There are a a number of explanation why Etsy is unlikely to offer the reply. The principle cause: the corporate will report financials for the primary three months of the yr, however the strike occurred in April. 

Another excuse: it appears unlikely the corporate would think about the strike to have had a cloth affect on its numbers. Over the course of eBay’s historical past, it skilled related boycotts, and we do not recollect it ever characterizing any of them as having had an affect on its quarterly earnings.

That is to not say Etsy’s CEO and its Chief Monetary Officer will not handle the strike in any respect, whether or not explicitly or implicitly. The strike received monumental media protection, and executives could wish to pivot the dialog by telling analysts it’s “listening” to sellers, because it did on April twentieth in a company weblog publish.

“To assist our ever-growing neighborhood and assist our sellers compete in an more and more crowded ecommerce panorama, we should proceed to put money into essential areas, akin to advertising, buyer assist, and preserving the integrity of our market. Final week, we modified our transaction payment from 5% to six.5%. Whereas payment modifications are by no means straightforward – particularly for small enterprise homeowners – this resolution was primarily based on a whole lot of cautious thought and analysis, trying on the vital investments to proceed bettering the expertise for our clients (consumers and sellers).

“We have heard our neighborhood ask for extra particulars on how this alteration will finally profit our sellers. In the present day, we’re offering extra context and updates on efforts already underway.”

(Discover the wording – Etsy mentioned the neighborhood wished particulars on how the change would profit sellers, however relating to the petition, that is not what sellers had been calling for.)

Etsy will probably report second-quarter earnings in August. By then, will the strike be a distant reminiscence?