Norma L.

Is like running a store in the Third Reich or Soviet Russia. The whole site is toxic with snitches and spies who will report competitors to bring them down.

We recently found out that one of the things on Etsy that can affect your search ranking (ie how you get seen in search) is something called a "citizen score". Now one can understand if this so called score is based purely on business criteria, such as the service you provide to consumers (as expressed in reviews) how you handle problems, how quickly you ship orders and so one.

However it is also based on how the mods on the forum rate you and whether they consider you a good contributor or a trouble maker. Now lets be clear that the so-called forum mod is an entry level position and so these high school hipsters are judging people who are skilled artisans. Or in my case, a person who has the highest degree qualification one can gain in my country. And in my country you cant do a degree with multiple choice questions. Nor do we have degrees in baton twirling! So these quasi educated kids are passing judgement on how good a "citizen" you are based on what you say in the forums.

Now you will begin to see the sense of the references to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia - both of them snitches and informers paradise.

This company does not get good reviews from some customers but i have been using them for many years and have had many packages delivered to me. On the whole the goods were well packed and the package shipped out quickly via Fedex. I suspect some of the poor reviews were written by rival companies or customers who did not read the rules carefully enough before signing up. I have always found Shipito agents polite and helpful to deal with when I had a problem, such as a package not booked into the watehouse. In all cases the package was quickly found and it was the fault of the sender in failing to put my suite number onto the address.