IRON ETSY
Last night on the Regretsy Facebook page, we played a new game I’m calling IRON ETSY.
Here’s how it works.
I pick a seller who can do a custom order in 90 minutes.
I put the listing up on Facebook, and people have an hour to figure out what the seller should make.
The suggestion with the most “like” votes wins.
The seller has 90 minutes to complete the task, photograph it and send it to me.
I post the results.
I got this idea a few days ago when I noticed a custom listing on Etsy for a drawing of anything you want for $8. I thought that was a pretty good deal, but I was even more impressed when I noticed this drawing in the seller’s store:
You really can’t beat that level of insanity in my book, so Alana became the first artist tapped to play this game.
The suggestions came in pretty fast. At the end of the hour, we had over 200 of them. Here are your top suggestions from the Facebook page:
With 27 votes
With 60 votes
With 74 votes
And the winner, with 89 votes
Click to see the finished product
The final product was so beloved, that we immediately put it on T-shirts and other crap, now available in our Zazzle store. Proceeds will be split between the artist and Regretsy’s charity fund.
Never Forgetsy T-Shirt
Never Forgetsy Tote Bag
Never Forgetsy Mousepad
Thanks for playing!
September 14, 2010 at 1:44 pm
You should put just the chip and frog art on a shirt with the caption “I will never Frogetsy!”
September 14, 2010 at 1:51 pm
lol, I would love this on a shirt
September 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I wish I could draw that fast. Props to Alana!
September 14, 2010 at 2:30 pm
2 words for your Zazzle store: CHRISTMAS CARDS.
September 14, 2010 at 2:34 pm
omg, forget my idea for the depiction of Lilith marching defiantly out of the Garden of Eden, tearing her wings off as she goes, I’m gonna got THAT as my next tattoo.
September 14, 2010 at 2:42 pm
this, in my humble opinion is the best bit of fuckery since the cat-fascinator ransom note request on alchemy!
i am currently disassembling the sofa t.o see if i can find eight bucks in it
September 14, 2010 at 2:54 pm
HK, you are genius. Absolutely one hundred and ten percent snarky genius. I may, if I ever get a job and am once again solvent, have to get the words “I will never forgetsy” in a banner tattooed on me. Because this post made me laugh out loud for the first time in a week. And that deserves some commemoration. Thank you.
@Shade-if you get that tattoo please send me pictures because that sounds like it would be AWESOME!
September 14, 2010 at 3:11 pm
It was through Regretsy that I first heard about Goetse and Frog-latio! Thanks HK!
September 14, 2010 at 3:17 pm
so who will be our next victim *cough cough* i mean willing volunteer
September 14, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I think you’ve finally convinced me to get a Facebook account. I’ve got to get in on this fuckery.
Oh, and hi everyone, I’ve been lurking here forever and finally decided to get an account. I think it was the yarn porn that won me over.
September 14, 2010 at 3:25 pm
I will never Forgetsy!
I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT! FORGETSY NO MORE!
September 14, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I’m loving the giraffe-camel. Can scientists make one for me? I’d love to ride it around.
And can they make it glitter while they’re at it?
September 14, 2010 at 3:51 pm
wearing only sombreros and “Regretsy Thug” t-shirts
FIFY
September 14, 2010 at 4:02 pm
oooh hey. you and hubster think alike.
September 14, 2010 at 4:37 pm
This is glorious.
I wish I could run into someone on the street wearing this shirt- I would hug them on the spot
September 14, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Does anyone else think that “Jacob” looks like George W. ???
September 14, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Surprise ingredient: Awesomesauce!
September 14, 2010 at 11:16 pm
If Edith Piaf were around today, she’d buy the mug!
“…Non, je n’oublie rien!”
September 15, 2010 at 12:15 am
@18 “Non, je regrettesy rien!”
September 15, 2010 at 12:16 am
*ne regrettesy
September 15, 2010 at 1:28 am
Lee here, the splendour of the Axis of All Fuckery Final Piece is of great comfort in this dark hour. kudos Crowley.
September 15, 2010 at 5:08 am
Of course yesterday was the Day of Errands From Hell™ and I missed all the Fuckery dammit!
September 15, 2010 at 7:28 am
Okay, this insanity actually made me create an account…and now I’m tempted to build an Etsy shop just so I might be able to participate in Iron Etsy some day. Ack!
September 15, 2010 at 8:19 am
If you look at the recommendations in the zazzle “satire” section, there’s a lot of right wing craziness going on (“e.g. Bush: Do you miss me yet?” “I’m republican- cos we can’t all live on welfare”) I think you’ll get a whole heap of incidental sales if you start selling some sparkly eagle twin towers stuff.
September 15, 2010 at 8:35 am
Some frogs get kissed by princesses, others are not so lucky.
September 15, 2010 at 9:38 am
For the record, I did not have sexual relations with that frog.
September 15, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Here is an interesting challenge: how long can you look into the eyes of the drawing of that chimp without laughing?