Diversity

As Etsy grows daily, resellers are thriving. And how sad this may be, sometimes it's also nice to have a little fun with it. One of our friends made this beautiful Treasury:

Diversity - a Treasury

Here is a screenshot, in case you do not wish to open Etsy for boycotting reasons or if you don't want to spend the afternoon crawling your way back out of this reseller maze:

Feel free to use this blogpost to report these shops. And do you have something to report? Let me know via etsyreseller@gmail.com and also add me to your circle! As far as I'm concerned, I am not done raging yet. I have only just begun...

About a branch & a bird...

True handmade items are a pleasure for the eyes (well, not always; Aunt Clara and her horrible glue gun crafts come to mind), IF they are truly handmade.

To quote Helen Killer: "Sometimes 'handmade' means made by many tiny hands in third world countries".

To be honest, I was a little surprised. Sure, I make jewelry myself, so I have seen the supplies to make this particular necklace. I wouldn't buy them, since I am not a fan of this style. But I thought maybe some of the jewelry artists would.

I guess I am still a little too optimistic. I am optimistic as an idiot.

Of course you wouldn't take the time to actually make this necklace, if you can just buy them in bulk from Alibaba.

Get ready to hurl...

Today we present the following "handmade" shops:

• JewelryMORIAH
• RoyalGoldGifts
• MeBracelet
• bluelilytrinkets
• Thedandelionjewelry

Needless to say, above shops are just what was spat out by Etsy's first search page result. My stomach couldn't bare page 2.

Now on to the fun part. The "unique" items:

There ya go. I showed you just 5. There are 760 listings of this necklace.
Crying is allowed, so go ahead. Oh wait, I almost forget the best part:

You're welcome.

The New Etsy Reseller Blog!

After seeing yet ANOTHER reseller pop up on Etsy with 602 bracelets priced at $3 each, I had enough. I have been an avid reader of the Regretsy blog for years, but unfortunatly it is no longer active.

While Googling for a place where I could call out the resellers I have found (since Etsy isn't doing ANYTHING about it & has some vague statements about "collectives"), I did indeed found some blogs, but they are all no longer active.

So here it is! The New Etsy Reseller Call Out blog! Please feel free to send me everything you have found about resellers, pictures, names, shops, products, I want everything.

So, here is the one that drove me over the edge. A stack of bracelets in different colors. The first shop is called "dailyideas" (which means they just steal shit & mark it as being handmade):

Aweeee, isn't that cute? Then I copied the image link of one item and went to Google. Clicked "Images" on top. Clicked the little camera in the searchbox. Pasted in the URL of the item. Hit search and tada: mass produced junk.

Because another shop on Etsy is selling the EXACT same shit. Here it is:




And yes; I have reported both & sent them both a message:

Hello,
You are selling exactly the same items as this shop:

[Etsy shop URL]

Might want to check up on that, I think you both have the same supplier :)
Keep up the "handmade" work!

Love 

Not that it will matter, but hey! One can always dream!

PS: not kidding, send me everything you've got!