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The Neverending Fail Bowl
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BUY HANDMADE!
Nov 7, 200910:47 am
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Nov 7, 200910:48 am
What an asshole.
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Nov 7, 200910:52 am
I bet it doesn’t even have money loaded onto it.
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Nov 7, 200910:53 am
Wow, and they’re using etsy pricing logic too: $25.00 gift card for $22.00!
So, 20¢ to list, 77¢ sales fees… so that’s a profit of 21.03, assuming they didn’t use paypal…
Yup, etsy math!!!!!!
They should put this in a friggin gift guide!
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Nov 7, 200910:53 am
…or, better still…..
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Nov 7, 200910:57 am
if you buy another item from their shop, you pay double the shipping for this gem. fucking hilarious.
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Nov 7, 200911:14 am
*FACEPALM*
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Nov 7, 200911:18 am
The only thing that is clearly handmade is the photo of this gift card. The term ‘Nouvelle Vague’ comes to mind. I like this new category Helen.
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Nov 7, 200911:21 am
what a deal!
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Nov 7, 200911:35 am
The shipping cost being double if shipped with another item just adds to the beauty of it all.
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Nov 7, 200911:35 am
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Nov 7, 200911:39 am
Maybe they think this counts as vintage?
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Nov 7, 200911:44 am
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Nov 7, 200911:57 am
so this is the future of etsy… it was listed over a month ago and is still up, which doesn’t say a whole lot for how well they’re doing at getting this kind of garbage off the site. this user should be banned.
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Nov 7, 200912:08 pm
Wonder if she’ll raise the price now that she’s ‘famous’.
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Nov 7, 200912:10 pm
I understand how people feel about this kind of stuff, but please don’t turn people in or file complaints about what you see here. I really don’t want this to turn into the Etsy police. It would take all the fun out of it for me.
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Nov 7, 200912:41 pm
Yep, the seller took it down. Nothing like subverting the point of Etsy by selling mass produced crap. Etsy is about hand made crap. Besides, I don’t think I would ever trust buying a gift card from some random person.
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Nov 7, 200912:46 pm
With all due respect Helen Killer, if that is the way you feel, you should probably not post items that are against Etsy’s tou. It’s not reasonable to expect people not to flag items that shouldn’t be on Etsy in the first place. If you don’t want to turn into another ‘calling out’, then you should just stick to posting the kind of stuff you have been prior to this.
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Nov 7, 200912:48 pm
Wow. What a dumbass 
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Nov 7, 200912:49 pm
The weird thing is, the seller only pseudo-removed it. The listing is still there but the photos are gone… isn’t that still a TOU violation? LOGIC WINNAR!
Regardless, I’ve seen so many people selling their own used clothing (non-vintage or handmade clothing) and never bothered reporting it. Some people have their shops set up like mini garage sales. I don’t know that etsy has any other way to regulate it other than relying on people reporting items.
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Nov 7, 200912:58 pm
I agree Night Cowl. Etsy has a lot of rules about what sellers can and cannot do, but the big one, the one that holds the community together is the idea that items must be handmade, vintage or supplies. This is the first item I have seen to blatantly break that rule, and honestly the fact that its been up for a month signals the beginning of the end as far as I’m concerned. If these items are not taken seriously and removed promptly then it cheapens the work of any seller on the site.
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Nov 7, 20091:08 pm
Another blatant rule breaker using Etsy as a place to hock ones personal garbage! I have seen so many things like this on Etsy, even vacations offered. When is Etsy going to actually get off their asses and clean up all these ass holes? I have flagged until blue in the face for many things and they are still there months later. Apparently Etsy doesn’t give a crap! Handmade my white pasty ass!!
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Nov 7, 20091:10 pm
LMAO!! Anyone clicked on the pic? She has “removed it”
“sorry but someone didnt like that i had it on here. It is still available so contact me. thanks”
Someone?? Try the whole friggin’ community!! Freakin’ loser!!
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Nov 7, 20091:15 pm
someone was me. this was her response when i told her she was violating etsy’s terms of use:
“half of the items sold on here are not hand made, (detash, ect). Everyone else liked my items.”
personally, i won’t be happy until the listing is down.
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Nov 7, 20091:18 pm
You go missmoss!! She is obviously one of the illiterate people on Etsy that can’t read the Tos section.
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Nov 7, 20091:21 pm
I’m really just reacting to people yanking actual handmade stuff out of their stores (like the “tell the end of time” sign). But that’s a whole other issue.
So I stand corrected. Do what you must.
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Nov 7, 20091:24 pm
(((Helen))) We luvs ya and all the laughs you supply on a daily basis!!
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Nov 7, 20091:31 pm
I’ve never seen so many items litsted with so few sales
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Nov 7, 20091:42 pm
This person needs their shop booted off Etsy. The updated description shows the seller is a cheating witch, but only with a B. (can I say bitch here?)
Etsy reads this site, but just in case, I reported her as well.
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Nov 7, 20091:44 pm
In any good thing there will be bad. People will violate and try to get away with what they can.
As with anything, Etsy has its problems. It’s still a good site I enjoy.
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Nov 7, 20092:06 pm
What are you haters talking about!? This is a supply if ever I saw one.
A lovely pendant, a beautiful brooch – I can conceptu-visualize a rocking belt buckle, even.
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Nov 7, 20092:21 pm
She’s having an Etsy garage sale.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31498872
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31343683
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Nov 7, 20092:33 pm
I am surprised that the listing is still up… the removal of the photo only makes the TOS violation more blatant.
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Nov 7, 20092:38 pm
I’m glad you changed your mind Helen. This violates Etsy’s TOU on several counts. Some people here have wanted to report “offensive” items, but so long as it’s listed and tagged as “mature”, offensive items are allowed. In fact, I’d bet most of the Flags Etsy gets are matters of opinion. This isn’t.
Beyond what’s already been stated, Gift Certificates can only be sold for use at a user’s store. This is not opinion. This crosses more than one line set by Etsy for ALL their users.
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Nov 7, 20092:40 pm
Yeah I’m thinking that it’s probably not loaded.
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Nov 7, 20092:40 pm
If she takes it down we can’t laugh at it any more! If anything you should heart it like me, then you can enjoy it forever!
Weeeeeeeeeee!
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Nov 7, 20092:46 pm
if your going to sell non handmade or non craft detash junk. GO TO EBAY they will love it
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Nov 7, 20093:25 pm
The photo is spectacular.
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Nov 7, 20093:26 pm
lol she has taken it off because *someone* didnt like it but has a message saying it is still available
wtf?
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Nov 7, 20093:57 pm
#33 Actually, you can flag things that are not homemade on Etsy. I know because I flagged this particular item.
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Nov 7, 20093:57 pm
Not homemade or vintage that is. And by vintage something has to be at least 20 years old.
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Nov 7, 20094:34 pm
I’m 25 that means I’m vintage! I wonder if I can sell myself on Etsy?
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Nov 7, 20094:48 pm
all gone!
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Nov 7, 20094:52 pm
Ok, I actually thought it was a painting of a gift card. Cuz, you know, it’s so fuzzy, maybe it was stylistic. Maybe the seller should paint a replica and sell it with a gc so some part is actually hand-made…
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Nov 7, 20095:02 pm
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Nov 7, 20095:07 pm
now it says ‘pending item’ ’sorry’
Just. Remove. The. Listing.
It’s not that hard.
It is actually more work to remove the photos. Then go back and edit the title and description
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Nov 7, 20095:20 pm
haha @ #46!
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Nov 7, 20095:26 pm
I love this listing of her’s:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31343683
“Yes this is more than 20yrs old.” Think she get’s flagged a lot??
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Nov 7, 20095:51 pm
there is no way they were making resin bear figurines in 1989. and that snowglobe– come on! any idiot knows that the whole snowman trend is five years old, tops.
she bought all this shit at the dollar store a year ago, period.
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Nov 7, 20096:23 pm
Helen you may be the first person to get Etsy to do their fucking job and get rid of shit like this. Quite frankly, this is the best one you have listed.
It takes Regretsy to get something done on there. That is fucking sad, but at least it’s getting something done.
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Nov 7, 20096:25 pm
It’s gone!!
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Nov 7, 20096:47 pm
Now that link goes directly to something completely different http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31977111
I was reading Etsy TOU a few minutes ago (was curious) and it says you can’t sell something completely different under an existing listing. I imagine so they don’t get screwed over by people selling stuff off-site and then listing something else in its place. So, again, she appears to be in violation.
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Nov 7, 20096:58 pm
Beyond all the other aforementioned FAILS, this B also needs to learn how to use a camera. The item that is now placed at this link (as DucksNew pointed out) is supposed to be some kind of fish charms, but by the looks of the picture, they are blurry melted down silver turds.
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Nov 7, 20097:06 pm
Give the seller a break, #54, they had to rush something into the spot so they dumped a bunch of silver thingys on the table and snapped a cell phone pic. I had to pause several times while posting because “melted down silver turds” is giving me the giggles
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Nov 7, 20097:15 pm
Sad, indeed.
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Nov 7, 20097:22 pm
A gift card to the fucking Olive Garden? In what fucking universe is that handmade? What the hell was this idiot thinking? If she doesn’t want people calling her out, then maybe she should try not selling stuff that has no business on Etsy in the first place. Then again, her butthurt reaction is lulz, so…maybe she should keep doing what she’s doing.
Also, a note to the seller – macro setting, bitch. Learn how to use it.
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Nov 7, 20097:30 pm
@ Holly Weird
“macro setting, bitch. Learn how to use it” I totally heard this in Samuel L. Jackson’s voice! lol
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Nov 7, 20097:30 pm
ugh I look again at her shop and there’s STILL items there that violate TOS. This user just can’t follow the rules or bother reading them.
she must think the rules don’t apply to her because she’s special. just get her off etsy so she can make her home on Ebay
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Nov 7, 20097:37 pm
Stupid cow. If you had just added a few sequins and a bit of glitter you would have been home free!
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Nov 7, 20097:42 pm
Not even sequins and glitter. A piece of string serving as a chain would be enough to call it a necklace.
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Nov 7, 20098:03 pm
@ NinjaGato:
LOL Nice! I’m 23! 2 for one sale?
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Nov 7, 20098:29 pm
Her new pics are almost shitty enough to make the Front Page now.
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Nov 7, 20098:54 pm
ROFL
Look whats there now!!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31977111
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Nov 7, 20098:57 pm
maybe im a bit slow
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Nov 7, 20099:54 pm
Maybe the gift card was upcycled…and I wonder if the charms are Lucky Charms. I hear they’re magically delicious.
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Nov 7, 20099:59 pm
#59, I found several…like I said, I don’t know Etsy rules but I did read through them. I’m pretty sure listing different items in the same listing (if the difference is not color or size) is against their rules:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33568574
not to mention I don’t think Stitch is vintage.
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Nov 7, 200910:04 pm
Of course she’s from Fresno – as if I don’t see this kind of stupidity on a daily basis here…
Do you think I could fashion a cat o’ nine tails out of upcycled gift cards and smack her with it??
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Nov 7, 200910:48 pm
Fee avoidance ftw!
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Nov 7, 200910:54 pm
The card is gone now because I BOUGHT IT!!!
I am taking this homeless guy Alvin out to “dinner” tomorrow night with it.
He will have Dipping Sauces for Breadsticks, while I will have the Seafood Portofino.
Then after dinner, he will suck on my foot in the parking lot.(he has no teeth)
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Nov 7, 200911:01 pm
Ohboycattoy, you made me laugh like an idiot just now.
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Nov 7, 200911:03 pm
here is another little gem from this gal!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31500593
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Nov 7, 200911:45 pm
i highly doubt this is “vintage” either
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31978864
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Nov 8, 200912:05 am
She’s actually ok with the listing in #71, since sellers can sell supplies, provided the first tag is “supplies” and another tag is “commercial”. Ideally, this would be a pretty broad category, given some of the, um, “mediums” we’ve seen here…
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Nov 8, 200912:06 am
I do love how she’s reflexively cramming “It’s 20+ years old” in all her “vintage” listings. Because they’re obviously not and she obviously knows it.
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Nov 8, 20097:27 am
She’s no math genius: “20 + years old. =Grey and pink”
I failed Algebra but I’m pretty sure if you add 20 to “years old” the answer is not “grey and pink”. Everyone knows it’s 50 + years old that equals gray and pink…
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Nov 8, 20098:20 am
Its possible these things are from the late 80’s. It *is* however, still junk.
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Nov 8, 20099:45 am
You can call out sellers for breaking TOU on http://etsycallout.wordpress.com/
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Nov 8, 20091:11 pm
On a serious note, sellers like this are why a potential buyer like myself does nit shop at Etsy. I don’t have the time or desire to wade through pages and pages of mis-tagged crap.
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Nov 8, 20092:36 pm
She’s charging about 21.99 too much for a meal at Olive Garden.
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Nov 9, 200910:32 am
I’m on here for humor. Humor of all varieties.
The comments=awesome plus
Helen Killer’s choices for posts=fantastic plus
What I see as an artist/art teacher posted by these “artisans”=freaking piss-my-pants mind boggling
equals $21.99 plus s&h….. but is you’re from the Carolina’s I’ll credit you back the fees.
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Nov 9, 20094:49 pm
tabby cat, she spelled that carousel horse listing you mentioned in #73 as “carasol”…is this like a combo of aerosol and arousal? Lmfao…maybe she’s into hoof and mouth disease
i hope this bitch has to shut down her entire site for all of these violations…olive garden gift card…wtf…go sell that shit on ebay. etsy is for starving artists like myself. it just cheapens the whole experience. whatta a-hole she is.
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Nov 10, 20098:38 pm
Fresno is known for being a crystal meth production town… I think that pretty much explains everything.
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At least they knocked a few dollars off.
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