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Etsy Reviews

2.2 Rating 613 Reviews
29 %
of reviewers recommend Etsy
2.2
Based on 613 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Postal Service, Courier
Average Delivery Time
Over 7 Days
On-time Delivery
Greater than 41%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 86%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Email, Live Chat, Telephone
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.3 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
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Etsy 1 star review on 18th October 2024
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Etsy 1 star review on 17th April 2024
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Etsy 1 star review on 7th March 2024
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Etsy 1 star review on 28th November 2023
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Etsy 1 star review on 11th November 2023
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Etsy 1 star review on 27th July 2023
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Etsy 1 star review on 27th July 2023
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Doesn't do enough to prevent fraud...
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Posted 4 years ago
In this time of great need for face mask I turned to Etsy. What I received was a thin piece of tshirt material that you could see thru with holes cut for your ears. REALLY?? No finished edged just ragged scissor cut material. Shame on the seller!
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Posted 4 years ago
The seeds I purchased was a total rip off. I will never purchase from Etsy again.
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Posted 4 years ago
I am getting nowhere. I ordered face masks on April 3, 2020 from SewByUSA thru the ETSY site. They promised delivery in one business day. They charged my credit card, and then a few days later the site posted my shipping label had been made on April 8, with estimated delivery of April 11 - even though nothing was shipped yet. Today is the 15th. Nothing shipped yet, and no word from SewByUSA or its parent company owner Jahlel Factor. I have emailed both Etsy and SewByUs and still waiting for my cancellation authorization. Neither of my daughters have received their orders either. I wonder how many orders have not been received by buyers but are being charged anyway. Barbara Gosse
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Posted 4 years ago
I found this site amazing for the type of products you cant find in your local stores, they have more items and a better quality , would highly recommend
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Posted 4 years ago
Charges you to put up items. Holds money from your sales for WEEKS so that your buyer ends up cancelling the orders. They will 'look into it' and you never get a response. Etsy is the WORST company to deal with. honestly.. if you want to sell stuff go somewhere else..
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Posted 4 years ago
Ordered off this site:months later never got goods I had paid for, my emails to seller ignored, everything ignored. I’m 75yrs old .money not easy to “throw away to thieves”my advice is JUST DON’T....
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Posted 4 years ago
I was contacted by Etsy saying I would receive my portrait by March 30, 2020. They gave me a tracking number missing 2 digits. I kept driving to my PO box. Usps didn't recognize the tracking. Then I got an email from Betsy saying it had been delivered by Fed Ex to my door! Well, that was impossible because I didn't give my physical address! I couldn't get through to customer service of fed ex to a live person. So I had to go to an office! The employee wanted to blow me off like usps and Betsy and gave me the run around. Finally a fed ex manager John in Arvada, Co took the time to stay on the phone. Come to find out Etsy uses a reseller to deliver. It's April 1, 2020 and I still haven't gotten my package promised by March 1! Betsy SUCKS! THEY DONT STAND BEHIND THEIR SERVICE AND FLAT OUT LIED THAT IT HAD BEEN DELIVERED TO MY DOOR! I will never never never use Esty again!
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Posted 4 years ago
Etsy is one of the worst companies in the world 1- I'm the owner of the unicorina clothing shop and they closed my shop primarily and when I contacted them in the chat they closed the chat on my face and blocked me from getting any help through Etsy chat. 2- after that I tried to contact them through legal and integrity mails and they apologized for this issue and they opened the shop again And I was very happy about this. 3- after two months when my shop starting to getting sales After a great effort and hiring 3 of graphic designers in my country for my store and a large cost to set up the store they closed my account again for no reason 4- I tried to contact them again but no one responded to all of the emails that I sent from my e-mail 5- I tried to open a support case to Etsy in the help center but no one responded until now !! 6- I didn't lose hope, so I tried to post my problem in the Etsy forum and two days later I was surprised that they blocked me from entering the Etsy forum 7- I think Etsy is the most racist site and does not concern anyone but I will publish a detailed article confirming this possibility on the official website of the store. 8- I bought more than 6 digital products for my store before closing my account and today I cannot access the products that I have purchased 9- finally I strictly adhere to Etsy's rules and I really walk beside the wall in Etsy and don’t know why my account is disabled until now And why this despicable transaction with customers and sellers 10- I will open a case against Etsy in the BBB organization, and I will not stop until I receive my right or find a satisfactory solution for me
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Posted 4 years ago
Etsy is one of the worst companies in the world 1- I'm the owner of the unicorina clothing shop and they closed my shop primarily and when I contacted them in the chat they closed the chat on my face and blocked me from getting any help through Etsy chat. 2- after that I tried to contact them through legal and integrity mails and they apologized for this issue and they opened the shop again And I was very happy about this. 3- after two months when my shop starting to getting sales After a great effort and hiring 3 of graphic designers in my country for my store and a large cost to set up the store they closed my account again for no reason 4- I tried to contact them again but no one responded to all of the emails that I sent from my e-mail 5- I tried to open a support case to Etsy in the help center but no one responded until now !! 6- I didn't lose hope, so I tried to post my problem in the Etsy forum and two days later I was surprised that they blocked me from entering the Etsy forum 7- I think Etsy is the most racist site and does not concern anyone but I will publish a detailed article confirming this possibility on the official website of the store. 8- I bought more than 6 digital products for my store before closing my account and today I cannot access the products that I have purchased 9- finally I strictly adhere to Etsy's rules and I really walk beside the wall in Etsy and don’t know why my account is disabled until now And why this despicable transaction with customers and sellers 10- I will open a case against Etsy in the BBB organization, and I will not stop until I receive my right or find a satisfactory solution for me
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Posted 4 years ago
Although I have received some really lovely things from Etsy, the amount of items I have ordered that have been ‘lost in the post’ is disproportionate. I would say that every three things I have bought from Etsy, one will not show up. I have got the money back every time from the seller, but the number of cases are so high. Compare this to Ebay where I also buy items from private sellers, I have never had an item disappear from EBay. In comparison about 8 of my Etsy orders mysteriously haven’t shown up.
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Posted 4 years ago
If you are thinking of opening a Etsy shop, DO NOT. Avoid them at all costs. I run a shop on Etsy that has done tremendously well. They have run out of ways to grow their business without taking revenue from their shopkeepers. Read that again. They do not have your best interests in mind and their business goals are in direct conflict with yours. If you play that out, you have no leverage and will lose. This results in you giving them more money, more of your time, and leaves a feeling similar to working for a boss you don't like. I have invested all of my marketing into a store elsewhere on my own domain and am now just counting down the days for when I finally shut it off if they don't do it beforehand. I have made 10x as much by NOT USING etsy. Do yourself a favor by not falling for the Etsy trap.
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Posted 4 years ago
I have been selling on Etsy for over 4 years. We had thousands of orders. The customers were quite happy, the score of our shop was about 4.7 out of 5 !!! All the reviews were very positive, except for a few reviews for which we delivered the wrong items or for which the transporters lost the parcel or have delayed the delivery (nobody is perfect, we as a small workshop and company, do also mistakes and we always pro-actively compensate or refund customers whenever such issue happened). In 4 years, we had 4 disputes with customers (out of thousands of orders). All those disputes were due to the transporter's fault (shipping delays). Of course some customers are not willing to understand that WE ARE NOT working for the transporter, and that this situation annoys us as much as them... Regardless, Etsy BANNED US from selling on their store, despite us having a very good rating with our customers, and always trying to find solutions to please them. Etsy did not allow us to make any appeal or whatsoever. I woke up a morning reading an email saying that our store was banned, that I will never be able to open a store anymore on Etsy, and that they would not reply any of my emails after that. I find this treatment really not fair, respectful nor professional for a company listed on the NYSE ! After discussing with few other Etsy sellers, I realized that I was not the same in this case, and that Etsy's treatment to its sellers was quite unfair as MANY complained about similar issues, and about the fact to not be protected by Etsy. Some of the sellers on Etsy have been scammed by Etsy customers (received the product but also got their money back for invalid reasons), and Etsy did nothing about it. This is a shame for such company, and that clearly show how those big corporation really treat people. Etsy pretend to help small artisans and artists to develop their business, while the only thing they care about is their own profit and stock prices. Shame on Etsy, I will never sell nor buy anything from them again.
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Posted 4 years ago
Etsy are dishonest! They have thousands of fake accounts that troll and save your items, they place them in baskets and favourite them, they use Etsy like it is Pinterest! These trolling accounts save thousands of items, then Etsy advise sellers to give discounts to people who favourite your items. So they try to drive your prices down. Not one real buyer in the World would put thousands of items in baskets, or save your items just to look at, they are FAKE! Also they save your photos on Pinterest, use them as advertising and inflate the price! So when potential customers click on your item listing, it looks like the price has been heavily reduced. Why the 5* reviews on here? Because Etsy are brilliant at employing people to be fake buyers and sellers. They are ruining business for small sellers, allowing the China market to dominate! They sell ten a penny tat and claim it is vintage and handmade. It is not! It is factory outlet rubbish, they have ruined many people and now are faking reviews, they have fake sellers and fake buyers. Another company I will gather evidence on and send said evidence to Watchdog! Etsy is a terrible company!
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Posted 4 years ago
NO seller protection what so ever. Buyer is able to open an item not received case before the end of the estimated delivery date. Etsy close the case and refund the buyer automatically after a few days. Nothing is in place to stop the scammers. If you don't want to get scammed, do not sell here.
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Posted 4 years ago
Avoid selling on this platform. This is the last straw for me, I am running an online boutique and I sell untreated Jade for example and have to compete with sellers lying that their jade is untreated and that is not right. I sell other small goods and boutique gifts and some customers do not aknowledge a tracking number and begin extortion and sending threats of it if I do not do as they tell me. The last instance is a customer in the USA, I sent them tracking number and they ignored me and wrote in another seperate message asking where it was more than once and then began sending me threats, they were trying to get the item free by pretending to not know what was going on, they left a 1 star review claiming the item was not at their house when tracking shows it was and a note was left and Etsy says that does not violate their policies. This has happened more than once. Etsy will leave you feeling bad as no matter how you try they will allow buyers to do this, add to that the amount of fakes, clear fakes one competes with it is not fit for use. I will now have to leave after everything I have done on Etsy I am leaving and I reccommend others do too.
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Posted 4 years ago
Very wide range to choose from. Good communication from sellers Quick delivery.
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Posted 4 years ago
Worst place to buy . They will keep on adding additional delivery charges despite you already paying for it. The customer service team is not bothered and they wont refund. Its a waste. Avoid at all costs unless if you want to get cheated.
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Posted 4 years ago
I purchased an AirPod pro case which did not fit the AirPods as there is a design fault with them. The seller told me to retract my negative review and then I would get a full refund which I did and guess what? I’ve not had the refund!!! SCAMMERS!
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Posted 4 years ago
Organic Black Raisins I just received my order about 3 bags. It is wonderful quality, nice dry and clean. It is on time delivered to my house. I am Etsy old customer. This company is I turst company and from them ordered a lot my favorites. And the qualities is the best. I will order more and recommen to friends. Because no easy find this items and quality. Its the benifits is much to human body and protects the human livers....I loves it very much !
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Posted 4 years ago
Etsy is rated 2.2 based on 613 reviews