Etsy
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Has a lot of problems, but unfortunately there aren't really any viable alternatives right now
I love the premise of Etsy, but it's a shame there's not a well-established alternative to buy and sell handmade art and crafts and stuff on. The amount they charge for listings accumulates quickly if you have multiple things to sell, which is necessary just to be able to be seen in the search engines, and their security is either lax or glitches. I recently found I could no longer log on because apparently 2FA was required although I had never set that up. There's no way to solve this other than to try and contact Etsy, which is a slow and tedious process. I've seen multiple accounts of exactly the same thing happening to other people, and not just recently - this is a thing that's been going on for a long time and no one seems to have a solution, nor has Etsy apparently done anything to stop it. Another issue are the high numbers of sellers who get away with just reselling things bought from Amazon or some other store, but at a marked up price - same photos, same description and everything. I get that it would be difficult to stop this, but maybe an image search comparison with other major retailers to identify images that are exactly the same would do it. Mostly, the sellers are great and a lot of amazing things can be found on Etsy, but the company itself has a lot of flaws and is quite disappointing for something with such a good premise.