That linty monstrosity looks awfully itchy. I bet they have long-haired animals in their house to get THAT out of the lint trap…and a nice stick from the backyard!
My parents’ cat puked out something that looked like that wrist cuff once. If I throw a giant craft store button on it, does that mean I can be an enterprising Etsy crafter as well?
By the way, we totally sell that big triangular button at work. Goddamn craft stores…
Clearly the difference in price between the wire trays is the vintage one have BLACK rubber feet. This new ones only have clear ones. Black is so retro! That totally justifies the $14 price difefrence!
clearly I should just use a sharpie to color the clear feet black and say I upcycled it to create a cool retro style!
and I’d say it appears to be photographed on barn wood, but it looks more like barn wood veneer. and that’s just wrong!
The vintage ticket rolls look to be photographed on a faux barnwood surface, as well. Are we detecting a nascent Etsy trend here? Real barnwood just became too damn predictable, so we had to find some vinyl samples.
The only thing that ring has in common with Kate’s is that it has diamonds and a sapphire. It doesn’t look a damn thing like it! And who would spend that much money on an engagement ring online?
Anyone else think the wrist wrap looks like a dead possum from Coraline?
I’m thinking a hipster passed out from too much PBR and his mom, tired of him living in the basement without a job, sneaked down and cut off his dreads. Sad hipster woke up and decided his sad hipster girlfriend could make a bracelet out of them and sell it on Etsy so they could afford more PBR. Yay!!
The shop selling the ring- is she a reseller? It looks as if some of her things may be handmade and she does say she has a brick and mortar store, but that ring (as Bronc showed) and some others definitely look mass-produced. Is it common for Etsy sellers to throw some mass-produced things in with their own stuff while going on and on about how proud they are to create original pieces? And WHY, for Fuck’s sake, would they DO that??
Well, to be a REseller she’d actually have to buy the ring first. Or she could wait until someone purchases it for her ridicuprice and then buy it with the customer’s money…
And I don’t know how common it is for sellers to mix in mass-produced. The components of my jewelry are mass produced, so what you are buying from me is my design.
It MIGHT actually be handmade, but be based on an available pattern. I’m a book dealer and handle a lot of art catalogs. Nine times out of ten, when someone buys a catalog of jewelry sold at auction (Christies, Soothebys, etc), it ships to the address for a jeweler. They buy them specifically to use as reference. Obviously the catalog don’t show them exactly how those pieces were done underneath, but generally have much higher quality photos of pieces by masters than they’d find elsewhere. and pieces that are in private collections now so DON’T appear in books of ‘works by X’.
so it could be a resold item, or it may just be two outfits doing the same knockoff of a design by a third party.
I’m going to be rich! I just replaced my dryer and cleaned out the pipes. I can make hundreds of those cuffs! One will be super special though made with the sock I found as well.
THANK YOU! I reported AMradio’s tickets a while back, and then again when Etsy had them as their featured seller!! You can buy those rolls at any party supply store, a ton of websites, and I think I’ve even seen them at Wal-mart, for god’s sake.
Oh, and AMradio also has the ubiquitous blue Ball canning jars. I may be wrong, but I think you can also buy those just about anywhere canning supplies are sold. But I don’t know…these may be legitimately old. Very hard to say for sure. Still, questionable enough to wonder how Etsy really picks their featured sellers.
Actually, the blue ones aren’t found where you find supplies. Also, they’re not called “Perfect Mason” anymore. From this site: http://balljars.net/ball_jar_progression.htm it looks like the ones she has are pre-1933. I know, I was shocked – someone not LYING???
I’ve seen them at dollar stores. Though a roll of tickets can have a childhood appeal, the first thing I’d think of if i saw that on display in someone’s house would be about selling tickets for a very adult ride.
And the sellers response? “Muncie Novelty Company has been in business since 1937, and began production of the roll tickets in late 1960s. these particular ones listed in the shop were purchased at an antique store in Springfield, Ohio. it’s true someone could purchase a new roll instead of these. but there is some nostalgia for others in them being vintage.”
…So in other words the seller probably got scammed herself, buying them “vintage” somewhere for $10 and is now trying to resale them. IF they weren’t bought new in the first place and were dirtied up to look “vintage”
There really needs to be a bullshit filter on Etsy!!
“vintage mop bucket with wood red bail handle. i love to see these filled with plants, spools of twine {or} placed near the door to hold your hat and mittens in the winter.”
i also love to see these at the landfill. where others see trash {or} junk i see lovely pieces ready to be photographed near driftwood, given captions from the Creamy Auto-Description Generator 5000 {and} sold for enough money to buy a new vial of the fairy dust i sprinkle over pieces of garbage to transform them into rustic vintage treasures. and over my tax returns when i try to convince the irs that dirty old matchboxes are a legitimate business expense.
I think this might actually win the award for most BS waste of money in her shop: http://etsy.me/eY1LDd
$56 for a battered wire basket?! This woman has nearly a thousand sales, and I’m sure the most handmade part of what she does is whacking things with a hammer a few times before taking a pic of it on barn wood.
“The most handmade part of what she does is whacking things with a hammer a few times”
That reminds me of an episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” where she took up a new hobby–antiquing furniture. It required her to buy a table and then whack it with a heavy chain. She kept giggling as she did it.
She was ahead of her time. Today, she’d be on Etsy. And still giggling when someone bought her items. “Ohhh, Mis-ter Graaant! Another rube bought my ‘antique’ table. Ka-ching!”
You know i came home to cat barf that looked just like that except it had a few feathers and animal bits in it! maybe I too can be an Etsy extraordinaire if i force fed my cats buttons and wrap it all up and put it on a necklace. because a necklace would be different.
That wrist thing reminded me of the enormous roadkill I almost stepped on the other day. I thought it was a big groundhog or something but as I glanced back, its tail looked suspiciously rat-like. I decided not to look again.
Regretsy math is always so precise. Just like real math, or so I’m told.
Will concede that the cuff?? is indeed “unique.” Might even give seller “organic” (hairballs are organic, right?), but would someone please tell me WTF is “Epict teamb?” Her name? A foreign language for “I have no taste” or simply her lithium wearing off completely?
I kind of love the last one. There’s something beautiful and desperate in a store pic where even the (model? creator?)is just holding the thing, looking down at it as if to say, “I don’t know WTF it is either. Just buy it, right?”
I must be psychic… When I saw that bracelet thing the first thing I said to myself was “That looks like someone scraped it out of their dryer lint trap.” That was before I scrolled down far enough to see the last pic.
April 22, 2011 at 9:33 am
YAY for compare and save!!!
That linty monstrosity looks awfully itchy. I bet they have long-haired animals in their house to get THAT out of the lint trap…and a nice stick from the backyard!
April 22, 2011 at 2:14 pm
You have to figure it can’t be a good sign when they’re not even wearing the item in the pictures. If *they’re* not willing to wear it…
April 22, 2011 at 9:34 am
That “art wrist cuff” should carry the disclaimer: “May get you thrown out of establishments where food is served”.
April 22, 2011 at 9:35 am
My parents’ cat puked out something that looked like that wrist cuff once. If I throw a giant craft store button on it, does that mean I can be an enterprising Etsy crafter as well?
By the way, we totally sell that big triangular button at work. Goddamn craft stores…
April 22, 2011 at 9:36 am
The dryer lint thing can be use multi purpose. The button, however is for decorative purpose.
April 22, 2011 at 9:50 am
Not only is it a fashionable accessory, it’s a wonderful imitation of a dead rat!
April 22, 2011 at 10:44 am
At least the button doesn’t go through and real rat eye hole.
April 22, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Funny, my mom’s response to this post was, “Ugh! Why would you wear something like that? You might as well carry around a dead rat!
April 22, 2011 at 9:36 am
Twenty bucks that ring was actually the cheap knockoff you can get for $20 or whatever off that TV ad.
April 22, 2011 at 9:43 am
I think they sell one on inspiredsilver.com too
April 22, 2011 at 9:42 am
April 22, 2011 at 9:46 am
I’m falling out of my chair laughing my ass off.
April 22, 2011 at 9:49 am
The cuff looks like something someone picked off the barn floor on shearing day be a noob shearer.
April 22, 2011 at 9:50 am
Hrm, that was supposed to be it’s own comment. This was supposed to say:
Brilliant combo of Compare and Save and Regretsy math!
April 22, 2011 at 10:12 am
I’m so glad I was high for this XD
April 22, 2011 at 11:29 am
damn that made me spit out my coffee on my keyboard!
April 22, 2011 at 9:45 am
Clearly the difference in price between the wire trays is the vintage one have BLACK rubber feet. This new ones only have clear ones. Black is so retro! That totally justifies the $14 price difefrence!
clearly I should just use a sharpie to color the clear feet black and say I upcycled it to create a cool retro style!
and I’d say it appears to be photographed on barn wood, but it looks more like barn wood veneer. and that’s just wrong!
April 22, 2011 at 4:09 pm
The vintage ticket rolls look to be photographed on a faux barnwood surface, as well. Are we detecting a nascent Etsy trend here? Real barnwood just became too damn predictable, so we had to find some vinyl samples.
April 22, 2011 at 9:50 am
Do you ever get the feeling there’s a basket on your basket?
Or some fake bling on your ring?
Or some felt on your belt?
Sometimes I get the feeling there’s some JERKS ON THE NET!
April 22, 2011 at 9:50 am
Sorry about the rhyming tirade
about crap they haven’t made.
April 22, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Shoot…the seller doesn’t even pretend it’s vintage…HTH is this “handmade” and not just “used crap?”
April 22, 2011 at 2:20 pm
“Wocket in my Pocket” is my favorite Dr. Seuss books!
April 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm
I give quadruple thumbs up to you.
April 22, 2011 at 9:54 am
I have so many graduation gifts to buy in May.
Thanks, Regretsy!
April 22, 2011 at 10:03 am
The only thing that ring has in common with Kate’s is that it has diamonds and a sapphire. It doesn’t look a damn thing like it! And who would spend that much money on an engagement ring online?
Anyone else think the wrist wrap looks like a dead possum from Coraline?
April 22, 2011 at 10:48 am
I’m thinking a hipster passed out from too much PBR and his mom, tired of him living in the basement without a job, sneaked down and cut off his dreads. Sad hipster woke up and decided his sad hipster girlfriend could make a bracelet out of them and sell it on Etsy so they could afford more PBR. Yay!!
April 22, 2011 at 10:06 am
Vintage new? And is ‘from Indiana’ supposed to be a selling point? Is Indiana known for their admission tickets?
April 22, 2011 at 10:27 am
No, but Indiana is known for it’s carneys.
April 22, 2011 at 10:27 am
I use it as *my* selling point. So far I can say it hasn’t gotten me anywhere.
April 22, 2011 at 11:49 am
Maybe Ohio would be better.
April 22, 2011 at 11:53 am
Maybe I just need to charge admission.
April 22, 2011 at 1:30 pm
I’m from Indiana, and I can tell you, NO, it isn’t. That’s why there are so many left one the roll: no one is buying them! No one wants IN Indiana.
And it’s also a point I make sure to leave out of my listings!
April 22, 2011 at 10:09 am
I have a relative that I don’t like very much, that bracelet would be perfect!
April 22, 2011 at 10:10 am
I’ve been reading this site too long. As soon as I saw that gawdawful mess of fuzz, I knew the savings would come from dryer lint.
April 22, 2011 at 10:11 am
At least the wrist cuff is handmade. Butt-ugly, but handmade.
April 22, 2011 at 10:14 am
And it’s sold! Which one of you bought it?
Good thing the otter pictures show it being worn – I would have been at a loss.
April 22, 2011 at 10:24 am
Maybe Kathy Lee showing some Etsy love?
April 22, 2011 at 10:50 am
I had to go to the seller’s site so I could figure it out.
April 22, 2011 at 11:53 am
I really meant to say “other.”
“Otter” is pretty funny though.
April 22, 2011 at 1:29 pm
You can never go wrong with “otter pictures,” though.
April 22, 2011 at 1:31 pm
I was imagining otters wearing it like a fur stole.
April 22, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Poor, furless, cold otters. They need a nice warm fur coat thing.
April 22, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Personally, I prefer the alien plague cuff:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/71870458/illusion-textile-cuff-bracelet-turquoise
April 22, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Yeah, see? That seller needs to step away from the felting process.
April 22, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Agreed! and it’s too bad, cuz her crochet lace scarves are pretty. I’d buy one if I ever had occasion to wear a scarf in SC.
April 23, 2011 at 10:38 am
As usual, the cuff artist has some really nice crocheted scarves, but her felted stuff is ugly, ugly, ugly.
April 22, 2011 at 10:11 am
That’s a pretty awful looking sapphire. For $9300 I want a bright velvety stone, not dyed gravel.
April 22, 2011 at 11:10 am
For $9300 I want a cute fiancée to go with the ring.
April 22, 2011 at 12:51 pm
My whole wedding didn’t cost $9300!
April 22, 2011 at 10:22 am
I love Compare and Save. It would make a great game show–guess the savings and win the prize! Then throw the prize away.
April 22, 2011 at 12:34 pm
The Price Is Right Regretsy-style? Instead of a new car and a trip to Hawaii you win a dead mouse and a pair of skants?
April 22, 2011 at 12:54 pm
ChYmIeRa Butthurt, COME ON DOWN!
April 22, 2011 at 10:23 am
Wire baskets are $11.99 for two at Staples. Who orders office supplies off Etsy? Because it’s what, more expensive, and less convenient?
April 22, 2011 at 10:35 am
What’s the difference between office supplies and STUDIO supplies? $14.02
April 22, 2011 at 10:39 am
Fetaby, I love the way you call out artsy bullshit.
April 22, 2011 at 11:50 am
But these are CLEARLY handmade!
April 22, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Hey, someone had to run the machine that made them. They pressed the start button by hand.
April 22, 2011 at 10:37 am
The shop selling the ring- is she a reseller? It looks as if some of her things may be handmade and she does say she has a brick and mortar store, but that ring (as Bronc showed) and some others definitely look mass-produced. Is it common for Etsy sellers to throw some mass-produced things in with their own stuff while going on and on about how proud they are to create original pieces? And WHY, for Fuck’s sake, would they DO that??
April 22, 2011 at 10:38 am
My avatar is doing a 19th century version of facepalm.
April 22, 2011 at 3:00 pm
I approve.
April 22, 2011 at 10:50 am
Well, to be a REseller she’d actually have to buy the ring first. Or she could wait until someone purchases it for her ridicuprice and then buy it with the customer’s money…
And I don’t know how common it is for sellers to mix in mass-produced. The components of my jewelry are mass produced, so what you are buying from me is my design.
April 22, 2011 at 11:02 am
It MIGHT actually be handmade, but be based on an available pattern. I’m a book dealer and handle a lot of art catalogs. Nine times out of ten, when someone buys a catalog of jewelry sold at auction (Christies, Soothebys, etc), it ships to the address for a jeweler. They buy them specifically to use as reference. Obviously the catalog don’t show them exactly how those pieces were done underneath, but generally have much higher quality photos of pieces by masters than they’d find elsewhere. and pieces that are in private collections now so DON’T appear in books of ‘works by X’.
so it could be a resold item, or it may just be two outfits doing the same knockoff of a design by a third party.
April 22, 2011 at 10:40 am
a roadkill skirt would really make those wristbands “pop”.
April 22, 2011 at 11:05 am
Throw in the Doily blouse, and we have a *winner*
April 22, 2011 at 10:46 am
Compare and save always blows my mind. I can’t imagine the google skills necessary to find some of these things, like that ring!
April 22, 2011 at 10:48 am
Well, you COULD spend 6 grand on an eternity ring that looks like they royal engagement ring oooooooor
you could get one of THESE!
https://www.heirloomring.com/Default.aspx?mid=1173663
April 22, 2011 at 11:18 am
“The ring betrothed to Kate Middleton . . .”
Well, silly me–I thought she was betrothed to Prince William, not a piece of jewelry!
Pblwltt!
April 22, 2011 at 3:04 pm
I’m so glad it’s a faux CEYLON sapphire. I had these faux De Beers mine sapphires, don’t you?
April 22, 2011 at 6:00 pm
I read “Ceylon” as “Cylon.”
April 22, 2011 at 11:13 am
The description on that ticket roll is killing me…
VINTAGE NEW
Say what?
April 22, 2011 at 11:38 am
Yeah, that one got me too! Should’ve been vintage unused. Or really not listed at all because it’s bullshit.
April 22, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Me too… perhaps it’s just on the cusp of being vintage, and they didn’t want to be called out.
April 22, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Jumbo Shrimp.
April 22, 2011 at 11:23 am
I’m going to be rich! I just replaced my dryer and cleaned out the pipes. I can make hundreds of those cuffs! One will be super special though made with the sock I found as well.
April 22, 2011 at 11:24 am
The cuff looks like a baby rabbit my cat dropped off on my porch one morning… or what was left of the baby rabbit.
April 22, 2011 at 11:32 am
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April 22, 2011 at 11:39 am
I wanna know who bought that sucker? It has to be someone here, it looks like a fucking goat cuff!
April 22, 2011 at 11:52 am
Yummy num num’s mom needed a new merkin…
April 22, 2011 at 11:44 am
THANK YOU! I reported AMradio’s tickets a while back, and then again when Etsy had them as their featured seller!! You can buy those rolls at any party supply store, a ton of websites, and I think I’ve even seen them at Wal-mart, for god’s sake.
April 22, 2011 at 11:53 am
Oh, and AMradio also has the ubiquitous blue Ball canning jars. I may be wrong, but I think you can also buy those just about anywhere canning supplies are sold. But I don’t know…these may be legitimately old. Very hard to say for sure. Still, questionable enough to wonder how Etsy really picks their featured sellers.
April 22, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Actually, the blue ones aren’t found where you find supplies. Also, they’re not called “Perfect Mason” anymore. From this site: http://balljars.net/ball_jar_progression.htm it looks like the ones she has are pre-1933. I know, I was shocked – someone not LYING???
April 22, 2011 at 12:26 pm
yeah but she has it on BARNWOOD – that must make it vintage.
*EYEROLL*
April 22, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Our PTO has a TON leftover – I should sell them….
April 22, 2011 at 3:56 pm
And ours are multicolored, at that.
(I wish there were an edit feature)
April 22, 2011 at 5:17 pm
I’ve seen them at dollar stores. Though a roll of tickets can have a childhood appeal, the first thing I’d think of if i saw that on display in someone’s house would be about selling tickets for a very adult ride.
April 22, 2011 at 12:05 pm
“perfect for display in a media room”
Why would you display a roll of raffle tickets? I…I don’t understand.
April 22, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Yay the tickets I submitted made it! It really ticked me off when I saw them on the front page, what a damn scam.
I actually was irked enough that I messaged the seller when I saw them that I sent her this link: http://www.indianaticket.com/default.asp?Product=Classic+1×2+Admit+One+Single+Roll&prodID=804&catID=352
And the sellers response? “Muncie Novelty Company has been in business since 1937, and began production of the roll tickets in late 1960s. these particular ones listed in the shop were purchased at an antique store in Springfield, Ohio. it’s true someone could purchase a new roll instead of these. but there is some nostalgia for others in them being vintage.”
…So in other words the seller probably got scammed herself, buying them “vintage” somewhere for $10 and is now trying to resale them. IF they weren’t bought new in the first place and were dirtied up to look “vintage”
There really needs to be a bullshit filter on Etsy!!
April 22, 2011 at 12:23 pm
The ring is not handmade, it’s not supplies, it’s not vintage, it’s a reseller. But think of the Etsy sales commission $$$! Allowed! Ka-ching!
April 22, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Reported it for those very reasons. Great minds, etc., etc…
April 22, 2011 at 1:09 pm
galvanized mop bucket
“vintage mop bucket with wood red bail handle. i love to see these filled with plants, spools of twine {or} placed near the door to hold your hat and mittens in the winter.”
i also love to see these at the landfill. where others see trash {or} junk i see lovely pieces ready to be photographed near driftwood, given captions from the Creamy Auto-Description Generator 5000 {and} sold for enough money to buy a new vial of the fairy dust i sprinkle over pieces of garbage to transform them into rustic vintage treasures. and over my tax returns when i try to convince the irs that dirty old matchboxes are a legitimate business expense.
April 22, 2011 at 1:36 pm
I think this might actually win the award for most BS waste of money in her shop: http://etsy.me/eY1LDd
$56 for a battered wire basket?! This woman has nearly a thousand sales, and I’m sure the most handmade part of what she does is whacking things with a hammer a few times before taking a pic of it on barn wood.
April 22, 2011 at 1:46 pm
“The most handmade part of what she does is whacking things with a hammer a few times”
That reminds me of an episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” where she took up a new hobby–antiquing furniture. It required her to buy a table and then whack it with a heavy chain. She kept giggling as she did it.
She was ahead of her time. Today, she’d be on Etsy. And still giggling when someone bought her items. “Ohhh, Mis-ter Graaant! Another rube bought my ‘antique’ table. Ka-ching!”
April 22, 2011 at 8:34 pm
I dunno, I kinda think the $92 wall clock that is so vintage it requires batteries wins the grand prize.
April 22, 2011 at 1:58 pm
I have a megaton of crappy old office doodads cluttering up my house. Oh! and used cosmetics! I can make a KILLING on Etsy!
WELCOME TO ETSY: SELL YOUR OLD SHIT HERE, NO CRITICISM ALLOWED.
April 22, 2011 at 5:21 pm
They actually sell used cosmetics at one of my local thrift stores and I don’t understand.
Like, I’ve bought used nail polish, but they have lipstick and things too.
April 22, 2011 at 3:31 pm
You know i came home to cat barf that looked just like that except it had a few feathers and animal bits in it! maybe I too can be an Etsy extraordinaire if i force fed my cats buttons and wrap it all up and put it on a necklace. because a necklace would be different.
April 22, 2011 at 4:03 pm
But then you’d have to scarify your body and pose nude, and call it a scapular necklace or some other such bullshit….
April 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm
That wrist thing reminded me of the enormous roadkill I almost stepped on the other day. I thought it was a big groundhog or something but as I glanced back, its tail looked suspiciously rat-like. I decided not to look again.
Regretsy math is always so precise. Just like real math, or so I’m told.
April 22, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Will concede that the cuff?? is indeed “unique.” Might even give seller “organic” (hairballs are organic, right?), but would someone please tell me WTF is “Epict teamb?” Her name? A foreign language for “I have no taste” or simply her lithium wearing off completely?
April 22, 2011 at 5:44 pm
The red tickets are “vintage new”? What does that mean?
April 22, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I kind of love the last one. There’s something beautiful and desperate in a store pic where even the (model? creator?)is just holding the thing, looking down at it as if to say, “I don’t know WTF it is either. Just buy it, right?”
April 22, 2011 at 7:23 pm
It reeks of desperation.
April 23, 2011 at 6:11 pm
I must be psychic… When I saw that bracelet thing the first thing I said to myself was “That looks like someone scraped it out of their dryer lint trap.” That was before I scrolled down far enough to see the last pic.