After months of trying to regain my star seller status, my message response rate has continued to decline. I had 3 people message me multiple times. When I responded, the response was to one message (because why would I respond to 2 separate messages from the same person) even though I opened both messages, it brought down my score. I have set up an auto-reply to circumvent this technical issue, but Etsy MUST fix this!
Please comment if you agree.
They are planning to fix it but currently you need to reply to all separate first messages.
Read up in announcements about changes to star seller. I think it doesn't roll out until July maybe?
Thank you. Somehow I missed that. Glad they recognise this is a major issue.