More intriguing Etsy stuff

[valis2]

Apparently no one monitors Etsy during the weekends, and that's when buy/sell people set up shops. They list two hundred items in a matter of minutes, "shill" (sell to themselves to increase feedback) and are gone by Monday morning, when Etsy minions come back online.

Comments

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

That's just really sad and stupid of the administration there. Especially if they are aware of the problem and haven't moved to correct it.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Well, it sounds like they have a lot of issues. I mean, they will not provide stats for the sellers, which is just crazy. I know they use Google Analytics for the site--it shows up on my NoScript box. To not allow us to access it or use it ourselves is really strange. In fact, they're very coy about stats in general, and they've admitted that their "views" system is erroneous sometimes. They have clear advantages over eBay, but they still have their own flaws...