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Probably too late as going back would likely reduce revenues. Handcrafted goods are expensive and slow and hard to police the sellers.

Its a shame, because it was such a good idea to have a marketplace for people to sell stuff without the pain of setting up an online website/shop. Though some independents are now are using the squarespace/shoppify....etc.



I think that in Europe DaWanda is what Etsy could have been.




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