Etsy: Screwing Etsy shops one seller at a time

WallCandy, a Canadian artist and cancer survivor, has been on Etsy since 2007. Soon however WallCandy might no longer exist as WallCandy on Etsy.

A new Esty seller, Wall Candy Arts, has apparently complained to Etsy. Wall Candy Arts filed a trademark in 2002, in the US, for something very specific: "decorative plastic wall coverings and wall boarders that adhere to a painted wall surface and are easily removed and repositioned."

Etsy has given the original, Canadian WallCandy one week (ONE week) to notify customers and choose a new name. Rather than do something logical like, oh say taking 5 minutes on Google to learn that Wall Candy Art and WallCandy sell non-competing products and are based in two different countries, Etsy chooses to be boneheaded fucktards as usual.



Etsy - this is bullshit. You're an International site, right?? As you say "the Etsy community represents more than 150 countries worldwide" so ACT like it. Just because a company holds a copyright in the US, does not mean that they have a lock on a seller's shop name based out of another country.

Etsy, the Never Ending Elementary School Science Project

Oh sean11, we just don’t know how you come up with these cute little Front Page tweaks!

PERSONALIZING the Front Page Experience!

oooooohhhhhhaaaaaaaaaahhhh, what????? For what? For who? Uh, we don’t get it?!?

sean11, oh hello wake up sean11, you address your Announcement to Sellers but do you know how many Sellers LOOK at the Front Page? 5%? 3%?

sean11, here’s a tip for you. Sellers are busy:
making things
making things the Etsy way
taking lots of really really good stylized clever pix
loading them with DXO-embellished novella-descrips and
spending 18 hours a day marketing themselves off Etsy!!!

They don’t look at the Front Page! They don’t have time!

We think the only reason behind this cute little useless trick is that Etsy wants to look like it’s hip to the “nothing is private while you shop online” bandwagon that shoppers spend more time opting out of then opting in. And then they stop visiting the ecommerce site altogether because it’s too much hassle to opt out.

In fact, I thought about it for 5 seconds and figured out that ALL of the weird, useless, bizarre and non-seller “tools” added to Etsy in the last 2 months have NOTHING MUCH TO DO WITH SELLERS AT ALL.

Are your SHOPPERS as confused and fed up as your SELLERS are yet?