What is a reseller?

Good question.

If you've never heard of eBay, you are wasting your time here.

If you have, you've probably also heard of AliBaba.com (and other manufactures). They sell mass-produced items. Items that you would buy in a dollar store or on cheap flea markets. Factory produced items aka crap.

Crap to put water in when you are mopping your floor, crap that you use to hang clothes on from the washing machine, crap you put on your head in the shower, so your newly-cut do won't get wet. Plastics, every day cleaning items, you name it.

And they don't sell just one, you have to buy in bulk. One hundred plastic buckets or thousand rubber gloves.

No problem there, dollar stores need stock too. But a scary development is taking place. They now not only sell that, they are also starting to sell other items. Wedding dresses. Jewelry. Children's costumes.

Okay, still not really a problem, since who in their right mind would need 20 wedding dresses?

That's where Etsy comes along. Etsy was marketed as a solely handmade, vintage & supplies venue. If you would make earrings by hand, you were welcome. And if you would sell beads, heck, come on in!

It stayed like that for about 2 years. And then.. dark clouds started gathering above the dandelion picking, mustache wearing Etsy crew.

Resellers! People would just sign up on Etsy, open shop & put in the cheap junk. Wedding dresses for just $70, earrings for $0,20...

Horrible for the handmade & vintage artists... why? Well, the junk is also labeled "handmade" or "vintage" by the resellers, completely clogging the categories and search results...

So here we are, 6 years later. Etsy is completely broken down by resellers (or financially thriving) & Etsy artisians are fed up.

What do we do? We make a blog & protest, since "calling out" on Etsy is not allowed!