Shoppers on Etsy are looking for unique handmade gifts. What they’re not looking for is to be duped by fake deals. Etsy is allowing sellers to use fake countdown timers to make it look like discounts ...

“When you pull back the curtain, it’s terrifying,” said Teresa Murray, Consumer Watchdog Director for U.S. PIRG Education Fund and author of Trouble in Toyland 2024, PIRG’s 39th annual report. “We ...