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Anonymous
It may be a good place to sell homemade items but the plants and seeds sales are mostly fraudulent and mainly listed by resellers who have no background in horticulture at all and do not know and have no way of knowing what they are selling. The customer service for sellers is almost as bad as that other evil site that starts with E. They have lied to me twice about how much fees will be, they sign you up automatically for extra fees so you risk getting hit with 50% fees. Listing is difficult, awkward, time consuming and very frustrating. I do not even try to make a listing from scratch since it never works for some unknown reason. Stats are useless as they count all my visits to edit or copy my listings as "views". Customer service sucks. It is extremely difficult to impossible to contact them and they are very slow at answering or helping. I have recently wasted a huge amount of time changing my bank because they made it impossible to do it. Then they cancelled one of my very common bulbs for being "prohibited", they have no idea what a plant is, no business determining what is or not prohibited to sell and many other sellers are selling the same species. Those idiots there at Etsy it are clueless to spot blatant plant fraud and too stupid to attempt to police horticultural items. It is very misleading advertising since they consider all plants to be "homemade" when most are resellers who buy from the cheapest and worst wholesalers out there. Some are blatant fraud to a horticultural eye. As a grower and breeder nothing beats your own website, but as the internet evolves the hassles and cost and constant "upgrades" have killed my business. It gets way to expensive to keep having changes all the time, and no grower has time for that stupid social media BS. There is no time or money for advertising for a real grower. I charge 2X or more on my items on etsy since so many are paying so much for fake or mystery plants. Since it is so much time and trouble I charge much more. Etsy like the other evil site they copied is censoring plants they have no business censoring, my plants and bulbs are not illegal, and they are not qualified to even know that either. And my seed is real, but I wholesale it now to real seed companies which is more profitable, funny how none of the seed I buy on those sites like etsy and ebafia never germinates.
2 years ago
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