From the Showcase Gateway:
The Next Showcase spots will go on sale Monday, April 30th. We will be selling the next two weeks of the main Showcase as well as three weeks of a special mother’s day Showcase.
The Mother’s Day Showcase isn’t up yet. Matt, Etsy Admin, has commented twice:
matt says:
I am very sorry about that. I am issuing each person who had a spot today a full refund. The Showcase will be going up later today/ So you will still get most of the day in addition to a full refund.I apologize for the foul up.
Posted at 7:53 am, April 16 2007 EST
matt says:
It will be added later today and all those who had spots scheduled for today will be refunded their money.(they will also appear for the second half of the day) I am very sorry for the inconvenience. There were some outstanding technical concerns that kept us from adding it.
Posted at 7:48 am, April 16 2007 EST
Thanks to starrydesigns for the heads-up.
Those who bought showcases on days when site maintenance was required can request refunds.
From Rob in a comment (#27) at the Etsy Garden:
As in each instance before, we’ll gladly refund your $7, just email support@etsy.com.
Thanks to Carrie of Yarn Girl Stuff for this tip!
Read the blog post here.
UPDATE: Chris explains “Showcase Magic“:
RevolvingDork says:
The super-slowness ( worse than regular slowness ) is being caused by the showcase registration rush, which started at noon EST.It should be out of our systems in a few minutes — it’s almost sold out.
Posted at 12:37 pm, April 13 2007 EST
From his lockdown post:
RevolvingDork says:
Showcase-specific lag is done with, now we’re jsut in regular lag territory: 5078920
Posted at 6:14 pm, April 13 2007 EST
No comment - feel free to post below.
Information comes from this thread.
For more information on how the Showcase (a form of paid advertising on Etsy) works, please see this Etsy blog post. Also, please note, the rules may change, so please keep an eye on the Etsy blog for specifics about the April 13th sale.
Something to consider when purchasing Showcase dates is this undocumented bug. Please read the entire thread to understand the implications for purchasing spots on certain dates.
