This is so true and it needs to be read here. Never put all your eggs in one basket!

@@DrivenByJason do u have any videos on what u recommend as a strategy? Thank you, honest review ive heard a lot of bans on etsy. They should really value communication with humans to weed out bots and fakes, maybe one day they'll learn the lesson as you said. Im wanting to build something more independent/secure longterm

@@Llkolii I do not have any video to address strategy yet, but can give you recommendations. Essentially you want to diversify. You want your own platform as well as using an established platform. You want to build your brand. So for your own platform, it is creating your own website store through shopify or other similar. At the same time you can sell on Amazon, ebay, etc. It depends on the product you are trying to sell. If you are selling on another platform such as Amazon etc dont worry about running ads to direct traffic there. Run Ads to direct them to your own website. Create a following on various social media platform like Pinterst, Instagram, KZfaq, etc directing them to your own website. Hope this helps!

I am going to do a video on this. Thanks for the idea!

And don't forget... KZfaq!

Your channel is pretty funny man. This video is not about fake gurus on Etsy, and my channel is not to expose scams. It is a channel to document my journey to starting a company from scratch and pass on some of my knowledge from starting businesses and being part of startups. It is to inspire people to chase their dream of always wanting to start a business. I mentioned that in my video about being banned. It is not about getting banned, it is the process of it. You are right you can get banned on KZfaq. You always need to diversify in business.

@@DrivenByJason Thanks, found you on r/NewTubers best of luck with your growth!

I agree. This is nothing video. Just because people think Etsy is a get rich quick business and find out it actually takes work, doesn't mean its a trap or a scam. I actually agree with most of the blocks they put on people. It weeds out those people.

Your channel is realy good.

If you can make three sales you can make 10. If you can make 10 you can make 100. Keep pushing 😁. I am rooting for you!

@@DrivenByJason Thank you, Jason.

That is crazy. Well I’m glad you fought them and got it resolved. How did you ever get to talk to a real person at Etsy? Congratulations on having such a successful store.

Good idea. Always good to have a backup. One of my future video will be about diversifying your business and one of the advice is exactly what you are doing.

They are not all fakes but a lot of them are just posting videos to get views. It’s a shame.

Agreed. So tired of these guys lying to us.

Making money always requires work 😁.

Thank you. It is an important messages to new entrepreneurs. Time is valuable.

That’s how I feel. It’s like you are walking on eggshells.

I don't understand this comment. Why would you be banned if you have a legitimate shop that follows the policies..?

@@bremcdonald because it is a not a person that is reviewing your store or listing it is an algorithm. That is the problem. Etsy outsource the job to a program. I do not blame them for it as they have over 7 million sellers according to their 2023 earning report. But there has to be an easier way for sellers to reach a person. Even on amazon you can chat with a person online within a minute or two and they have way more customers.

@@DrivenByJason They would need to hire thousands of people to manually review stores and individual listings, meaning drastically higher costs for legitimate sellers. You cannot compare them to a platform like Amazon. When you have a legitimate store, its actually quite easy to get reinstated. Either your store was flagged for legitimate reasons and you are not suppose to be on the platform or you're lazy and spent more time on this KZfaq than it would've taken to resolve the issue. The original comment implies that an Etsy ban is inevitable, which is simply not true.

@@bremcdonaldwhat’s your point with this comment? Do you work for Etsy? Because there is no other reason you are so vested in defending a company when you have real people here telling you what they actually experienced. Not only that.. many people in different forums are saying the same thing? So you think they are lazy too? Would they be lazy when they are the ones investing time on their business in the first place? When they are frustrated to the point that that are speaking out about this and going out their way to make sense of what is going on? You make no sense. You MUST be working for Etsy or something… and if you are.. go fix the issue instead of blame shifting

It is not easy. If I can do it anyone can. Not said I made millions but I made some side cash. You really need to be good at marketing. Which is hard to be good at. That’s the key to online sales. Marketing and then solve a problem for the customer. I’m am still learning about marketing.

@@DrivenByJason I always try to tell myself. "if someone else can so can I" Yes its basically all down to marketing which can sometimes feel like squeezing blood out of a rock. You squeeze so hard you realise the only blood found is from your own hand.

@@polysteamgaminggood analogy. It is not easy.

Nice to know that. Thank you. I'll resubmit a few times to see what happens and let people know. Still crappy as it feels like I am constantly pressing 0 on an automatic phone call trying to get to an operator lol.

Sorry, but that's not true. If you get banned your information is saved. As soon as they notice you have opened a new store you'll be banned again. The only way is to assume a brand new identity. Good luck!

There was a KZfaqr who I think found a contact at Etsy and she collected names of legitimate sellers who got banned to send to the person but I think she already submitted the list. I always heard reply to the email they sent you, don’t start a new case. I hate that Etsy says they can take up to 72 hours to reply to you, but they only give you 24 hours to reply to someone. And last time they didn’t get back to me for like two weeks.

Yeah not worth the frustration it seems.

Yeah I feel you.

I think comments from other Etsy seller on this video have mentioned it is probably something in my listing that flagged the system or they are thinking I am a bot. In the end of the video I found that my credit card rejected the linkup. Etsy probably thought I was a bot at that point. You should watch the video again. The item I was selling you can see from my video was a google spreadsheet template for a purchase order. I can probably get it fix if I can get in front of a person, but I do not think it is worth my time. I would be honest if I knew the reason lol. I do not think I got banned for making an excel spreadsheet on google sheets for people to use. However, this is the exact point of my video, the process is broken and they do not seem to care. That is worrisome as others established store have been banned too. Some have even commented on this video saying such. You are right it is their playground and they can do what they want. I choose to take my ball and go home and not play on their playground.