meant to “reward Etsy sellers who consistently provide an excellent customer experience,” according to the company website. The Star Seller badge signals to customers that a particular seller ...

In February, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman ... forbidden at the time. The Star Seller program, introduced last year, is also a target of ire. Sellers receive a badge if they maintain certain customer ...

Always creative, Murch (an Etsy Star Seller with the site’s Rave Reviews badge) left a corporate job and launched Colle Creative in 2020 as a one-woman shop and still personally does all of the ...

Limit search results to items with free shipping, finds on sale or picks from star sellers ... different badges, and they all mean different things. One thing that I love about Etsy is how ...

I was still given one star. Etsy is about to start a new program that rewards sellers with public badges for maintaining five star ratings, on shipping time and response time." "Every review ...

But sellers say this program, which designates “Star Sellers,” feels like a punishment instead, and is a way for Etsy to micromanage their work without a human on the other side. For Sky ...