Etsy Opens to Manufacturing

Like 3 years ago, Etsy was this hip new thing that my young friends and I would visit for very authentic trinkets. Neat hand-made necklaces, little trinkets in designs no one had thought of.

Last year, I was hunting for pocketwatches, and everything I saw on Etsy seemed to be mass produced in China, literally the same as the stuff I found on Amazon and Alibaba.

This article seems to suggest that they've fully accepted this model for more revenue. The problem is, they abandoned their niche, and there's no way they can compete with the likes of Amazon without it. They've lost sight of the most important thing -- their users.

I guess it's back to eBay for me.

uniquely crafted and hand made (in China, by the gross)