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  • They must have put it back (under pressure!) then, because it wasn't there last year. I actually went looking for it specifically after I read the WaPo article about Etsy scammers just to see if they'd put the option back.

    Also, I just now looked, and you're right: in the browser view, there's now a tiny little "Report this item to Etsy" link at the very bottom of the product listing, to the lower right. It's literally the last thing on the page.

    Archive link to WaPo article: https://archive.ph/be2bk

    How to report an item to Etsy: https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000344568-How-to-Report-an-Item-or-Shop

    EDITED TO ADD correction and links

  • Etsy USED to be a seller space for individual makers. Then about ten years ago they started allowing mass-produced items, and it's been downhill ever since.

    There are still individual makers there, but they're drowned out by all the counterfeits and Chinese dropshippers of ultra cheap tat, and the corporates making coin off the current "we sell anything that sells" policy.

    You can't even report counterfeits on Etsy anymore. That's what a shithole it's turned into.

    EDITED to correct statement, Etsy has put a report option back into listings again.