I honestly don't know what is happening with Etsy, this year Etsy deactivated 3 of our listings for violating their Creativity Standards. We have been selling on Etsy for years and follow all of Etsy's rules.
We sell our products on other platforms and also sell wholesale to other shops (allowing them to rebrand them, if they want to).
I know other people are using our images on their websites (whether authorised or unauthorised), and sometimes there is really not much you can do about it. We have had Chinese sellers on Temu and Shein using our images (a customer told us by doing a reverse image search), at least on those platforms you can report IP violations and they take actions (surprisingly within 48 hours). But when small websites do that, there is no way to report them, unless you are willing to hire an IP solicitor.
If you get a such a violation reported on Amazon or other platforms, at least there is an appeal process where you can present your case and get reinstated, but Etsy doesn't offer such a process.
I understand they use AI to detect violations, but they need to have some humans who will look at appeal cases.
I really don't know if Etsy will be the right fit for us long term.
