I had started on Etsy in January of 2011 and got into teacups about the late Summer or early Fall of that year.
I came to have an emphasis on vintage teacups in my Etsy shop, ShoponSherman.
In the past year or two I started seeing shops copying me. They'd copy my keywords, and titles. And they started copying my slanted pic style.
Then the beginning of this year I noticed a shop also trying to copy my pic style of close-ups, and I could see she copied my titles and keywords.
It is this shop, vintageteacupshop:
You can see it in this listing:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/291711397/indian-dancer-tea-cup-and-saucer-vintage?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=vintageteacupshop&ref=sr_gallery_1
And in her entire shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageTeacupShop?ref=listing-shop2-all-items-count#items
You can see she went to a blue background like mine. And that really bugged me.
And I told her about it.
I told her that her entire shop was copied.
That even her shop name was copied. She copied a part of her description from another shop too.
I should have let it go. I should have let her go.
But I didn't.
And it cost me my shop. It cost me all the nearly 6 years of every day work. And all the success.
It is very bizarre how she copied so much of her shop. She copied a lot of me and my pic taking style. Her name. Her description.
She has mental problems.
Hope she gets help.
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