Why does Etsy keep incorrectly flagging my items as prohibited?
Automated filters frequently misidentify legal materials like commercially purchased plants or animal-themed jewelry as violations. This results in repeated product removals and false flags that sellers cannot easily stop.
In their words
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“i recently have been flagged several times for selling endangered plants.”source ↗
“for some reason etsy keeps flagging my pendants with venus fly traps as an endangered plant. Is there any way to have this stop happening?”source ↗
Ok_Chain_4878 · r/Etsy · 26 upvotes
“We sell rings and some of our rings depict animal designs. Just animals sculpted in silver. They get flagged”source ↗
CelticJewelscapes · r/Etsy · 1 upvotes
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