A Petition for Etsy to Recommit to Its Values

This is great. Maybe they could work in something about the fact that an enormous, unmissable portion of etsy's products are manufactured in china and flipped by lazy faux-hippies under the guise of being "artisan".

If their stated goal is "To reimagine commerce in ways that build a more fulfilling and lasting world.", eliminating blatant trinket arbitrage sounds like it falls squarely under that umbrella.

I'm a supporter of the original Etsy vision and company... but.. how, exactly, is this petition supposed to change the company's direction? The company IPO'd. These changes reflects the new owners, investors, and their vision is a niche Amazon competitor.

When the company has been brought to market, cut up and sold as stocks, when the CEO + CTO have left and 20% of the staff have already been laid off - the battle is over.

The software doesn't seem revolutionary or deeply technical, maybe it's time to regroup as a competitor? By no means easy - but certainly more actionable than a nebulous unanswered petition.

Paradise lost and understandably they want it back.

It's not about values but about spending more money. But if you want to spend 25% of money on lavish living, which is fine, instead of the industry level of 10%, you should have not gone public and took IPO money.

The problem is that Etsy’s fundamental value proposition is ill defined and hard to define, and therefore hard to enforce.