Well, a consumer generally visits Amazon for cheap, not quality, goods. Etsy is supposed to be the place a consumer goes to purchase small batch, hand made, custom items.

Which, from my experience, isn't the case anymore. It's people selling cheap Chinese charms on some string.

Etsy was originally a marketplace for artisan or custom goods that would allow you to buy directly from the artists/craftsmen.

And now that they aren't, there's new opportunity for a marketplace for artisan goods perhaps. Heh.

That you would even ask that is exactly why they are failing.

Custom orders. I just had a rubber stamp created from an illustrator file via Etsy.