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Etsy sex toy ban – 50% off inventory toys on Etsy until 29 July

Hey friends, lately Etsy has had a news update about the ban of all sexual items:

From 29 July, Etsy will ban the sale of sex toys, such as dildos and vibrators as well as “printed or visual materials” that exist for “the purpose of sexual arousal or stimulation”, including old Playboy issues and vintage adult magazines, and anything printed with sexual slogans related to “daddy” or “mommy”.

Which, is devastating to a lot of shops, including mine, and not only the sellers of fantasy toys but also sellers of other various adult items, which I imagine will be a lot of people. Since the “Etsy purge” of last year, which sellers had to adhere to new rules (no certain keywords anymore to describe, have as a tag, or in the title and pictures should be labeled mature and you can’t see based on the picture (blurred image or blacked out pictures) that it’s a sextoy), a lot of adult themed shops have had a drastically drop in sales.

I’ve noticed this aswell, sales dropped by more than 50% for me. Since Etsy is a very good international platform to sell upon, which reached a lot of people, this news has been devastating because it’s hard to only have a website to sell stuff on, with a lot of competitors selling AliExpress/Alibaba sextoys as fantasy dildos, which take up a lot of space on google, shadowing handmade fantasy toy makers. I’ve joined some other adult product selling websites like Etsy in the past, but they have all quitted and shut down due to a lack of time and that creditcard companies declined their payment options to these websites. (This probably has something to do with Etsy’s decision aswell.) Seeing as the situation is, hopefully there will be a new kind of website like Etsy that is focussing on the sale of sextoys or allows it along other items.

I also don’t really understand why they don’t have some kind of premium feature for 18+ items only, or some kind of switch that allows or blocks the viewing of adult items. A missed chance, in my opinion, because now Etsy also loses a portion of their revenue. Not to mention they thought “let’s get sellers up to date only a MONTH before your listings get removed!”.

So what will the future bring? It will definately be harder now, I’ve had some sales on the website but not as much as on Etsy. I’ve also cancelled the 3d printer order because there were a lot of reviews from testers that the printer didn’t live up to the expectations (lower print volume than advertised, for example), I’ve had a pre-order for this printer starting from this february but it was being delayed until the end of this month, and I was done of waiting for it aswell. I have another one on my eye now, of which the delivery will be a few days so I guess I’ll try that out. There will be a lot of testing and troubleshooting though before the real printing occurs. I guess we will see what the future will bring.

Until the 29th, there will be a 50% sale on the inventory toys/coloring pages on my Etsy shop: https://bigbadboner.etsy.com

Well, until next time, with hopefully some better news!

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