Don’t Open Your Shop Without Watching This First! (Avoid Etsy Suspension)

My feeling is that they just ban shops randomly, even if you follow all the suggested, they do it without reason and without warning and without explanation.

They do ban shops randomly. We went through the policies with a fine tooth comb and ensured we didnt violate anything. Still suspended. No explanation. Denied appeal. And still no clue what problem even was

Launching my shop soon and your video was SO helpful! Thank you 🙏🏼

Thank you so much for this, Brandon😊❤ You’ve answered my request. Awesome!

Can you please make a full video on posting too many listings per day? I can't find any information on this at all. Can you show examples and is this something new? This is a massive subject that I think many sellers can benefit from please and thank you.

Ya I have 15 shops running at all times on different ip, device id’s and different peoples id and banks. Currently at 12% ban rate

I could listen to you talk Etsy All day haha. 2 videos down... a lot more to go!

Good Advice!

My shop was suspended after a year and a half. 570 clients and business is gone. Yeah - NOT I created a Shopify store alongside when I built my shop ahead of time. Why would I give Etsy that much control over my business?That’s stupid and if you don’t protect yourself- good luck! What’s crazy is I still had access in my account (never logged out) and got all my money left. Then I scraped all the emails for all orders and downloaded the data for all orders to email each client letting them know I moved off Etsy. Although I was annoyed by this, I was already set up outside of Etsy to stay IN CONTROL of my business - not Etsy. If you’re selling - you have a viable business - create your own website and protect your assets. I did not sell anything Disney or any other violations, but when you don’t get answers as to why they did this - I was done. Bye Etsy!

They suspended my shop straight away not giving me a chance to do anything. On top of that they still demanded payment for the initial listing they force you to create, even though it was removed within seconds.

thanks for sharing this! really appreciate it! I'm also in Canada but my product is a made-to-order item, which will be shipped from another country, in this case, which country should I put when registering the shop? thanks!

Hi Brandon, Regarding personal information, since I am 17 years old and I already have a debit card in my bank because in my country you can have an account and a card already at 16 years old, is there any rule on the etsy platform that you have to have more than 18 years to start a new shop

Hi ! thanks for the videos. I'm having a hard time understanding the niche category. Is “instagram template" a niche? or should you target "instagram template for a particular subject? thank you very much.

One of my friend bought two item from my shop using her own credit card . The etsy cancelled the transaction after few hours and banned my account but the notification shows copy infringement but no email I received from etsy about copyright infringement or suspension of shop. I reached out to etsy and after emailing them for a week it still says the shop is suspended but i have notification on my shop stating that the appeal is in process. I really don’t know what is happening

How to switch back and sell on etsy for free Because I'm not making money right now.I really can't keep up with the balance monthly fee Now my count suspended

Just got banned yesterday and i see that i was off to couple of these tips.🤦‍♂ What if i m moving countries every now and then? What's happening then with my location and ip address?? Also, what if i start a new store on different ip address and move to the old one? Does it have to match with my physical address? As you might see, i m kinda lost now contaplating if i should open a new one and how...great video tho..thanks

Hi. Currently I’m in Singapore and would like to open a shop. However, I will be living in the Philippines for 2 months starting on August. Will that still be okay? Or my account might be suspended due to different location or ip address?

I wanted to see what a customer would experience when they will by my product. So i used my second etsy account to by one of my products and i was suspended. Should I admit my mistake to them in my appeal?

When I do POD, which location should be visible below my shop name? The location/country of my POD (USA) or my own (Germany) ?

What timing, I just got my account suspended this morning 😭