Public Evidence Lab / Dossier O-2190
Collected sample: 12 independent content items across 2 source families. Known publication dates: 2026-08-08 — 2026-10-27.
First seen 2026-08-08 · Last updated 2026-11-06 · 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: New item is killing my shop
However, I’ve released the toy twice, and both tim…
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Post title: Looking for shop critiques.
This last month has been my worst month so far. Ov…
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Post title: Is Etsy structured to eat your funds before you can cash anything out?
It feels like they fed me solid leads for a bit, a…
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Post title: My experiment with using a US fulfilment company as an Aussie seller
This year has been really crap for my Etsy sales l…
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Post title: What would you have done?
bear in mind, Etsy has tanked my sales from over $…
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Post title: Drastic drop in views and visits after changing pricing
I changed all my prices and updated some of my sto…
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Post title: Sudden Plummet in search
I had an item that was gaining insane traction and…
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Post title: Etsy Ads drop to almost 0
At the beginning of the period Etsy was giving the…
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Post title: Etsy listing buried in search after deactivating/reactivating
I deactivated the listing a week ago so I wouldn't…
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Post title: Does "working on your shop" still work?
For me, up until maybe Autumn of 2025 there was a …
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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.