Etsy
Buyer Check.

Yes, fully free, no account or credit card required. There's a daily limit on free use; create an account or upgrade for higher daily limits.

No. Buyers are never notified when you use Buyer Check. Searches and reviews are completely confidential, with no trace visible to the buyer.

Most Etsy buyers are great, but when an order, message, refund request, or review threat feels off, it helps to have more context before you respond. A buyer check lets you see whether other sellers have had similar experiences with that buyer, so you can make a calmer, more informed decision.

A few negatives don't automatically mean cancel, so read them carefully. Often the right move is adding tracking, insurance, or photo documentation of your shipment. For very concerning histories, you can choose to cancel and refund.

Yes. After viewing a buyer's profile, click "Write a review" to share your experience anonymously. Your review helps other sellers and grows the community-powered buyer database.

Etsy reviews (orange) = feedback the buyer left for sellers they purchased from. RankHero reviews (teal) = feedback sellers in the RankHero community left about the buyer. Together they give you both sides of the buyer's history.

RankHero Buyer Check — the tool you're using right now. It covers the same use case as Karen Check, screening buyers before you fulfill an order, and adds more on top: alongside available Etsy buyer review history, you get community-submitted reviews from other sellers and a buyer rating system. Karen Check was mainly a lookup tool; Buyer Check gives you both sides of a buyer's history.

Karen Check relied on Etsy buyer review data that used to be available through Etsy's API. When Etsy moved off its older API and removed that access, Karen Check could no longer pull the buyer review history it needed, so it stopped working — the same change that affected tools like EtsyCheck and eRank's Bad Buyer Check.

Etsy changed access to certain review and feedback data when it moved from its older API to its newer one. Etsy never gave a detailed public explanation, but the practical result was that outside tools could no longer access individual buyer feedback in the same way.

RankHero refreshes Etsy review data daily so buyer history stays as current as possible. There can be a short delay of a few days before the newest reviews appear, but the data is updated regularly to keep results useful for sellers.

You can, but use it as one signal among many. Etsy allows seller cancellations, but frequent cancellations can hurt your shop. Document your reasoning and follow Etsy's cancellation policies.