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Ooak Browse

Why not add a ooak or one of a kind or unique items link to the browse sidebar. Within you could include sub categories of art, clothes, jewelry, pottery etc.... It would be so easy to just include items tagged or titled ooak.

The sellers listing one of a kind items are buried on this site by the multiples. I realize by just the nature of ooak items this is hard to combat. But if numbers are always going to be the criteria for being featured, ooak items can never compete, yet there are a lot of users that are still looking for unique, one of a kind items.

A little personal experience. I've known this would happen for awhile, so I unlike other types of shops realized I have to go out and seriously market and promote my work and I bring them here to buy, by doing so I bring Etsy and my fellow sellers viewers and customers. I'm happy with that. Shops that are trending or are easily found with browse and now trending likely don't have to do as much work marketing and bringing people to the site. So I contend ooak artists are a big part of Etsy success. Please don't run them off.

C'mon if IPhone Accessories get a link, throw your ooak artists a bone and give us one.

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This would be great Loopy!
I agree. There are a lot of great artists on Etsy that have a hard time being seen.
How would items be identified as truly OOAK to be included in this special Browse section?

I've seen items mass made by the "factory collectives" titled and tagged as "unique" and "OOAK".
ooak, tags ElleJay. And just because people mistagged shouldn't hurt people that are truly trying to sell ooak. We know mistagging is nothing new.

Same as how resellers and copyright infringers are showing up in trending browse currently. LOL, maybe these tools will really get the integrity team cracking cuz the obvious it going to become glaringly obvious.
good idea.
just an easy to effect good idea.

Yeah, I guess there would be tags that would violate.. but overwhelmingly... better for the Hand Made artists than not having this.


Hey!
let's do it!
Awesome idea, Loopy. I would shop from that. I know lots of buyers that would.
I would love this so much...I always have to dig deep through things that aren't one of a kind, to find them
Excellent idea !


If you create a tool to help sell trending items that omits a large portion of the listings on the site I would think a similar tool for those listings would be created. Some people with money to spend want trendy items some want unique one of a kind items. market to both.

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