Companies like Shopify and Etsy have provided guidance to help their sellers navigate this new policy.
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Rhett Buttle,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
As a result, the market has slowed down since the beginning of the year, with inventory piling up and giving buyers an opportunity to negotiate prices down with sellers.
The lack of clarity is compounded by the fact that many of Turning Point’s largest vendors are limited liability companies registered in states that do not mandate public ownership disclosure.
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Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
20 Sep. 2025
Expect family-friendly activities, including a retro photo booth, local food vendors, a giant birthday cake, kids activities and live music from Peninsula rock band Effie Zilch.
In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Affirm, PayPal, Afterpay—everyone is targeting the same merchants and users.
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