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We read the disclosures. Claims about passive income, examined until they confess.

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Case #004

Filed 2026-07-18PRINT-ON-DEMAND6 min readPassive Income Autopsy

“Faceless print-on-demand stores are passive income.”

BUSTEDConfidence: HIGH

Etsy's own FY2025 filings yield a mean of $1,868 in annual sales per active seller — about $156 a month, before Etsy's 24.2% take and before any production, ad, or tool costs. That mean counts only sellers with at least one sale or charge, and the platform is contracting on both the seller and buyer side. Our own 450-data-point research sweep found no documented channel that works with zero audience, zero persona, and zero ongoing labor at once.

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4 cases on file

  1. #004“Faceless print-on-demand stores are passive income.”BUSTEDHIGH2026-07-18PRINT-ON-DEMAND
  2. #003“Start a blog, earn passive income in months.”BUSTEDMED2026-07-18BLOGGING
  3. #002“Day trading for a living is learnable by most people.”BUSTEDHIGH2026-07-18DAY-TRADING
  4. #001“MLM is a real path to passive income.”BUSTEDHIGH2026-07-18MLM

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