Why So Many Etsy Listings Are Being REMOVED Every Day...

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(Summarized from the Arabic caption track.) The creator, who says she has sold on Etsy for eight years and also sells on Amazon and Shopify with a corporate e-commerce background at companies she names as Zappos and Zulily, warns that many Etsy shops use an illegal pricing practice unrelated to trademark infringement. It is illegal and deceptive, she says, to raise a price and immediately discount it so it looks like a deal when it is actually the everyday price. She gives an example of a seller with a 30% margin who wants to join an Etsy site-wide sale requiring at least 30% off: they raise the price 30% to about $71 or $72, then discount 30% to $49.99, which was their long-standing everyday price. She illustrates the same action on one of her flower walls, which she says generated $49,924 in sales with prices from $255 to $539; raising 30% would make it $332 to $701 before applying a 30% sale. Instead of inflating, she advises building a pricing strategy and premium positioning with margin to absorb real discounts, contrasting Walmart Great Value white bread at $1.48 with a 90-day free return, which she says Walmart would never discount 30%, with Whole Foods bread at $9.59 and another loaf marked from $7.99 to $5.59. She argues premium customers who value time and treatment will notice deception. A closing testimonial in the transcript states $696 earned the month before joining her coaching program and $4,149 in the first month after, from 133 orders.

Key takeaways

• Do not raise a price and immediately discount it back to the everyday price to join a sale — the creator presents this as illegal and deceptive
• Example in the transcript: a 30% margin seller raising to about $71-$72 then discounting 30% to $49.99 misleads buyers about the deal
• To join 20%-40% site-wide sales legitimately, build margin into your regular pricing strategy in advance
• Position as premium ‘Whole Foods’ rather than low-price ‘Walmart’ so you have room for genuine discounts
• Deceptive pricing harms customer experience, especially with premium buyers who value time and how a brand treats them

Episode details: published December 9, 2024 · 5:27 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dylan Jahraus’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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