@BestMemories already posted the months of testing 
Targeting UK audiences with a SIM + static residential proxy — a few months of testing, and where it landed — and @Emanuel_Branson covered the phone + sticky proxy stack above. The question still open in here is the Etsy one, and it has a real answer buried in Etsy’s own help centre.
The short version, in four lines:
shop will not open → is your country on the Payoneer list?
on the list → a Payoneer account, then Etsy signup works
on neither list → a marketplace that takes every country
want a country’s feed → buy the placement, not a fake location
Etsy blocks rails, not countries
A new shop can open only where Etsy Payments works, and that is roughly forty countries. Outside them Etsy says temporarily unavailable and closes the form. That is the end of the signup page, not the end of your options.
The bridge almost nobody mentions
Etsy has a formal Payoneer partnership covering sixteen markets, and it was renewed through 2029 two weeks ago.
| region | countries on the list |
|---|---|
| Asia | Pakistan, India, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Thailand, China* |
| Middle East & Africa | Egypt, Georgia, UAE, Serbia |
| Americas | Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru |
| Europe | Ukraine |
*China: existing shops only. Check the page for the current footnote before you plan around it.
If your country is on that list, a Payoneer account is the only thing between you and an open shop — and their receiving accounts are the other half: real USD, EUR and GBP bank details in your own name, which is what a marketplace means when it asks for a bank in a supported country.
The organic answer first, because the ads line is not a beginner’s line
There is no setting that picks which country sees a normal post. TikTok says it plainly in its own privacy blog: your location is one signal, and how viewers react to a video carries more weight than your account country or language. So the work is making the video look like it belongs to that audience. Five levers, free:
Creator Search Insights — tiktok.com/csi and the same page inside the app. Pick the country, and it shows what people there actually search plus the topics with high interest and low supply. That gap list is your content calendar
Creative Center trends, region set to UK — hashtags, songs, creators and videos ranked for that country over 7, 30 or 90 days. Use the sound that is winning there this week, not the one winning globally
A real location tag — TikTok now runs a Nearby Feed in the UK and Europe, so a location that genuinely belongs to the video is a distribution signal it did not use before. Tag it when the place is part of the story, skip it when the place is irrelevant
TikTok Studio → Analytics → Followers — top territories and the activity chart. It is the only place TikTok publishes when your audience is online, and posting into that window is free reach- Write like the audience, not about them — UK spelling, UK references, captions in the same English the audience uses. The classifier reads your text before anyone watches it
Then, if you want to force the country rather than earn it: TikTok Ads location targeting does exactly that, and a small boost on your best organic video is how people test a market before committing to it.
On TikTok, buy the country instead of faking it
That thread never says this one: TikTok Ads lets you pick the country, the city and the language, and a small boost on your best organic video does more for reach than a proxy that has to fool the app every time you open it.
Faking a location changes who sees you. Buying the placement changes who you are shown to, deliberately.
YouTube and blogs
@Emanuel_Branson has this right — they are content-first. Upload from anywhere, write the title and description for the audience you want, and the recommendation engine tests it there. No proxy, no SIM, no factory reset.
If Etsy still says no, and what to do with the store instead
the shops that accept every country What are the best websites where we can set up an online store/shop for free that sells only digital products? - #14 by Prometheus
Payhip, Sellix, Ko-fi, Whop and their fees — all in our own thread.
And one habit worth keeping: build the product page once, then put the same listing on Etsy and two direct stores. One of them stays open no matter what a payment processor decides about your passport.
Etsy is a marketplace, not a licence to sell.
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