Etsy's Growing Pains

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Etsy's Growing Pains

10-21-2008, 09:02 AM,

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Etsy's Growing Pains

Quote:Etsy, the website which provides an online marketplace for artists and crafters to sell their handmade goods, has proved hugely popular since launching three years ago. It now boasts more than 1.3 million members and has even been touted as a potential successor to eBay.

But in an interview with the Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast, chief executive Maria Thomas said the company needs to focus on a number of challenges before it can reach its potential.

Among the problems she highlighted was fraud, which has been a growing concern for the site's buyers and sellers. In recent weeks there have been a number of accusations that unscrupulous vendors are passing off other people's handmade work as their own an allegation that the site's community of artisans and crafters take very seriously...

full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/200...fts-online

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