Yeah, you have to put in the work, read all the descriptions, look at the images, see their bio, look at their location, and the tricky, yet most obvious thing, is if they have a "production partner", which you are supposed to specify if you don't make the thing yourself. Even if people fill it in, Etsy makes it purposely hard to find that info and anyone not using Etsy as a seller wouldn't even know it's a thing to look for.

If something looks too good or too produced in images, and the cost seems too good, it probably is to good to be true. You can Google image search their main picture and find where else it's being sold. If they have a lot of sales (like thousands), look much more closely as most artisans don't get that high unless they are pretty good.

Clothing is nearly impossible to find anything that isn't just a drop shipper. Anything from a country that you think would be sketchy is 90% of the time, which sucks for the amazing people there, but it's such an easy signal to see. Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, almost always all scams, dropship or ripoff factories.

It's sad and frustrating just how much worse Etsy gets year after year. We've got 5 shops on there and see all the BS and how it hurts us. My wife can't even shop on the platform anymore because it's too hard to find actual handcrafted type stuff and we know what we are doing. If they'd let people report shops it would get cleaned up fast, but they'd lose so much money they'd rather kill themselves first, they are incredibly greed oriented.