Public Evidence Lab / Dossier O-2606
Collected sample: 12 independent content items across 1 source families. Known publication dates: 2026-08-10 — 2026-09-30.
First seen 2026-08-10 · Last updated 2026-11-10 · Recalculated daily
These observations describe collected samples, not platform-wide prevalence; they cannot establish whether a problem is widespread or accelerating. Collection scope changed on 09-16 and 09-27; monthly counts must not be read as trends.
Post title: Just saying-offsite ads
Just been charged off site ads on a unique CUSTOM …
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Post title: Is there a setting to disable off site ads?
I’m losing money on this order now because of this…
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Post title: Etsy charged me a 15% Offsite Ads fee on a repeat customer’s direct order but refuses to provide the alleged click evidence
Etsy charged me a 15% Offsite Ads fee on a repeat …
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Post title: New Etsy off-site ads opt in
Has any one else been able to find out what these …
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Post title: Why am i getting charged Offsite ad fees when customer didnt purchase through one ?
Customer bought through my affiliate link which wo…
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Post title: Canadian Etsy Sellers Using Chit Chats — Is $43 CAD Normal to Ship a 3 lb Package to Florida?
I paid about $43 CAD total, including tariffs/duti…
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Post title: So tired of these offsite ad fees
My shop made over ten thousand dollars, so there's…
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Post title: Should I start selling on Etsy or my own site?
But then I hear about the fees stacking up, the of…
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Post title: Etsy off site advertising fees
on our $19.99 item we’ll see a $3.24 offsite ad fe…
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Post title: Offsite ads pain
Helped a customer with a custom order today, then …
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Post title: Opting out of offsite ads
I recently opted out of offsite ads as the fees fr…
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Post title: Worked out what Etsy actually takes per sale. On a $30 item it's 11% normally and 26% if the buyer came through an Offsite Ad.
Under $10,000 in trailing-year sales you pay 15% o…
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What this evidence does not show yet
To reach Payment-backed we still need:
No first-hand payment statement is on record here, so this page carries no pricing suggestion. A price with no payment evidence behind it is a guess wearing a number.
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Scoring summary
Evidence confidence = strength × evidence volume × source diversity × payment × competition × trend × 10. Counts use independent content items; only first-hand pain, current spend, explicit willingness to pay and concrete feature requests affect the score. Repeated posts by one author are discounted. Scoring and status changes follow deterministic rules.
“Payment-backed” means first-hand payment evidence exists in the record. It does not mean the business is worth building. “Fading” is a recency tag shown alongside any evidence level, not a lower level. Read the full methodology.