![]() "I'm in between whether I should start cutting my losses and then use the money that's been made so far into other endeavors, or keep doing what I'm doing, just start focusing more locally rather than online. "For me, it means we're going out of business," he said. The rule likely means game over for Linares' candy upstart, called Alinby. In the last few days, he began receiving takedown notifications from TikTok stating that his shop had violated its policies. Linares garnered over 1,400 sales through TikTok Shop in the last month, per documentation viewed by Insider. ![]() Linares, who previously worked as a truck driver logging around 500 miles a day between Orlando and Tallahassee, started selling candy on TikTok Shop about six weeks ago when he discovered he could make money by dehydrating and reselling Skittles purchased off of wholesale sites like BJ's. "A lot of small businesses, they went from hundreds of sales a day to zero sales overnight," said Chrystian Linares, a Florida-based TikTok Shop merchant who sells freeze-dried Skittles on the app. The policy is having an immediate impact on small business owners who have come to rely on TikTok Shop as a tool to drive sales of products they make at home. It said it added clarifying language earlier this month. Have an account? Log in.Ī TikTok spokesperson said the company isn't changing its policy but is instead adding more specific language prohibiting the sale of homemade food products. This story is available exclusively to Business InsiderĪnd start reading now. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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