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  1. cappysue
    June 17, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    I would pay her the fucking 35.00 to just stop and set down the plastic rhinestones, glue gun, and magic marker.

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  2. turtlegirl76
    June 17, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    Poor Lincoln.

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  3. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 1:34 pm

    That shit isn’t worth a plug nickel.

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  4. Skully
    June 17, 2010 at 1:35 pm

    Reminds me of the Beatles song, Penny Lame.

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  5. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    The shipping is $6.75 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Sharpie shit on a penny + ten cents worth of glued on jewelz -$41.75
    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
    Good luck & fuck you.

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  6. HomeAlone
    June 17, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    What’s with all the sharpie-embellished art on Etsy?

    In my metals class in art skool, using glue in jewelry was considered cheating of the worst kind. I expect those little plastic sparklies to be bezel set for $35.

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  7. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    Abe would be more depressed than he ever was in life if he could see this .

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  8. mtopia
    June 17, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    Tyvler is such a unique name. Megan and Kevin are probably jealous.

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  9. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    If someone is dum enough to buy this , they need a hell of a lot more than luck.

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  10. Wilma Fingerdoo
    June 17, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    What ever happened to “find a penny, pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck”?
    Add bedazzles and sharpie chicken scratch, and waaa-laaa, you charge 35 bucks.

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  11. cappysue
    June 17, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    What is really odd is there are things in her shop that while really frilly look like they took some time, skill and effort to make. So why the hell are they less than the crap penny?

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  12. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    I’ll buy the penny that says fucking if it was signed by the Killer, for five bucks to go to charity.

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  13. curlytopnola
    June 17, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    as the keeper of all useless knowledge, i must point out that it is a federal crime to destroy U.S. currency with fraudulent intent.
    i’m calling the cops.

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  14. GoreKitten
    June 17, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Find a penny pick it up
    and all the day you’ll have good luck!

    Find a penny dress it up
    Then list on esty and make big bucks!

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  15. Wilma Fingerdoo
    June 17, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    I wish,
    I wish,
    with all my heart,
    that Lucky Penny seller,
    would give up art.

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  16. IscreamUscream
    June 17, 2010 at 1:50 pm

    Worth exactly a penny–but only if the rhinestones are scraped off.

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  17. Honest Ape
    June 17, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    $35 for a defaced penny? What the fuck kind of non-cents is that?

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  18. GoreKitten
    June 17, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    She cound’t even cut the hot-glue strings off before listing it???

    And is that a needle threader I spy holding the penny to the chain?

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  19. methuselah
    June 17, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    I would like one of these to commemorate my friends Nathaniel, Sebastian, Anastasia and Christiana. Thank you.

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  20. Recovering Crack Baby
    June 17, 2010 at 1:55 pm

    #13 curlytopnola : OMG there is two of you with an entire head of useless knowledge. I live with the other one.

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  21. Recovering Crack Baby
    June 17, 2010 at 1:56 pm

    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.

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  22. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    @meth, at her rates that’ll cost you an arm & a leg, ‘cuz she’d have to use silver dollars. For the same price you could go to Tiffs and get some shit that at least comes in a nice blue box.

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  23. Recovering Crack Baby
    June 17, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    Good for you Killer……putting in your 4 cents worth.

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  24. starrydreams
    June 17, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    The seller says the names are inscribed. Since when is writing something with a sharpie inscribing?

    From her bio:

    The innovative designs…. are inspired by the whimsical world of fairy tales.

    Ok- that explains it.

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  25. starrydreams
    June 17, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    #23 RCB- good one!! :)

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  26. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    Ten bucks for a signed ‘say what’ penny to go to the animal care in the gulf & I’m not shitting pennies .

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  27. Recovering Crack Baby
    June 17, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    Hamoza- you are asking her to participate in illegal, criminal activities. So, if you will Killer I want one too.

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  28. Memiki
    June 17, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    What. No. Just… no. NO. I spend all that money on gemstone and high quality glass beads for my jewelry-making… if one of these, and I mean a single shit encrusted penny, is sold, I will slit my wrists.

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  29. GoreKitten
    June 17, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    #26
    I’ll take one too!

    Hell, give me 2! :D

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  30. frilled
    June 17, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    Regretsy bait!!!

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  31. Memiki
    June 17, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    and also, @#13- yes, it’s illegal- better call them “coppers!”

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  32. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 2:13 pm

    I knew from the get go that Regretsyians made good cents.Maybe we’re onto something here….break the law? Bring it on , that never stopped me before if it was for a good cause.

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  33. maneatingflower
    June 17, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    Have a penny? Leave a penny. Need a penny? Take it, glue some shit to it, and charge an assload for it.

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  34. Recovering Crack Baby
    June 17, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    #32 hamoza- You are scaring me hammy. I want my Mommy and my Machine Gun.

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  35. moi
    June 17, 2010 at 2:16 pm

    I’m more amazed at the inability to put the decimal point in the right place than the lack of skill involved in the actual product. Because surely it was meant to go to one or two places to the left.

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  36. moi
    June 17, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    6.75 for shipping also.

    no words.

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  37. Clare
    June 17, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    It’s great how the gemstones are stuck on using snot from each kid. It’s this little attentions to detail that make hand-made truely priceless.

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  38. mazumi
    June 17, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    I just made this. I’ll sell it to you for $45.

    http://sarahbohr.com/wp-content/gallery/saywhat.jpg

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  39. klingtocash
    June 17, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    I love how the glue is all messy and dripping down the side of the penny. Does that cost extra?

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  40. HelenaHandbasket
    June 17, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    Sorry, but if it is purported to bring luck to the one whose name appears, fuck you all, I’m writing my OWN name with a Sharpie on all my pocket change.

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  41. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 2:28 pm

    @ Clare, stuck on with snot, bwahaha, that IS priceless.

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  42. voicesinmyhead
    June 17, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    I have a set of sharpies in hot colors like pink orange, turquoise. I can make some of those and send them to myself for free. I will put her ass out of business.

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  43. Holytape
    June 17, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    I can see it now. Soon, in a federal prison….

    “So what are you in for?”

    “Tax fraud, ponzi schemes, insider trading, you know the usual. And you?”

    “I bedazzled a fucking penny.”

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  44. curlytopnola
    June 17, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    in the words of the incomparable judas priest…
    “breakin the law, breakin the law”
    it seems our crafter has inspired a currency revolution!
    but that’s a bandwagon i’ll jump on fer sure.
    if killer’s handin’ out defiled american coinage, i want one too.

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  45. Dynomoose
    June 17, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    The glue gun ooze is a classy touch.

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  46. pplrdum
    June 17, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    OMG! There are NINE goddamned steps to ordering this shit!

    My toddler son handed me a dried up ‘boogie’ the other day that I’d rather keep than this crap.

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  47. voicesinmyhead
    June 17, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    If I made this my own mother wouldn’t want it. I know for sure she wouldn’t want one made some crafting on crack fucktard. My nephews came home from preschool and told their mom they had made “arts and craps”, and I think that assessment is dead on with this one.

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  48. Goldbunny
    June 17, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Can you really call it inscribing when you took 30 seconds to grab a sharpie and scrawl names on a penny?

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  49. whimsicalisthenics
    June 17, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    I’m in awe of the irony involved in marketing this as a gift for mothers and grandmothers, traditional recipients of every crappy craft project school teachers and camp counselors can dream up. (Not that I don’t love every single dried bean mosaic and painted flower pot I’ve ever received…)

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  50. MAG
    June 17, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    Lincoln Penny $0.01
    Sharpie $1.00
    Tube of Crazy Glue $0.75
    Cheap Plastic Bedazzles $0.10
    Tacky Chain (Bubble Gum Charm) $0.25

    Sucker to buy this crap…. Priceless.

    There are somethings money can’t buy, for everything else, there is Etsy.

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  51. Patty has been abducted by an Alien
    June 17, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    When my 3 kids were aged 6 years, 3 years, & 18 months, my in-laws sent them each a from-the-mint set of coins, sealed in a plastic thingy, from their birth years (’89, ’92, ’93). I thought, “What a stupid, age-inappropriate gift for someone’s grandkids.”

    Seeing this, I’m so fucking glad my mother-in-law doesn’t know about etsy or trust “the internets” with buying stuff online.

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  52. Stretch65
    June 17, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    Turns out the idea for “the Lucky Penny three Gemstone special collection” came from her God Box!

    “Dear God is it OK to charge $42 for a penny with hot glue on it” signed evalinehorng

    “But of course my Child. You so special and deserving of other peoples money. Your fooling other people out of their money makes me laugh!! Give no second thought to the Felony you are committing by defacing Federal currency” -GOD(aka the Holy Roller)

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  53. Mrs.Vagoo
    June 17, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    @#47. Not much makes me literally lol–but “arts and craps” did it.

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  54. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    My dog Harry really did crap something like this out once after he got into some trouble. Being a dog of great elegance & refinement when he is not in trouble , I’d wager he has better lettering skills than this .

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  55. Chrisnyc1213
    June 17, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    Well, that’s one way to get cut out of Mommy’s will.

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  56. razberries
    June 17, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    she also has earrings in this shop that are about 32 bucks with shipping? and they aren’t real sterling silver? highway robbery…
    http://www.etsy.com/listing/46535955/sailor-steering-wheel-dangle-earrings
    seems her “trademark” is gluing a bow onto stuff.

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  57. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    Yeah WTF is up with the shipping rates? She’s in New York, not New Caledonia.

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  58. hamoza
    June 17, 2010 at 4:58 pm

    Oh well, Styler & Kevinas luck ran out.

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  59. Vile & Evil Debbie Downer
    June 17, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    Well screw you guys – I’m getting one for my new figurine:

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  60. mnemonides
    June 17, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    It’s actually NOT illegal to do odd things to coins as long as you aren’t attempting fraud–i.e. trying to create a different coin, etc., etc. Just squashing it up/bedazzling it/stamping things on it/making it into jewelry/hanging it off your feathered codpiece is just dandy as far as the Fed is concerned. U.S. Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331, just like it says in the listing.

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  61. mnemonides
    June 17, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    well, actually, like it should have said in the listing had she not totally fucked up the cite.

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  62. MyEyesMyEyes
    June 17, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    I wonder if this are-teest is the fiance of the Hello Kitty bong guy?

    I don’t know why all the sellers on Etsy are concerned about the Nigerian email scammers when there are people scamming them out of $34.99 right on their own site.

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  63. beaglemixtape
    June 17, 2010 at 6:21 pm

    #48: No, I’m pretty sure you can’t call it inscribing.

    Here’s what it looks like when it’s done the RIGHT way:

    http://lovetokensociety.110mb.com/

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  64. redredred
    June 17, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    Dear Regretsians,
    I am deeply and profoundly sorry that this….well…THIS, is a product of my homeland, New York. I know not, nor understand, what she does or why. Nor do I know, what in fact, she’s really keeping in that glue gun. For she surely must be snorting something. You needn’t forgive her (I certainly don’t), but show mercy on my home. We didn’t think it would be necessary for our legal system to make this a criminal offense. Obviously, we were wrong. I’m sorry.

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  65. Rob T Firefly
    June 17, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    Last week I received one of those pieces of junk mail with a penny glued to the letter to make some sort of point. If I’d known that fucker was worth $35 I’d never have thrown it into my neighbor’s pool.

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  66. spandy
    June 17, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    Beaglemixtape@63~ Thanks for that site.
    I have a love token like that from a long gone ancestor, properly inscribed with her name ~ Dolly.
    It’s fun to wear when I’m feeling dollish.

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  67. ChronicFabulist
    June 17, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    I have been lurking Regretsy since one week after April opened its bloggy doors. In all that time, I have commented only once (cuz baby, I like to WATCH).
    But this, THIS listing has moved me to put in my two cents (which, incidentally, is worth twice as much as this item):

    Um. Add this pendant to the sack of pennies you will use to beat some cents into this seller.

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  68. Snargasm
    June 17, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    Uhhhhh…..

    I have solid sterling silver and real gemstone earrings for sale that cost less.

    You get two of them.
    Shipping is free.

    I think I’m in the wrong fucking business!

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  69. GoreKitten
    June 18, 2010 at 6:14 am

    Lol… she lowered her prices. :P

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  70. beqi
    June 18, 2010 at 7:00 am

    After getting assassinated, THIS is the worst thing that’s happened to Abraham Lincoln. Ever.

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  71. laughinglurker
    June 18, 2010 at 7:35 am

    Gee regrestians….penny for your thoughts….

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  72. polkadotbananas
    June 18, 2010 at 8:54 am

    She offers free shipping for orders over $100, Because, you know, pennies and cheap rhinestones weigh SO much.

    This listing makes me sad to be a seller on etsy.

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  73. Buzzkill To Teenagers
    June 18, 2010 at 9:38 am

    17 Honest Ape – I snorted Diet Dr Pepper out of my nose when I saw your icon and screen name. Damn that hurts!

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  74. strangelittlegirl
    June 18, 2010 at 10:00 am

    That’s just wrong. It hurts my heart.

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  75. val
    June 18, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    lmao…really? I mean REALLY?

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  76. StaticCling
    June 18, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    Can I get ‘Caveat – Emptor – Suckers’ on mine, please?

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  77. nickiefrye
    June 19, 2010 at 5:00 pm

    $35??!!! What the??

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  78. TooManyCookbooks
    June 20, 2010 at 12:11 pm

    Aww, bad old HK — you hurted her feelings! Remember, kids — if you offer anything more critical than cupcakes and back-pats, you’re a meanie-pants hater with no life and no skills of your own.

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  79. takilasunrise
    June 21, 2010 at 9:18 am

    Apparently, the “aww, don’t feel bad” posters in the thread didn’t get to actually see a picture of the penny pendant! Sorry, but gluing rhinestones on a penny and writing in Magic Marker don’t cut it as jewelry……..she would have been better off just gluing on a bail and hanging it on a chain!

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  80. Bronc Drywall
    June 21, 2010 at 9:59 am

    24 hours later, she’s still going strong. Still answering every comment, still saying “I guess I’m over it now…” Isn’t that nice for her. She’ll never have this kind of audience again.
    It’s a penny with magic marker writing on it. It looks like a very, very small child made it. We don’t have to pretend it’s cute or good. I see no value in telling someone they’re good at something when that’s untrue.
    Oh, wait. I’m just jealous. No way I could have done something like that.

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  81. takilasunrise
    June 21, 2010 at 11:28 am

    To quote the Etsy Call Out blog’s motto……

    “But then I am a jealous hating bitch who has no life”……

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  82. TooManyCookbooks
    June 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm

    It’s breathtaking, isn’t it, Bronc? The whole acting like what she made required a huge amount of skill or design or effort or anything, and that it is A MASTERPIECE and how dare anyone subject her to criticism. . .all while flinging insults at people they find ‘mean’. I’d love to see those fuckers endure art school. That’s a truly vicious crowd.

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  83. Dynomoose
    June 21, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    could someone PLEASE link me to the drama. Email me. FB me. Whatever. I have to see the whine fest

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  84. steamcat5
    June 21, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    #65 Rob T Firefly :
    “Last week I received one of those pieces of junk mail with a penny glued to the letter to make some sort of point.”

    Ooo! Those make the best pieces of junk mail to put in the envelope and mail back to the company who sent it to you; they have to pay the shipping both ways on their silly gimmick. (Yes, I have done this, when I was bombarded by a particularly large ampount of junk mail one month, and it felt GOOD.)

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  85. ballyhoo
    March 16, 2011 at 5:44 am

    Clearly I can’t make that shit myself, and I can even get the glue strings all over it all by myself too! I’ll even save $9.99!

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