Hello, I hope someone here can help me. I design, (3d) print, and sell different accessories for retro gaming systems. Everything in my store I designed from scratch in a 3d modeling program. I then print the products in my basement and ship them out. As far as I can tell by Etsys policy this qualifies as "handemade". However, over the past 2 hours 2 of my products have been deactivated for not being handmade. I contacted Etsy but all I got back was a copy and paste FAQ sheet which says there is no appeal process for deactivated products.
Has anyone else had this experience? Am I misreading Etsys policy's? I need to figure out how to stop the rest of my store from being shutdown. Thank you for any input.
Possibly the listings were cited as being 'not handmade' because the bots read the title/tags and the conclusion was made you were selling real Nintendo accessories, which are probably not handmade LOL
It does take Etsy time to do these things and there's soooooo many shops that have been running for years without being shut down, but sooner or later they will be. I wish they'd step it up quite frankly, it's confusing to new people about what is/isn't allowed here especially when it isn't made clear at the set-up stage. (to the point where it almost looks like they don't want you to know)