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It says 1, and I can see plenty of things like it on Etsy.

Then those things do not share two of its tags, or they are more than 40% away on price. Tags are typed by sellers and are often sparse or idiosyncratic — a maker who tagged their mug “wheel thrown” and one who tagged theirs “handthrown” have nothing in common as far as this can tell. The tags it used are printed on the entry, so you can see exactly what it was working from.

It says 40, and none of them are anything like it.

The other failure of the same mechanism: popular tags collect things that are alike in words and not in substance. The count is a floor on replaceability, not a promise about taste. What the rule actually is.

Something I saved sold and the email had nothing in it.

That was the message. Most things on Etsy are made once, and when there is genuinely nothing comparable left, saying so is more use than three vaguely similar objects offered because the email had to contain something.

Why did the number drop without anything changing?

Because the things like it sold. That is the whole second half of this app: you deliberate for three weeks and the alternatives quietly disappear underneath you.

Why is only one item re-measured a day?

Because a search costs a request and a list of twenty would cost twenty a day for a number that moves slowly. Everything is re-checked daily for the thing that matters — whether it sold — and the count comes round in turn. Anything that sells is measured immediately.

Can I paste a shop instead of a listing?

Not today. This works from one listing’s tags and price; a shop has neither.

Do you see my favourites?

No. There is no Etsy sign-in and no connection to your Etsy account of any kind — everything comes from listings you pasted in. Every field kept.

How do I stop everything?

Delete everything on your account page removes everything saved and your address in one transaction, immediately.