Etsy cracks down on 3D printed products — new rules exclude many 3D printed items from listings

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Awesome. I fully approve of this. If you want to sell 3D printed stuff, sell it on an appropriate platform and for fuck’s sake, sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

  Next, let’s crack down on the hordes of losers on Etsy who just drop-ship crap from Alibaba for a 6000% markup while boldfadedly claiming it’s “hand made” in the hopes that everyone is too stupid to notice. (But people must be, because apparently that’s still working.)

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  • tischbier@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re still allowing 3D printed items if the person selling is the origin of the model. At least that’s what I gathered from the article.

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    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How do you prove you’re the creator of a model without directly handing your IP over to this company?

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    • Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s sensible.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you want to sell 3D printed stuff, sell it on an appropriate platform and for fuck’s sake, sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

    I’m so relieved that there’s an appropriate platform!

    I need some brackets to mount a gadget I ebayed as a spare. The vendor included tapped holes for mounting, but never sold the brackets. About 3 designs out there offer a solid and reliable mounting solution.

    Each one a bit that would fit in a 1990 drugstore film cylinder, only 40c to being and us$71 shipping to the V3L, it seems.

    There is no library in my area still maintaining a running 3d printer. I have no contacts nerdier than me who have a working printer.

    Where is this place that I can get my brackets? I can’t justify a $250 printer just for 4 bracket pieces!

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are oodles of commercial 3D printing services that will run off whatever you send them for a price. Craftcloud, Shapeways, Xometry, etc.

      Or printathing.com, if you’d like to get hooked up with a private(ish) person to do it for you.

      Or just ask at any of the innumerable online spaces where people talk about 3D printing (like right here) and someone can probably do it for you, too.

      My exception is not to people printing things for others for a specific purpose if asked to. It’s against stealing other people’s work and cynically trying to turn it around for a profit, without putting any effort into it and probably implicitly passing it off as if it were your own work in the process. Likewise, I don’t object to someone designing their own thing and selling their own thing on Etsy. But just to put it into perspective I imagine most people would also rank it as Not Cool to go on Etsy and start trying to sell, say, just printouts random stuff you downloaded from DeviantArt.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

    This would exclude the thousands of makers who subscribe to designers like Cinderwing3D, and have permission to print and sell her articulated dragon designs.

    It sounds like they do have the rights, and this policy is still causing problems for them.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, that part specifically is a bit braindead.

      It’s probably because they can’t be arsed to figure out who has the rights and who doesn’t, so they just loaded up the ban shotgun.

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• the16bitgamer@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone who sell their 3D Prints on Etsy. This is fantastic. We had other shops try to sell older versions of my designs and even trying to use my photos in their listing. If this stops that I am all for it.

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  • tischbier@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is a great perspective. If it could prevent hijacking and original design ownership exclusivity that would be excellent. Good luck!

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• suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  etsy is doing the right thing here. why should you be able to sell stuff you didn’t design there?

  the world already has too many plastic articulated dragons. this sort of waste tarnishes reputation of 3d printing as an art form.

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• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Etsy is not worth the risk… full of drop shippers and scammers

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  • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is definitely still good stuff there. But you need to use common sense for sure

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• nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good.

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• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hunh. Kinda sounds like a long-form “Bless y’all’s hearts”. 🤣

  people with a stockpile of 3rd party designs can still sell items on other platforms like Facebook Marketplace, eBay or TikTok.

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