Etsy is awash with illicit products and mass produced goods (2021)
I like to dream about changing to a four day workweek, and dedicating one day to woodworking. Originally, I wanted to sell on Etsy, but the flood of drop shippers pretending to sell handmade stuff has put me off. It seems like it has gotten a lot worse in the last decade.<p>I know that this one day a week would decrease my overall earnings, but it would probably still be worth it. However, with the abundance of cheap, mass-produced items on Etsy I would have to price my items so cheap that I would fall below minimum wage on that day.<p>I don&#x27;t want to complain, I get to do enough woodworking as is, since my employer gives me 12 additional vacation days in exchange for 5.2% of my salary, taking me up to 47 per year.<p>But it would still be nice if there was a platform in Europe that does what Etsy used to do.