Every time someone says I bought it on Etsy it's always the beginning of the Conversation I bought it on Etsy and we Had some guest over uh the other night And they were admiring our plates and I Was like oh we bought these plates from A seller in Ukraine and in fact we Bought them from the seller in Ukraine Before the war broke out and then of Course once the war broke out we went Back to say can we support you and we we Bought some more it turns out a lot more People are doing that there's about 30,000 sellers in Ukraine selling about $200 million worth of goods to the Etsy Community that's a lot of hard currency Going into Ukraine when the war broke Out we had all these people come to Etsy And just start searching for Ukrainian Sellers because they wanted a way to to Connect and they wanted a way to support People it's it's those kinds of stories That are happening every day on Etsy That would never happen anywhere else
