Etsy Garage Sale
Hey there hoarders, it’s Etsy Garage Sale time! Let’s fire up the fuckerymobile and go for a little drive. Here are some sweet garage sale finds available on Etsy right now!
Six half empty bottles of old cologne, right off grandpa’s bureau at the rest home. Convo me for his lower plate.
I already have dead batteries from 1951 and 1953, so this is awesome.
Will you consider trading for a Sanford & Son Thermos?
What a deal! I was thinking about making cookies in August.
Shrek might have lost it! LOL!
Fuck you.
March 9, 2011 at 3:40 pm
it is amazing how close garage sale is to garbage. what is that…one letter?
March 9, 2011 at 3:51 pm
My mom and I used to go garage saling together years ago and I started calling crappy garage sales “add a B sales”. Add a B in the middle of garage and ya get garbage. It’s a fine line sometimes..heh.
March 9, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Shrek didn’t lose that – he barfed on it and left it in the woods.
March 10, 2011 at 11:49 am
Shrek didn’t lose that – someone on the National Missing Persons Database did. That’s a little creepy.
March 10, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Wonder if the seller lives in British Columbia?
…what, too soon?
March 9, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Suddenly I know how I can make some extra cash! I have tons of crap lying around!
March 9, 2011 at 4:03 pm
yeah me too!
March 9, 2011 at 7:41 pm
I even have crap with moss on it!
March 10, 2011 at 6:10 am
Makes me wanna take a scythe to the backyard jungle and see how many “finds” I can…find.
March 9, 2011 at 3:41 pm
I think, “Fuck you,” pretty much sums it up for all of these.
March 9, 2011 at 3:42 pm
I should clean out my closet and add to the fuckery.
March 9, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Don’t make me put my hagglin’ hat on!
March 9, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Is it festooned with flair?
March 9, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Or moss and dead batteries?
March 10, 2011 at 6:51 am
Hagglin’ hat, not a hagglin’ fascinator? Honestly I’m a little disappointed.
March 9, 2011 at 3:44 pm
You know, a bum knocked over their cart in my alley and the stuff has been out there for a few days marinating in filth. Maybe I should gather it up and start an Etsy store selling my fabulous vintage recycled finds!
March 9, 2011 at 3:48 pm
“Maybe I should gather it up and start an Etsy
storeshopsellingoffering myfabulousuniquevintagesteampunkrecycledupcycled findsshit!”Fixed that for you.
March 9, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Marketing degree?
March 9, 2011 at 3:45 pm
And to think I gave all my stuff to Good Will. I really don’t have by best interests in mind.
March 9, 2011 at 3:46 pm
That boot might have benn worth something if they’d only put it on barn wood instead of crappy painted bench wood, or whatever that is. Seriously, have they no standards?
March 9, 2011 at 4:14 pm
On barn wood, with a light bulb.
March 9, 2011 at 5:55 pm
And some watch parts hot-glued to it.
March 9, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Hmmm, I’ve got some old socks, an unexpired bag of peanuts and a couple half full bottles of lotion!
Bingo! New Etsy shop! I think I’ll call it “ShitFromMyCloset”
March 9, 2011 at 4:01 pm
old socks with an um back story sell real well on ebay…not seen it yet on etsy…you could go be the first
March 9, 2011 at 4:10 pm
uniquely crusty using an all natural substance
March 9, 2011 at 4:24 pm
ah you’ve seen them too!
March 10, 2011 at 6:54 am
I say cash in on popular trends and call it “S%#@ My Dad Sells”.
March 9, 2011 at 3:47 pm
All that cologne needs is Isiah Mustafa, and I’d be on it in a heartbeat.
March 9, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Stick an octopus on that there PS3 and you got yourself a deal.
March 9, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Then it will be a steampunk PS3!!!
March 9, 2011 at 3:48 pm
If only those chocolate chips were vintage.
March 9, 2011 at 7:43 pm
I had to actually read the bag to see that some of the chips were *supposed* to be green.
March 9, 2011 at 3:48 pm
One man’s trash is another man’s… well… trash.
March 9, 2011 at 3:50 pm
The mossy shoe was found “near an abandoned homesite” ? Wonder if it belonged to one of the victims of some rural degenerate cannibal serial killer ?
March 9, 2011 at 3:53 pm
This is why Etsy recommends adding a story to listings, and why they’d sell so much better.
March 9, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Ed Gein?
March 9, 2011 at 5:59 pm
That was a reply to Kaijuchris. Dang. Showing my age.
March 9, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Perhaps etsy should take on a new domain name.
Fleamarket.com or swapmeet.net might be more suitable.
March 9, 2011 at 3:56 pm
I read that as “swampmeet.net”
March 9, 2011 at 5:15 pm
It does make more sense. It conjures up a smell, too.
March 10, 2011 at 2:00 pm
A swampmeet is the only place that mossy boot might sell.
March 9, 2011 at 3:52 pm
This is the gallery of infinite nerve…as in, how much do these sellers have? Unlimited supplies.
March 9, 2011 at 3:52 pm
The sad thing is that some poor schlub will actually pay money for this crap! The “Shrek” boot is brazen fuckery.
March 9, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Are there any kid’s toys?
Cause if there aren’t any $0.25 kid’s toys I’m just driving my van to the next sale.
March 9, 2011 at 6:03 pm
LeeLoo, you’re in luck! I’ve got an entire box of kid’s toys from Happy Meals left over from when my sons were young. And they’re the the Vintage stuff, with little pieces that pose choking hazards, not the ‘safe’ crap they give out now.
You can have the whole box for $5. Shipping will depend on where you live (I’m in Iowa)
March 9, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Choking hazards?! You’re singing my tune, now!
March 10, 2011 at 3:13 am
Choking Hazards… Great idea for a band name, don’t you think ?
March 9, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Sign me up for that- if there’s anything left after lovely LeeLoo and Nico choose.
March 9, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Oh goddamnit! They took the playstation down!
March 9, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Yup. Gonna put some of my lint up for sale. I’ve also got a collection of fingernail clippings….
March 9, 2011 at 4:23 pm
My dryer makes the most luxurious lint. I should definitely be selling it as supplies.
March 9, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Call it “hand-felted” lint, and it’ll get upcrafted in no time at all!
March 9, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Someone beat you to it:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/25154955/aceo-patriotic-dryer-lint-art?ref=sr_list_4&ga_search_query=dryer+lint&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade
March 10, 2011 at 9:47 am
Fuck that! It’s only 95% dryer lint. Go 100& or go home!
March 10, 2011 at 9:48 am
grr 100%. PERCENT. maybe I should just spell it out from now on.
March 9, 2011 at 5:10 pm
dryer lint or bellybutton lint?
March 9, 2011 at 6:36 pm
It’s a quality vs. quantity thing, isn’t it?
March 9, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Model those clippings into a fetus-skeleton in a jar, and…WAH-LAH! you’ve got yourself some art!
March 9, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I’m sorry, not clippings…”human ivory.”
March 9, 2011 at 11:23 pm
You mean human ivory?
March 9, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Hey, I’ve got a loaded cat box. Comes with it’s own crap!
March 9, 2011 at 7:44 pm
I have three. We’ll be rich!
March 9, 2011 at 3:58 pm
I think i have some milk close to its expiration date…does that also qualify as vintage these days?
March 9, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Only if it’s chunky.
March 9, 2011 at 7:46 pm
What about if it’s fresh but tastes a little weird? I’ve got some with a touch of Play-Doh funk to it that’s destined for the drain.
March 10, 2011 at 9:36 am
Then it isnt vintage, it can only be a supply or possibly handmade
March 9, 2011 at 3:58 pm
I guess it’s too much to expect the sellers or buyers to understand that old cologne is going to be stale/rancid. Who hasn’t been to a ‘special occasion’(wedding, funeral, baptism, anniversary) and been bombarded by the remnants of colognes past?
March 9, 2011 at 4:02 pm
I would be so happy if I wandered upon a yard sale and found one of my dolls!
Thank you once again for including my work in your fuckery!
March 9, 2011 at 4:26 pm
I also would be so happy to find one of your dolls at a yard sale. They kick ass! And I’m to poor to buy one otherwise!
March 9, 2011 at 4:26 pm
too*
March 9, 2011 at 4:02 pm
That Etsy allows these to stay up screams, “Fuck you!” to all real artisans. Oh Etsy, how I loathe you so.
March 9, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Yeah this one is really taking the cake,…. er cookies
March 9, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Maybe they should just have a Kurio Korner portion of the site for these “upcycle” folks… I have a friend who actually sells nice crafted jewelery. She shouldn’t have to compete with the Junk Shoppe!
March 9, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Someone is selling fucking chocolate chips on Etsy? And here I was going to the grocery store. What the hell was I thinking?
Also, taking bids on the open container of Country Crock in my fridge. The toast crumbs add character and vintage flavor of meals past.
March 9, 2011 at 4:17 pm
$8.95 for picking up a damn shoe and taking a picture of it.
I spend HOURS making each of my items.
Unbelievable.
March 9, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Because its got coveted moss on it. Hey etsy if we all start growing moss on our items do we have a chance at featured seller or QYDJ?
March 9, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Moss is a lot like ice cubes, though … one of the ingredients is time.
March 9, 2011 at 7:50 pm
I’ve got loads of moss I’ll sell you. Between our oak tree that drops it everywhere and the neighbor’s neglected yard that grows nothing *but* moss, I live on Mossworld.
I can even throw in some lichen, to set your creations apart from all those other moss-covered items out there!
March 9, 2011 at 4:19 pm
photographed on WOOD too
March 9, 2011 at 4:27 pm
so I leave my hats out in the rain (now i have that cake in the rain song in my head DAMN)let the moss grow, nail it or better yet hot glue it to barn wood..WAA LAA instead etsy front page featured seller.
March 10, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Well, they allow craft supplies and they allow baked goods, so technically I think baking supplies are OK.
Or maybe I’m just defending the chips because they are chocolate mint flavored and I’d eat a dog turd if it were chocolate mint flavored.
March 9, 2011 at 4:11 pm
I think I have a box of that sort of crap sitting out of the nature strip waiting for the council to pick it up…hmmmmm ^_^
March 9, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Perky Snood! Love the name! You should use the pic too!
March 9, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Man this makes me angry
when in the fuck are they going to start jurying etsy?
March 9, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Why didn’t they tag those chips as Mint?
March 9, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Maybe they’re just in “Good Vintage Condition”?
March 9, 2011 at 5:10 pm
LeeLoo, I’m dying to see your shop, but marginally paranoid about posting my email. Suggestions?
March 9, 2011 at 5:14 pm
It leans towards cute.
This is my alter-ego. ; )
March 9, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Lee Loo, I’ll link to mine if you link to yours.
March 9, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Has anyone mailed this to Rob Kalin??
Seems like April Winchell is doing their job
March 9, 2011 at 5:04 pm
See comment #34 below…
March 9, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Buy handmade EXPIRED FOOD ARE YOU FSCKING KIDDING ME. Will it make my vomit whimsicle?
March 9, 2011 at 6:09 pm
If it does, be sure you do it on a barn board and let it dry. Then glue on a few watch parts and octopi and…Waala-Vintage puke!
March 9, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Excuse me-Vintage STEAMPUNK puke!
March 10, 2011 at 2:48 pm
STEAMPUKE!
March 9, 2011 at 4:22 pm
I am so close to calling this out on the forums
March 9, 2011 at 4:24 pm
The octopus says “Do it”.
March 9, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Oh, Lord. The Forums? Are you shitting me? Might as well tie yourself to the back of a truck and be drug through a landmine.
March 9, 2011 at 4:26 pm
The rest of the nasty moss-boot description is just as priceless as what HK posted (or, really, the boot itself):
“This boot or shoe has sole and is great being green. Perfect for your terrarium, patio, garden or any other place you can think of this to reside around your home. Makes a great shoe planter and you can even add some additional succelents and it can only get better with age. Just water on occasion to keep the moss alive. Have fun amazing your friends with other stories about Shrek’s green shoe!
I will pack this with care, ship inside a plastic bag that will be heavily misted with water to endure the trip.”
Can’t wait to get this plastic bag full of stanky moss-boot!
No, really, fuck you.
March 9, 2011 at 4:29 pm
My bad… fuck me.
That boot has 10 hearts, including (wait for it) Rokali, Etsy’s founder and CEO.
Why yes, fuck me very much.
March 9, 2011 at 4:58 pm
On the up-side, Rokali’s favorites may be the new Etsy Chicken!
March 9, 2011 at 5:00 pm
I just saw that! Shocking
March 9, 2011 at 5:09 pm
No, really…FUCK YOU, ETSY.
March 9, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Dang, and to think I already sold Angelina Jolie’s used kleenex tissues and hair clippings on Ebay already.
March 9, 2011 at 4:31 pm
I have a feeling that the PS3 listing is my boyfriend…
March 9, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Or is it the vintage boot of a man?
Is it the boot of a vintage man?
I can’t decide!
March 9, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Shrek lost the boot??? More like your grandpa right before you stole his “vintage” cologne collection! Where’s the old Avon cologne bottle shaped like a pheasant??? What-the-fuck-ever…
March 9, 2011 at 4:35 pm
But I thought you were only allowed to sell vintage and handmade items? Did etsy change its rules, or are these just sneaking by?
March 9, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Etsy has ceased to give a damn.
March 10, 2011 at 9:48 am
They get money from listings, regardless of whether the shit sells or meets their TOS.
So, no.
March 9, 2011 at 4:44 pm
The chocolate chips at least can be considered as “supplies”. That’s something.
March 9, 2011 at 4:51 pm
take an old shoe.
throw it into the woods.
wait 15 years.
???
profit
granted i want the boot because i’m weird and live in a fucking desert. (give me something green goddamnit.)
March 10, 2011 at 11:46 am
It turns out that in most “profit” scenarios,
????? = “Sell that shit on Etsy!”
March 9, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I can’t believe that shoe got 10 hearts!!
March 9, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Well, if you can’t believe that, maybe you’ll believe that this shopping basket from a Ben Franklin craft store has 15 hearts
March 9, 2011 at 6:46 pm
You wonder why you get up in the morning sometimes, don’t you?
March 9, 2011 at 4:53 pm
makes me want to stick a vintage boot up someones ass
March 9, 2011 at 4:56 pm
* You can’t sell a thousand items unless you list a thousand items
* You will magically start selling more after you have over 200 items in your shop
* More items means more exposure in google
* You can’t sell it until you list it!
* You don’t look like you’re serious about being a seller unless you have a full shop.
All pieces of actual business advice given over and over in the forums. I see some sellers took said advice VERY literally and didn’t stop to think that perhaps the hundreds of items they list should actually be something a rational human would want to buy.
March 9, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I’d feel less dirty selling ebooks about how the numerology of your phone number can affect your job (I actually got 20 bucks to write that for someone on eLance).
March 9, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Ah, eLance, where they ask for 40 hours of work for $40. It’s like Alchemy with writing, and without the buttplugs. (I hope. Don’t tell me if I’m wrong about that last part.)
March 10, 2011 at 1:24 pm
eLance – home of the “I need someone to list 700 ads on craigslist” for $2.50
(shudders)
March 9, 2011 at 5:24 pm
There should be better advice:
Having 20 fine, HANDCRAFTED products with reasonably good photographs makes you look like a serious artisan, and people who will appreciate and pay for your work will be more likely to buy from you and come back for more.
I would LOVE to start a jurried version of Etsy. There would be things like, oh, enough staff to actually respond to complaints of resellers, credits for allowing the site to advertise on your blog/traffic to the site you generate yourself, a principle or two to stand on…
March 9, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Yes, Jury Etsy. And leave the vintage stuff to Ebay. Some of it is nice, but this garbage sale shows what a lot of people are selling instead.
March 9, 2011 at 6:43 pm
People who love, know and sell genuine vintage aren’t responsible for this crap. Those people would list their junk either way.
March 9, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Can we please call it JursyShore.com?
March 9, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Damn. And I only have 13 items in my shop. I guess I shouldn’t worry so much about what the hell I’m selling.
March 9, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Yes! So annoying! I’ve seen this same business advice from ppl who made “1000 sales in 2 months!!” or something of the ruther and they feel the need to brag about it-if you look closely, most of the people backing it are selling jewelry supplies, which makes it super easy to list a thousand items when you’re only ordering it through a catalogue. Or if you’re digging it desperately out of the trash like these dudes.
March 9, 2011 at 6:25 pm
No kidding! Guess what, a thousand items that cost a buck or two each and feed the rabid crafters aren’t that hard to sell.
I have well over a thousand sales, in the jewelry category, AND not a single item in my shop is under $25.00. *That* I will be proud of, thankyouverymuch. Oh, and nothing made out of plastic or octopusses, human hair or sperm, garbage or roadkill, or even vulvas.
March 9, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Imagine the sales increase if you threw a few octopusses (octopi?) and vulvas (vulvi?) in there. I mean, really, how often do you actually use your self respect anyway?
March 9, 2011 at 6:48 pm
You are CLEARLY overdue to make some vulva jewelry. Perhaps an octopus with a vagina, as a pendant?
March 9, 2011 at 7:52 pm
An octopus with a vagina on each tentacle! Now THAT’S art!
March 10, 2011 at 9:51 am
Etsy really is a pyramid scheme. Endless listings (and relistings) = money in Etsy’s pocket. Endless promotions = more rubes to list things and promote Etsy.
March 9, 2011 at 5:13 pm
*Some* might still have cologne in them.
March 9, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Stinky, dead cologne.
March 10, 2011 at 3:17 am
No : vintage.
Years only make it tastier.
March 9, 2011 at 5:15 pm
I had a real, honest-to-god garage sale a few months ago. I had to argue with people to take 5 kids belts in pretty good condition for a buck – they wanted to give me a quarter.
I had to fight to get 5 bucks for a solid metal filing cabinet…
And I couldn’t GIVE away perfectly good sneakers that had been worn by a teenager for a few months and didn’t stink at all.
March 9, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Where was Etsy in 2005? We could have bought lots of black mold encrusted wall fragments from Katrina, and all those people could have rebuilt without FEMA money.
March 9, 2011 at 5:21 pm
I could really use some lawn ornamentation… do they have any chicken bitches? I’m willing to pay as much as $0.75.
March 9, 2011 at 5:32 pm
What? No Hai Karate in the cologne lot? No Deal!!
March 9, 2011 at 8:22 pm
No Jade East, either.
March 9, 2011 at 9:23 pm
I’m more surprised at the lack of a white Old Spice bottle.
March 9, 2011 at 5:32 pm
I bet someone got the gross mint chips by accident when they meant to grab pure chocolate. I hate that when the packages look almost the same.
The boot is great. Its like a vintage chia pet. I wonder if by “abandoned homesite” they meant there were squatters that left discarded footwear.
March 9, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Thanks for the awesome garage ‘collage’, Helen! I was just thinking it had been a while since you had assembled a crapload of whimsicle fuckery for our amusement. Sweet!
March 9, 2011 at 5:46 pm
thank you so much for making fun of those dippy mustache sticks!
March 9, 2011 at 5:51 pm
I must be a jaded old crusty old bitch, because all this time I’ve been reading Regretsy, I’ve never once thought, “Surely not, no. This is not plausible, nobody is ballsy enough to try to sell this to poor, misguided idiots with credit cards.” Until now. A funky old shoe and a couple of bags of chocolate chips finally helped me lose faith in everything.
At last. It is so freeing, this feeling.
March 9, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Life will be so much easier for you now.
March 9, 2011 at 6:23 pm
The lower I keep my expectations of humanity, the happier I usually am. Are there any good prices on sulky dispositions and bad impressions on etsy?
March 9, 2011 at 6:49 pm
If there were, we’d ALL be rich!
March 10, 2011 at 6:25 am
There were until I bought them all.
March 9, 2011 at 6:51 pm
after reading this blog for about 6 months, i made an account just now, to say basically the exact same thing. this post was some sort of breaking point.
chocolate chips! oh, i just can’t wrap my mind around it. the 500 plastic flower rings, i could stretch the limits of my mind, and think “well, ok. i guess every single one of these people didn’t think to do a quick search, and find out if anyone else was selling cheap chrysanthemum rings. they thought they’d be the first, and make a living off of them. ok. ok.” i could deal with it. i could deal with the barn wood and the octopus and the everything else.
but this post…NO. i must make myself laugh, or i shall cry.
March 9, 2011 at 6:12 pm
I just saw this boot was first favorited in September of last year! It’s been for sale for 6 months! Eeeuw I bet it smells.
March 9, 2011 at 7:38 pm
I guess Rokali loves it but doesn’t love-love it.
March 10, 2011 at 9:53 am
‘course he loves it. The repeated listing fees bring in much more money than the sale percentage.
March 12, 2011 at 1:43 am
He must have hearts on every item on the site then… I imagine that takes time away from any kind of quality control.
March 9, 2011 at 6:13 pm
shrek or even a troll!!?!1/?? it’s the best thing ever!
March 9, 2011 at 6:32 pm
How silly of me – all these years I’ve been throwing garbage away, when I could have been making money off it. Now I feel like a chump for throwing away my cat’s old litter box when I bought him a new one. I could have glued an octopus & some watch parts on it & sold it on Etsy, tagged “vintage”, “steampunk”, & “unique”
March 9, 2011 at 7:11 pm
That boot that was found “in the woods near an abandoned homesite” isn’t creepy at all. It’s inspirational!
…and the comments. I howled with laughter for at least 15 minutes. Brazen fuckery, indeed. Thanks, Regretsy!
And KnitwitKnerd, thank you, too, now I know what to be for Halloween this year. (steampunk hobo)
March 9, 2011 at 8:05 pm
I am ashamed to say this, but I…I like the boot. I live in the desert, where there is not moss. I don’t think I’ve ever even seen moss up close. Moss can do that? Just grow all over stuff like a boss? That’s kind of cool. Not cool enough to pay nine dollars + shipping for, but still.
March 9, 2011 at 8:29 pm
It’ll grow on *anything* if you leave it sitting out long enough.
March 9, 2011 at 10:31 pm
did you see that Stephen King movie where his home is overtaken my moss?
March 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Meteor shit!
March 10, 2011 at 3:19 am
If you get this and put it outside, in your desert, it will get dry. But… you know what ? When the moss is dry, just water it, and it will revive ! Crazy but true ! Isn’t nature amazing ?
March 10, 2011 at 4:38 am
if you mist it enough it can keep for years
March 10, 2011 at 12:07 pm
I live in Oregon, where if you stand still outside too long you’ll start growing moss. Send me your address & I’ll send you an organic vintage upcycled humanely collected (translation: blew down in the last windstorm) mossy stick for free! No foot odor included.
March 9, 2011 at 8:15 pm
stop the presses! those chocolate chips are LIMITED EDITION. this changes everything!! i’m going to start selling mcribs on etsy.
March 9, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Etsy should start selling gift baskets compiled of all this shit. It’d be like an etsy treasury, only more convenient.
March 9, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Am I the only one who doesn’t know what the shit OOAK means? Because I don’t
March 9, 2011 at 9:53 pm
One Of A Kind.
Or what you say when you unwrap the ring.
March 9, 2011 at 8:55 pm
I need to start looking for shit in the woods and telling people it formerly belonged to Shrek.
March 9, 2011 at 9:42 pm
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March 9, 2011 at 10:34 pm
March 10, 2011 at 3:22 am
OMFG!! I am SOOO glad I closed my shop after christmas. I was embarrassed to have a shop there. Things are just so out of hand with this kind of bullshit. So I joined a STRICTLY juried site – and my sales have tripled.
March 10, 2011 at 4:36 am
which site is that
March 10, 2011 at 5:46 am
Yea, which site? Tell us!
March 10, 2011 at 6:07 am
Yeah, which site?
March 10, 2011 at 6:30 am
I’ll add to the begging. If you tell us, I’ll send you my first polymer clay octopus.
March 10, 2011 at 6:34 am
Adding my request to please share the juried site’s name!
March 10, 2011 at 7:19 am
It’s a wholesale site – wholesalecrafts.com. For my business model, it works much better to create “in bulk”. But the jury process is VERY strict. I’m a pretty good writer, but it took me 3 days to complete the app. But just as with the art shows/festivals that I do, we only seem to well in a juried situation.
March 10, 2011 at 4:16 am
Makes you wonder WTF 150+ overpaid people are doing at Etsycorp, certainly not shopping on Etsy. Pray tell what are they doing all day? Waiting for the free lunch delivery? Bouncing in the Plushie Phone Room? Preparing all that free yarn swag they get to start Crochet Covers for Air Conditioners?
March 10, 2011 at 4:35 am
Clearly many people here want to see Etsy become a juried site
what shits me is that i NEVER see this brought up in the forums. Its complete taboo.
Imagine how cool etsy would be if it was juried. REAL artists would get seen.
March 10, 2011 at 5:47 am
I’ve never been on the etsy forums, but from the sound of it they’re all angry defensive nutcases. Why does that happen?
March 10, 2011 at 9:56 am
The fish rots from the head down.
March 10, 2011 at 9:57 am
The
fishsteampunk mustache octopus rots from the head down.March 10, 2011 at 6:53 pm
People bitch about it in the forums all the time. I actually think that is why Etsy changed the forum layout. They just couldn’t shut down all the threads. And if you mention another sight, like Regretsy or other blogs that call out re-sellers, they close the thread and sometimes shut down the seller that says anything.
March 10, 2011 at 6:13 am
How in the world is someone supposed to use that shoe as a planter? It’s already teeming with life, and if you tried to “open” the shoe to put some potting mix it’d just fall apart.
It’s an interesting found object, but no thanks…
March 10, 2011 at 8:23 am
Shrek’s BOOT? Are you f-in’ kidding me? Heck, maybe I can get a group together to go woods-hunting with me tonight to see what I can find to sell as “vintage” on etsy!
March 10, 2011 at 8:48 am
Count me in! I love to pick random shit up off the ground!
March 10, 2011 at 8:47 am
I just KNOW that those “vintage” batteries are going to burst into flames, any second now. Who keeps something that dangerous around, let alone sell it on the intarwebz?
Sorry, I have a phobia of exploding batteries. I’m even afraid when I throw out dead ones, they’ll spontaneously combust in the trash and set the house on fire…
March 10, 2011 at 9:18 am
Gotta admit, $200 for a PS3 doesn’t sound all that bad.
March 10, 2011 at 9:20 am
I wonder what these peoples’ lives are like?
March 10, 2011 at 9:28 am
The original owner of that boot may be unknown, but we can definitely say it wasn’t Mick Jagger.
March 10, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Ha! I get it!
March 10, 2011 at 9:40 am
Actually, I was selling the body of a dead guy with one shoe that I found in the woods, but now I’m just considering completing the set.
March 10, 2011 at 10:45 am
:/ pristine vintage batteries. damn … i really needed that but if they had a slice of jesus on toast like ebay did, id have them combine shipping… but darn no .. *sigh* i’ll just have to pass
March 10, 2011 at 11:41 am
Seriously, these people have to be kidding, right?
March 10, 2011 at 2:16 pm
The batteries just remind me of my old boss, who had a vintage can of motor oil for sale in her (actual, brick-and-mortar) store.
Every one of magark’s listings looks like it came from an archaeological dig. I wonder if s/he’s one of those privy diggers.
March 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm
I’ve bought Lala lamps from garage sales that didn’t even WORK right that were better than this shit – but if moldy shit sells, I’m gonna put my felted “bacon” tampon out and let it get nice and moldy so I can charge $10 for it.
March 10, 2011 at 7:38 pm
I seriously am going to leave Etsy – it’s painful that they’re turning into freakin’ Ebay.
What a load of tosh.
March 11, 2011 at 7:43 pm
The Back in Black album itself is vintage – it was released 30 year ago. That particular CD copy – not so much. Fun fact: Back in Black is the 2nd best-selling album of all time, best-selling hard rock/heavy metal album and best-selling album by a band or group. It’s 22 times multi-platinum in the US and has sold 49 million copies worldwide. That being said, why does someone need to resell it on Etsy for $7?! Who would want to get rid of AC/DC’s greatest album and perhaps the greatest hard rock album of all time? And who would buy this? Everyone and their mother already has Back in Black. I have 5 copies myself (not on purpose).
A 40G PS3 for $200 is a good deal. Those were the last models that were 100% backwards compatible w/PlayStation 1 and 2 games. Is it sad when I see term-violating resellers on Etsy and go “I’d buy that?”