Why is shopping on Etsy so fabulous, and shopping on Ebay so stodgy? Because landing on the Etsy home page is like walking into a luxuriously decorated designers apartment with surprises and turkish delights waiting for you, and landing at the Ebay home page is like being put on bread and water rations while you wait for transportation to nowhere.
Anyone who shops at Etsy knows it is like walking through an enchanted garden sprinkled with pixie dust. The items for sale are truly unique, and presented in a color coordinated tapestry of wonder. On the very first page, you realize you have come to some wonderful new place where mass merchandise can't survive. Each item presented is unique and unusual.
Perhaps Ebay was once this way too, but it is now a stodgy buying experience. Each day brings new changes to the platform that only highlights how awkward it all truly is. The blaring advertisements for typical electronic equipment, or movie stars discards just creates heartburn. It is like going to the restaurant everyone is talking about, and finding out the food is luke warm and tasteless.
Etsy is the site everyone loves to be part of, and Ebay is the site everyone loves to hate. I have a penchant for underdogs, and feel sorry for Ebay. They are trying very hard to become something hip and new, but stodgy just seems to cling to them.
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