Ina Steiner

Etsy Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results and Investor Call: Better Than Many Expected — CindyLouWho2 But Etsy Expects AI To Solve Everything The following is my summary and analysis of the Etsy third quarter financial results for 2025, as well as announcements and explanations made the same day. T...

Etsy's third quarter report for 2025 was better than expected, but there are still numerous concerns

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The IRS posted FAQs on the new 1099K reporting thresholds passed in legislation over the summer, and it explained what services are open during the government shutdown. (It is accepting payments, but it is not issuing refunds.)
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When eBay Legal Agreements Collide: A seller won a default judgment against eBay, but that's not the end of the story, in today's letter to the editor.
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Etsy provides a product feed to OpenAI, and for every transaction made through ChatGPT Instant Checkout, Etsy pays a commission fee.

Look for Etsy to recoup fees from sellers and possibly monetize the channel through its ad program.
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Amazon grew North American sales 11 percent in the third quarter, and third-party sellers accounted for 62 percent of worldwide paid units.
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eBay just reported its strongest quarter in years, with GMV up 10 percent and revenue up 9 percent, though buyer numbers remain flat.
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Etsy Marketplace sales were down 2.4% and active buyers were down 5% in the third quarter of 2025, year-over-year. Etsy President Kruti Patel Goyal was named CEO effective January 1, replacing Josh Silverman.
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Amazon blamed a shipping carrier's technical issues for the mysterious "other" fees it had overbilled sellers for in August and September, and Amazon refunded sellers this week.
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Amazon is rumored to be laying off as many as 30,000 employees. But it's also creating 250,000 US jobs to handle the holiday season. Of interest to sellers is whether layoffs would include employees in such roles as customer service, seller verification, trust & safety..
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eBay quietly paused a tool that let sellers create videos to share on social media after launching it to great fanfare in May.
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A small seller of vintage goods based in Canada said they had to raise prices due to higher brokerage costs, while US consumers pay more in tariffs, despite the fact low-cost vintage items don't harm US manufacturing. Today's letter to the editor.
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Amazon is recording delivery drivers' paths to consumers' front doors using smart delivery glasses. Let's just assume we're always being recorded, even by our best friends wearing their own smart glasses and wrist bands.
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If you do pricing research, did you know Google Insights in Chrome lets you track prices for individual products across the web and on individual retail sites?
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eBay made an unannounced change to how ads appear in search in early October. Sellers who noticed generally viewed it as a positive change once an eBay moderator confirmed it was intentional.
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Amazon has a new Help Me Decide feature powered by AI that leverages all the data from shoppers it collects and stores to make a single recommendation when they're shopping for a product.
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eBay's Director of Shipping talked tarrifs, and also urged sellers to use eBay Labels during peak-season at Thursday's Check-in. Sellers had plenty to say on the topic of shipping during his presentation.
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eBay briefed sellers on a range of topics, from new features to its holiday campaign on Thursday, including news that Ron Jaiven will take over from Dawn Block as General Manager of eBay North America. (Includes a link to the full video of yesterday's Seller Check-in.)
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When Amazon refunded a buyer for a suspected stolen item, it incorrectly gave the reason for the refund as "damaged during transit," when in fact it had not been damaged at all. Today's letter to the editor.
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Experts are reacting to Amazon's new Seller Challenge feature that provides sellers with 3 'lifelines' for disputing enforcement actions. Amazon has been quietly rolling out the new feature this month.
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US-Specific Pricing: EN-GB | Cindy Baldassi 🚨 Etsy has finally begun rolling out a tool so that non-US sellers can add tariffs and other fees such as brokerage to their US item prices. (Thanks to Edgars from Etsy shop kristaelsta https://lnkd.i...

Etsy has begun rolling out the tool to set US-specific prices to accommodate US tariffs.

As expected, they added this functionality to the existing domestic and global pricing tool, which has not worked properly for over 2 1/2 years.

Let me know if you have it and how it works!

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Walmart customers will be able to shop through ChatGPT's Instant Checkout, following in eBay and Etsy's footsteps.
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A seller accidentally marked 'payment received' on an unpaid buyer offer. The seller says they can't get eBay to credit the fees they charged for the non-transaction. Today's letter to the editor.
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eBay to Share Key Announcements on October 23rd eBay is holding its quarterly Seller Check-in event this week where eBay executives will share key announcements. The 2- ...

eBay is holding its quarterly Seller Check-in this week where it will share key announcements. Any predictions on forthcoming changes? And what questions would you ask eBay execs?
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Etsy's Kruti Patel Goyal will field questions from sellers in an Ask Me Anything on November 4th. What questions would you ask Etsy's President?
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An outage at Amazon's AWS cloud services unit brought much of the Internet to a standstill overnight, earning a special alert on DownDetector.
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USPS will hold requests for unused label refunds for 14 days. It's not clear if sellers who use marketplace shipping programs will be impacted.
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Tariff turmoil continues. Shipping carriers who can't obtain info to clear packages through customs are required to dispose of them, and some consumers and small businesses say they're devastated.
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Amazon is creating 250,000 jobs this holiday season even as rumors surface that it will layoff employees in its corporate offices.
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Amazon will increase FBA fees in January while enacting a change that may see slower delivery promises for products that are in low supply with low sales velocity. The devil is in the detail, let us know how the 2026 fee changes impact you.
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Nike files a #ScheduleA case. It gets assigned to Judge Daniel. Nike amends down to one. Daniel gives them the benefit of the doubt: "Presumably anticipating joinder issues, the plaintiff amended its complaint to name a subset of the initial ninety-nine defendants." This supports my fig-leaf theory.