Etsy sellers reported problems accessing the site, with some getting a “too many requests” error. In a thread on the Etsy boards discussing the outage, one seller said issues began after 6:15 pm Eastern: “Same here been trying for hour Read more
Facebook and its web properties are down this afternoon following on the heels of yesterday’s outage of Google, Gmail, and YouTube. Etsy also experienced problems this afternoon, with one Etsy seller writing, “Hiccups, stitches and 3 armed sweaters abound. I Read more
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson wrote a letter to sellers who were impacted by the payment-processing problem the marketplace experienced last month. Those buyers and sellers who had been hoping for some form of compensation for the disruption and three weeks Read more
Etsy’s reputation is taking a bruising due to a payments processing technical disaster that is being blamed on its third-party partner Worldpay. Etsy sellers are concerned that their reputations are also being harmed as customers have experienced myriad problems that Read more
Etsy sellers continue to struggle with certain types of transactions thanks to the widely-publicized payments processing problems that began on July 1st. No refunds and no cancellations were going through, one EcommerceBytes reader explained this week. “Refunds are getting bounced Read more
Over a week after Etsy buyers began seeing their orders hung up due to a major problem with Etsy’s payment processing system, the company announced that most of the issues were cleared up. In addition, Etsy expects to see no problems with Read more
Etsy sellers are still dealing with a major payments issue that began on Friday, and nearly a week later Etsy said Worldpay was the cause of the problem. While Worldpay apologized to buyers and sellers through an Etsy message, it downplayed Read more
