete with you on this
lolinder 3y ago
You really need to spell it out anyway. If you get back on Etsy it won't be long before you have copycats to compete with regardless of what you say here, and avoiding being specific doesn't help anyone here help you. Aside from what your parent said (which is 100% accurate), we can't give you any suggestions on what might've flagged the algorithm if we don't know the contents of your listings.
- martin_a 3y ago
  Done, see above/OP.
throwaway675309 3y ago
Ehhh. It doesn't sound like you were selling massive orders of them, so this sounds like an excuse to me. If it was genuinely that simple to re-create and easy to sell, you'd have a million counterfeiters who would have stumbled upon your publicly accessible Etsy site and copied it en masse.
kbenson 3y ago
You're looking at this wrong. This is free advertising here if you get your etsy site back, and if you don't it doesn't really matter, eh? If you have so little faith that paying you for the item is time better spent than creating it theirselves or putting up a store to do it theirselves, then you don't really have anything worth protecting. If it is worth just paying you a few euros/dollars, then all you're doing it foregoing a bunch of free advertising while also keeping anyone from actually helping much. My spouse uses Etsy as the primary way to sell goods. It's a crappy company with crappy policies for sellers, so I'm with you on that, but all you've done here is take much of the initial interest in your story and immediately route it to a dead end.

mousetree 3y ago

I’m not so sure that anybody is going to go out their way to compete with you on this

lolinder 3y ago

You really need to spell it out anyway. If you get back on Etsy it won't be long before you have copycats to compete with regardless of what you say here, and avoiding being specific doesn't help anyone here help you. Aside from what your parent said (which is 100% accurate), we can't give you any suggestions on what might've flagged the algorithm if we don't know the contents of your listings.

martin_a 3y ago
Done, see above/OP.

throwaway675309 3y ago

Ehhh. It doesn't sound like you were selling massive orders of them, so this sounds like an excuse to me. If it was genuinely that simple to re-create and easy to sell, you'd have a million counterfeiters who would have stumbled upon your publicly accessible Etsy site and copied it en masse.

kbenson 3y ago

You're looking at this wrong. This is free advertising here if you get your etsy site back, and if you don't it doesn't really matter, eh? If you have so little faith that paying you for the item is time better spent than creating it theirselves or putting up a store to do it theirselves, then you don't really have anything worth protecting. If it is worth just paying you a few euros/dollars, then all you're doing it foregoing a bunch of free advertising while also keeping anyone from actually helping much. My spouse uses Etsy as the primary way to sell goods. It's a crappy company with crappy policies for sellers, so I'm with you on that, but all you've done here is take much of the initial interest in your story and immediately route it to a dead end.