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Great idea!

2008-04-21T11:37:51-05:00

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Great idea! I know it is extremely frustrating to see the same item over and over and over and over again. I am all for the occassional renew, but jeepers.

I like the id

2008-04-21T12:03:54-05:00

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I like the idea a lot...I cater to renew a lot when I get busy and thought it is weird that as I renew the expiry dates went beyond my control..lol..Four months from the day of renewal is perfect for me :)

Wow, I had no

2008-04-21T14:31:40-05:00

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Wow, I had no idea. I thought it was already set so that if you renew the new end date would be four months from renewal. Maybe that's because I usually don't bother to renew listings until they're close to expiration, so I would never have noticed. Thanks for the update!

That's a grea

2008-04-21T14:54:45-05:00

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That's a great change! I was wondering how some of my listings had such far off expiration dates!

Thank you! Ma

2008-04-21T17:20:37-05:00

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Thank you! Maybe my items will actually get seen, now, instead of getting lost in the mass-relist. :)

Personally, I

2008-04-21T17:49:38-05:00

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Personally, I am neither happy nor unhappy about this change. But, any chance a notification will be sent out to all Etsy sellers? So few visit the fora and/or read the Storque - and this does constitute a material change in terms for any sellers who signed up prior to today. Everyone needs to know.

"There are ot

2008-04-21T20:02:55-05:00

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"There are other ways to promote yourself on the site such as buying a Showcase spot, which many sellers find successful." Really? Who finds them successful?

this change i

2008-04-21T22:19:22-05:00

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this change is ok with me, but I think it should be coupled with the ability to change the order of items in one's store. merchandising a store chronologically, rather than visually, may make sense to you, but it bugs me.

This is a gre

2008-04-21T23:36:58-05:00

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This is a great change. I think it would also be cool if you could have some sort of policy where if someone didn't log into Etsy for x days (or months) their store would go into 'inactive' mode and you wouldn't be able to buy things. There are a lot of items here, and I wonder how many of these shops have been abandoned?

Renewing has

2008-04-22T11:52:14-05:00

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Renewing has been the only successful way to promote oneself on Etsy -- there's no indication that Showcases are worth the money. And aren't you still going to have the problem of items expiring in 2100? This does nothing to address that problem.

I think the c

2008-04-22T13:31:43-05:00

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I think the change is fine--I always thought it odd with the old system (odd, but generous!) I don't think it will change the amount people renew much...but it will solve the problem of more and more items expiring in a rediculous number of years. Doesn't etsy already automatically close inactive shops after a certain period, though? PS: I would LOVE to have the ability to rearrange my shop items without renewing.

So is this a

2008-04-22T17:41:42-05:00

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So is this a way to cut back on people renewing to move their items to the front of search listings? I do that, because if I listed a new item every day, and things sold from my shop at the same rate, I would soon have a billion items listed. And I make jewelry, which has a milliondy-billion items, so it makes sense for me to do this. I don't like the idea that I will not be getting the 4 months when I renew added on to the rest.....

On the one ha

2008-04-23T12:55:04-05:00

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On the one hand, I can see why Etsy would want to make this change, especially considering the issues around mass-renewals and prolonged expiration dates. But, at the same time, I do feel a bit ripped off and don't intend to renew any more of my items before they are set to expire. I only did it for the odd item anyway, and only to help my shop get exposure. But now, it simply isn't worth the cost.

It makes sens

2008-04-24T03:10:06-05:00

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It makes sense to me to do it this way. If i did'nt sell an item and it had been here for 8 years then i would sincerely have to admit to myself that i was doing something wrong! 4 months from the date of renewal is fine by me. Now, about the question of being able to reorganise the order of your shop items......... :)

In theory, th

2008-08-23T21:13:43-05:00

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In theory, this is fine... but months later, when I renew old listings, more time is added to their already ling life. Instead of expiring 4 months from the date of renewal, they are extending even longer. Now I have listings, recently renewed, expiring in 2010. I was hoping that, by renewing, they would expire sooner.