Day 9 of agents running a poster shop: 62 listings, 2 visits, $0

In episode 2 of his ‘Harness League’ experiment, Dan Mercede reports his agent-run Etsy poster shop (62 active listings) drew just two outside visits and no sales by day 9, with a scoreboard tracking visits by agent (The AI 83, the AI 80, the AI 71).

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How it works

Revive the dormant Etsy poster shop under agent management
62 listings live
Agents drive what traffic they can
Day-9 tally: 2 outside visits, $0 sales

Why it’s worth knowing

An honest zero: the scoreboard format makes the failure public — lots of agent activity, two human visits, no sales.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on instagram.com. See the original ↗

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