There’s a shop in the best sellers’ list this morning selling just one pair of slippers for just £1.99. The sold items are very strange too. How could anyone make a pair of slippers for £1.99? How did they manage to get in the list?
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Looking at the shop, its definitely a dodgy one! 
It’s hard enough to get noticed and make sales at the moment, so it’s very annoying to see a shop like that on the bestsellers list 
xx
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Just reported the slipper shop as mass produced tat. Did ask in the report do we have to go to Alibaba and fill stores with cheap rubbish.
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The list is done based on value of sales so if all of their sold items were sold in the last couple of days then that could get them on the list (depending on how much they were selling them for).
I have reported them. I’m amazed they sold the items in their sold list - one is advertised as a woman’s siut and the picture is of a bag. I guess the Euro did it at £70 because the other 3 sold things don’t amount to much.
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Martine thank you for the laugh, just spat my coffee out at your wording.
Its entirely possible they were buying their own items to check that things were set up correctly (or other rather more dubious reasons)
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I reported then as obvious spam and something is is obviously very fishy . Spam and fish together make a distasteful dinner.
As they have knocked me down and out of the list I can tell you they will need to have sold about £200 worth to get to that position. I wonder if they sold something with mostly postage cost so they didn’t get Folksy fees charged on it …I note they only take PayPal so any fees are paid later . Very devious anyway and 100% not genuine
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Nothing looks handmade, even in the items they’ve sold, everything is in a different and wrong category, so many spelling mistakes, English can’t be their 1st language which makes me wonder if they’re in the UK. What do they call it when someone wants to hide money?
I reported the slippers yesterday when I spotted them on the front page…the £1.99 also includes postage! I thought there was something very dodgy about it.
How on earth does a shop with one mass produced item get onto the best sellers list? Makes a complete mockery of it.
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Think we will have to live with them there in the BS list for now as pretty sure the list can only be regenerated overnight and until that shop has been Removed @folksycontent PLEASE it will undoubtedly still be there tomorrow too…
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This topic makes my heart sink. I’ve just recently re-opened my shop on Folksy as my sales have dramatically dropped on Etsy and when I read something like this it makes me wonder whether it is worth all the effort of daily posting, etc.
Can I just ask you something please? On Folksy I have included P & P in my listing price as a way of attracting buyers but when I read that you don’t pay fees on postage costs I think that maybe I should revert back. What do you think?
I have Never included p&P. It is never free. The customers know someone has to pay for it and I see no point paying fees on it. I charge postage at cost so why would I then want to pay Folksy 6% Plus VAT on it !
E*** actively discourages charging it separately but we are Folksy and we do things differently here and we do things Better 
(That’s why my E** shop has been on holiday for about the last 8 years )
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There’s another one selling dog leads. A simple Google Images search reveals the exact same leads being sold all over the internet. They keep creeping in and all we can do is be vigilant. Getting on the best sellers list with a pair of Ali Express smiley slippers? Give me strength!
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According to their Sold list they’ve sold about 6 silly things and must then have deleted them unless they have hacked them into the system somehow. Who knows.
thanks @JOYSofGLASS
Think it has Gone
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I think these types of shops are buying their own items and i think its some sort of money laundering scheme. It could make me cry with frustration when these scammy ratbags are allowed to set up shop without any safeguarding. I know that would be an admin nightmare though.
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Someone mentioned perhaps they bought the items themselves ?? Is that even possible and what would be the point of it.
It’s impossible to get onto the best sellers list by selling something for 1.99, I know sometimes I have reached the bottom one or two with only £50 or so but it gets much harder to keep climbing and an extra £75 sale often moves it just one or two places when higher up the list, obviously it is determined by how much other people have sold the same day so it does vary but it would take a lot of 1.99 slippers to keep climbing