Laura h.

Etsy could have been amazing. But it is run by very young hopelessly immature kids.
I had an etsy shop for a year - I did really well! But one day they sent me an email, accusing me of not hand making my stock. My shop sold vintage textiles, and had the word vintage in the title - it was absolutely clear as day that it was in the vintage category. You would have had to have pretty severe $#*!ation not to realise that... but I had to explain that anyhow... they imediately wrote back accusing me of stocking non vintage items, and closed my shop forever. No matter that there were thirty other sellers selling the same thing - no problem with them, just me.
I begged them not to put me out of business, asked them over and over to tell me what I had done wrong - They wouldn't reply. I had a 100% positive feedback and a great clientele, with not a single complaint.

I suffered considerable hardship as a consequence. A year later, I asked if I could have my shop back, and if not - please, please tell me why?

They told me, they had reviewed it and would not reopen my shop. They would not give a reason. I just don't get it.
They are quite happy to have hundreds of sellers who openly violate their terms of understanding blatantly.
Once, their CEO made a 'Treasury' (etsy speak for an individual's choice of a themed collection of etsy picks) called 'welcoming our new overlords' it was a collection of robot themed stuff - and every one of his choices were obviously mass produced crap from China. It was as if he was flipping the bird to all the hard working crafters out there.

Please don't even think about selling on etsy - you WILL have you heart broken eventually. They do not care about people. They have no principles at all, and whats more they enjoy playing with peoples lives - what happened to me has happened to many, many unfortunate sellers. They are like cruel children, pulling the wings off flies - just avoid them.