How this works

We read reviews on Etsy. When a buyer posts a photo of what arrived, we save it, and we save the listing photo it was meant to look like. A person compares the two and says whether they match. Nothing goes up without that.

We publish the count both ways. "38 of 40 photos match" is a record and so is "4 of 31". A shop selling what it says it sells has nothing to lose here and something to point at.

What we leave alone

We do not reprint reviews. Whoever wrote it owns it. We take the facts out and leave the words where they are, apart from a few words when the exact wording carries something a summary would lose.

We do not hand you a verdict. We show you two photographs and where each one came from, and you decide what you are looking at.

We do not care where a thing is made. A factory that says it is a factory is fine by us and always will be. The problem is a shop that says one thing and does another, and the gap between the two is the only part we write down.

Removals are free

There is no fee to get a record taken down and there is never going to be one. If a record is wrong we take it down for nothing. If it is right, money will not move it. Every page has a dispute link, it stays open, and a person reads what comes in.

Who runs this

Adam Howell runs Sposedly. He also runs The Achieve Mint, which sells sobriety coins and recognition products on Etsy, so one of the categories this archive covers is his own. The Achieve Mint gets read on the same terms as every other shop and does not get to see the result first.

Better to say that here than let someone find it later.