Articles

• How to tell if an Etsy shop is a dropshipper Six things you can check yourself, in about a minute, before you buy.
• What handmade actually means on Etsy The rules are looser than the word is, and the gap is where the trouble lives.
• Why the same product photo appears in twenty different shops One supplier, one photo pack, twenty storefronts with different names.
• How to check where an Etsy order will ship from before you buy The shop's location and the parcel's origin are two different things.
• What to do when what arrived is not what was pictured The order it has to go in, and the words that get it resolved.
• How Etsy reviews work, and why 4.9 stars does not mean what you think What the number counts, what it leaves out, and how to read past it.