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When I used it over 10 years ago it already had a bit of an issue with low-effort crap. "Browse latest items in this category to see random stuff" was difficult
by arp242 3y ago
When I used it over 10 years ago it already had a bit of an issue with low-effort crap. "Browse latest items in this category to see random stuff" was difficult because half or more of the items were the same 3 things over and over.
The solution is kind of obvious: keep it small scale, know your sellers instead of a free-for-all, stuff like that. But Etsy is a publicly traded company netting $2.6 billion/year (and somehow still making a $659 million/year loss in profit, wut?) so that's obviously not going to happen.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago> The solution is kind of obvious: keep it small scale, know your sellers instead of a free-for-all How would you pull that off without keeping out a large number of small, legitimate sellers?
- arp242 3y agoThat's a good question and I don't have a clear-cut answer to that because I don't work for Etsy so it's hard for me to judge. But in general I think it's okay to accept not everyone from the entire world is on your platform and some curation isn't necessarily a bad thing. What would you rather have? 7.5 million sellers with a large number of them peddling crap or 50,000 high-quality sellers? That's already more than you could possibly browse or what's available in all of London, NYC, etc.