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Etsy Shop Closed: The Rest of the Story!

A year ago, I posted that I was closing my Etsy Shop. Well, one thing lead to another and I started getting several orders a week, and so I decided to keep it open a bit longer. A year later, I have had more than 200 sales on my Etsy shop and have followed all the rules and policies to a tee. Just the other day, about a week ago, I received notice from Etsy about a Copyright Violation. This violation had been handled more than a year ago and I had again, followed the rules and removed the copyrighted material from my stock and stopped selling it. I had been approached by the lawyers representing the company of which I had used their logo without the proper permission. I had misread the guidelines and thus, the violation occurred! Anyway, Etsy decides to step in, more than a year later and ding me with this Copyright Violation, same one that had already been handled, and removed items from my shop that they deemed fit this issue (which none of them did since I had already removed the offending material), and gave me a slap on the hand and said if I had one more copyright ding, I would lose not only my Star Seller Status (which I just got for the first time) but that they would close my shop down without notice. For almost two years, I have had my shop open, paid all of their fees, even the ones that felt were unnecessary, and again, followed the rules and policies. So, again, I am now going to close my Etsy shop down, by December 31st, 2024. I am moving everything to this domain, https://delphidecals.com, which I had setup LAST time and this time, will go through with it. I am done with Etsy and their constant changing of the rules and policies and go it on my own. I know that I am losing some marketing doing this, however, every sale has my business card, with all of my information, so they will be able to find me easy enough. I will be posting a notice on my Etsy shop within the next few days making this announcement, to prepare my followers and customers of the impending change. If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact me! Thank you!