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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by ryandrake on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:23PM (#14252024)
There seems to be some natural law of Internet shopping that ensures that every "Specialized marketplace for X," will, once it becomes popular, inevitably devolve into a flood of thousands of sellers all reselling identical cheap junk from AliExpress for $0.99 + free shipping--to the point where it's impossible to find anything genuine or non-counterfeit.
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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:51PM (#14252163)
Perhaps "Where it's easy to sell goods, it's easy to sell counterfeit goods"?
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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by swalsh on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:46PM (#14252137)
On the plus side, it should be exceptionally easy to identify since they probably don't have custom photos.
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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by greglindahl on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @09:20PM (#14252286)
That works on day 1 of the crackdown, but not on day 15.
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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by lightedman on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @11:09AM (#14256299)
A magic number analysis of the images used in accounts would handle pretty much every duplicate found (which would highly hint at mass-reselling) unless the people got smart enough to figure it out and start jacking with the color palette.
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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:01AM (#14253394)
Gresham's Law?
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