An Open Letter to Chad Dickerson
Dear Chad,
It was with minimal interest that I read your blog post today, announcing your new position as CEO of Etsy.
You did great! I liked how you sort of talked about the problems at Etsy, hinted that you might be fixing them, and then distracted us with a picture of dolphins.
Are you sure you haven’t done this before?
Right now, the comments reflect a wide range of opinions, from Congrats! to Congratulations!, though to be fair, the latter is mostly from people who work there.
Of course, what I find the most telling is that you make no mention of the reseller problem on Etsy. I can only assume you haven’t heard about this yet, since you’re probably busy choosing a rotary phone and upcrafted desk accessories.
Well, I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but there are resellers on Etsy. In fact, there are so many resellers on Etsy, if you start to type “resell” into the handmade search box, Etsy will helpfully finish the word for you.
You’re in a tough spot, Chad, if that is your real name.
On the one hand, Etsy is supposed to be a handmade marketplace, and “a beautiful experiment in restoring community and culture to our commerce.”
On the other hand,
CASH MUTHAFUCKAS
It’s a toughie, isn’t it? Those pesky resellers sell thousands and thousands of pieces of shit every day, and it’s just so hard to say 
!
The good news is that while you were driving your Pacer up the coast of Ocracoke Island and playing with your cockles, Etsy was staffing up its Content Team! It’s a good move, because until now, there have only been two people not caring.
But now that there are three people, a chicken and a Magic 8 Ball on the team, we’re going to really start seeing some action.
Now, I realize things won’t change overnight, and by “overnight” I mean “ever.” But I’d like to offer you and your new team a helpful hint that I’ve picked up along the way, and perhaps, between all of us, nothing will change.
Ready?
LOOK FOR KEYWORDS THAT MIGHT INDICATE THE SELLER HAS A FACTORY
Yuàn nǐ zài cè shì zhōng jiāo hǎo yùn!
July 21, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Dearest future douchecanoe,
Welcome to the craft-tardery that is Etsy. We have complete faith that you will continue the time honored tradition of not giving a whimsicle fuckery about your community and its “standards” or silly “rules.”
Just wanted to say Congrats!
Thanks for not rocking the resold boat!
July 21, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Perfect welcome letter, Thumperchick! And since there’s been a huge thread on permamuting on Etsy today, I found this line from the Chadster especially notable:
“Etsy is a marketplace, but what makes it special is that it’s more than a place to buy and sell. It’s also a marketplace of personal stories and connections.”
Sure, as long as you don’t step on any admin toes.
You go, Douchecanoe!
July 21, 2011 at 9:33 pm
…speaking of the permamuting
http://www.etsy.com/teams/7714/ideas/discuss/8720512/page/1
July 21, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Tee hee! I read that “Choadster”.
July 22, 2011 at 7:30 pm
I work for a place that handles email. Sometimes people try to send what we in the business call “spam”. We prefer that they not do that, and have built some tools to make the misuse of the system more difficult. The guy who built those tools just left the company a few weeks ago. Guess where he’s going?
He’s going to etsy to work on the reseller problem. He’s pretty good at that sort of thing.
July 23, 2011 at 9:10 am
Seriously? Well damn! I may yet hold out hope.
July 21, 2011 at 5:53 pm
I like how he thinks three years with Etsy is a long time.
July 21, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Its not just a long time, its vintage!
July 21, 2011 at 7:18 pm
BRILLIANT! *skipping happily* LOL
July 21, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Also from his blog post: Over the holidays, I headed to a retreat in Ocracoke Island in North Carolina (my first real vacation in over two years at Etsy).
Oh Chad, I’m so sorry you had to go two whole years without a vacation. It has been three for me, and counting. But please, go on whining.
July 21, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Ocracoke is pretty awesome though. I was bucked off a horse while half drunk and got sand all up in my crevices. That was about 15 years and 5 vacations ago.
July 21, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Can’t you get bucked off a horse while you’re half drunk and get sand all up in your crevices on any beach? Is the Ocracoke (which sounds like a disgusting vegetable-carbonated beverage blend) sand more exciting, somehow?
July 21, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I’ve been going there all my life and I’m PISSED that HK mentioned it. I realize Chad said it first, but who the fuck is reading his dumb shit, anyway? Ocracoke is like he first rule of fight club.
July 22, 2011 at 7:18 pm
How the hell does one pronounce “Ocracoke?” Like it looks…awk-ra-koke? Or like “Oh, crack hokey.”
July 21, 2011 at 6:22 pm
What the *$#@ is a vacation, exactly??
July 21, 2011 at 6:37 pm
I always thought “vacation” was the term for calling in sick so you can spend the day sitting out on the porch with a beer and a book, fantasizing about having been fired.
July 21, 2011 at 7:09 pm
I believe that is the time you get to spend miserable and drunk with a bunch of people you don’t like. Oh wait, maybe thats family time… those two seem to blend together in a miserable haze for me.
July 21, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Yes. That’s exactly what it is.
July 21, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Nah, I can’t afford to call in sick to sit on my porch and drink beer. Beer is too expensive and I went and used all my sick days on being sick and then got guilted about getting the flu during the early winter months.
July 22, 2011 at 6:50 am
For us, vacation is that lovely week that we spend in airports and at my parents house. The entire time searching for the rest of the liquor and Xanex to numb the pain of not being somewhere else. Seriously, I’m pretty sure we spend more money on staying hammered than we do on plain tickets from NY to CA… Wow, that realization makes me need a drink…
July 22, 2011 at 6:51 am
*plain = plane… haven’t even started drinking yet, folks…
July 22, 2011 at 7:26 pm
“Vacation” is the credited time you sell back to your employer every six months in order to pay the bills that pile up during the other five months.
July 21, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Vacations? I (vaguely) remember those! After all, I got to actually take one, once.. in about 25 years.
I feel his pain, though, don’t you??
July 21, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Yeah, my husband hasn’t had a vacation in twelve years and I’ve always worked from home, so I’ve never had one…. but I’m crying for Chad. The poor bastard.
July 22, 2011 at 8:06 am
Hey; lay off The Chad, okay?
It’s really tough being in charge of people whose job descriptions are “gluing shit to other shit”; you have to make sure that they have enough glitter and those little-hot-glue-gun-stick-things (and those do NOT stack well in a warehouse!). It’s really tough to be so Creamy all of the time; the man deserves a break.
July 21, 2011 at 6:40 pm
I have never been so upset to be a North Carolinian… I was hoping the new boss would have some morals, and perhaps I would gain pride as an American once again. Well, shit on my face and call me a toilet.
And really, two years? Son of a bitch! A vacation for me is sitting out in the middle of a damn corn field petting a raccoon!
July 21, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Hey, my husband went to OINC for 36 hours while I went to my mom’s house overnight with the baby. That totally counts, right? Right?
No?
Well, then it’s been since 2003.
July 21, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Is “petting a raccoon” another one of those North Carolina euphemisms? In Virginia we have raccoons, but no genitals, so I get confused.
July 22, 2011 at 12:17 am
I don’t care what it means… now I want to pet a rccoon, too!
July 22, 2011 at 12:19 am
…or indeed a raccoon. Or anything else that’s cute and furry. Whtver.
July 22, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Some genitals are cute and furry… so masturbation might count, you know, if there are no actual Raccoons around. Unless you’re in Virginia, apparently.
July 21, 2011 at 11:19 pm
We use our vacation time to stay home when one of us are sick or there’s something else we must do. And our money goes to basic bills. I can’t stand asshats who think that skipping a vacation one year is something we should all cry over. The last vacation I had was last summer, to visit family, and before that I was 12. I’m in my 30′s now, so that’s about every 15 years on average for a vacation. But let me see if I can cry for him not getting a vacation in 2 fucking years….
Nope. I failed.
July 22, 2011 at 8:29 am
But you TRIED to cry for him, Daisy. That counts so much more than he does.
July 21, 2011 at 6:56 pm
I’VE been with Etsy three years. Where’s my moddy job?
July 21, 2011 at 6:59 pm
It reminds me of conversations with my 4 year old “Mommy remember when I peed in my room that super duper long time ago?” Me: “You mean yesterday? Yes, I remember.”
July 21, 2011 at 7:14 pm
for a CEO at ANY tech company 3 years is an EON.
July 21, 2011 at 9:33 pm
At my Fortune 100 software sweatshop, we changed SVPs about as often as our undies.
July 21, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Agreed! With his opening words he shows emphasis of the dick side of dickenson
July 22, 2011 at 1:20 pm
I know if I work at a place for three years without becoming CEO, I have to cry myself to sleep every night until I make the pain stop by burning the company to the ground.
So I can relate, you know?
July 22, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Not long enough for him to be able to remember when they actually did shut down resellers!
July 21, 2011 at 5:57 pm
I wonder if Rokali will ceremonially hand over the famous 8 inch hunting knife to this new douchebag?
I can’t help being sad for a moment for the me of 5 years ago who was so excited to discover etsy, she is sooo dead.
July 21, 2011 at 9:36 pm
“I can’t help being sad for a moment for the me of 5 years ago who was so excited to discover etsy, she is sooo dead.”
That me is dead too. Let’s hug.
July 22, 2011 at 4:55 am
Me too, fellow long-timer brethren. *sad head nod* Me too.
July 22, 2011 at 8:57 am
We should start a club.
July 22, 2011 at 9:24 am
You’re already in that club, sweetie. You just commented on it’s webpage.
July 22, 2011 at 7:48 pm
OMG! You are so right! I never really looked at it like that before!! I belong here…this is my destiny!! *licking orange Cheeto crud from my stubby fingers*
July 21, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Dear Etsyian,
I am absolutely, positively determined to solve all the prob—ooh, look! Pretty, shiny dolphins! SHINY!!!
Cuddles and cupcakes,
Chad Dickerson
July 21, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Of course he shows dolphins. No one at Etsy is allowed to point out that the ocean also has sharks. In fact, if you see them from shore and call out “shark!” the Etsy lifeguard hits you over the head with a life preserver.
July 21, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Is it a glittery life preserver with handpainted starfish on it? ‘Cause if it isn’t, I’ll be unconscious, but I won’t be happy about it.
July 21, 2011 at 7:00 pm
It’s bedazzled, does that count?
July 22, 2011 at 4:57 am
Rest assured, if it’s an Etsy life preserver it’ll be made by 8-year-old Chinese kids, have a mustache glued to it, and photographed on tasteful barnwood.
July 21, 2011 at 7:04 pm
that would be “calling out”
July 21, 2011 at 7:07 pm
*said in a whiny voice* Aw, gee! I guess you’re going to shut down this thread, now, aren’t you? Poop!”
July 21, 2011 at 7:41 pm
That’s probably the etsy lifeguards reaction if you are swimming away from the shark too… gotta feed those sharks somehow…
July 21, 2011 at 8:20 pm
I guess we aren’t allowed to mention how dolphins are really rather dicks either huh?
July 21, 2011 at 9:37 pm
“Dolphin Boner” sounds like a really useful insult.
July 21, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Sounds like another band name to me.
July 21, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Starfish? Surely you mean octopus with a monocle?
July 21, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Chocolate starfish?
July 21, 2011 at 11:39 pm
Fuck that shit. Sharks are way cooler than dolphins any day.
July 22, 2011 at 5:51 am
To quote Glee (shut up I like it)
“Dolphins are just gay sharks”
July 22, 2011 at 8:36 am
Misery156: I’ve never seen the show, but I will adopt your parenthetical pre-emptive comeback for anything I quote from now on. Thank you!
July 21, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Give Chad a break, now. Those dolphins are members of the “more than quadrupled” Etsy Engineering Team (EET).
The other two members are O’Reilly manuals from the trendy used bookstore/Earl Grey tea shop.
July 21, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Apropos of nothing, O’Reilly tech books have the best covers. My favorite is the Python one with a rat on the cover.
July 21, 2011 at 8:22 pm
personally, and i know i’m in the minority, but i hate stupid fucking gross dolphins. i watched some discovery channel special on them once and learned how they are sexually attracted to humans and then saw a group of adult dolphins gang rape a baby dolphin just for fun. that did it for me. fuck dolphins. they are creepy as hell.
July 21, 2011 at 9:16 pm
You are not the only one:
http://shop.theoatmeal.com/collections/frontpage/products/signed-oatmeal-book
July 22, 2011 at 9:05 am
OMG. I didn’t know this. I just spent the last hour on reading about this. CREEPY.
July 22, 2011 at 11:22 pm
I herd of attempts to rape in oceanariums, but after reading a few links above… I’m now more terrified of dolphins than I ever was of sharks and sting rays combined.
July 21, 2011 at 5:59 pm
I’m sure we’ll eventually make him rue the day, us Regretsy thugs.
July 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Ah, Helen Killer, you’re so cynical. I’m sure this new boss will be NOTHING like the old boss.
Welcome aboard, Chad! I look forward to having many laughs at your expense in the future.
July 21, 2011 at 8:23 pm
i hear the who playing in my head! “meet the new boss! same as the old boss!” *wanders off dancing*
July 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Tell me I’m not the only one giggling at the name “Dickerson”.
Mostly because my sister calls me that when we’re throwing insults at each other for laughs.
July 21, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I think you fat losers are being to hard on him. CLEARLY he’s just trying to sell some vacation pictures.
July 21, 2011 at 6:16 pm
**too. derp
July 21, 2011 at 6:03 pm
“Maybe the Magic 8 Ball will help,” she said hopefully. “Not likely” was the Magic 8 Ball’s response.
July 21, 2011 at 7:22 pm
“Ask again later.”
July 21, 2011 at 6:03 pm
now every time I see a pocket watch it fills me with rage. thanks etsy for ruining pocket watches.
July 21, 2011 at 6:03 pm
The one thing you can say about Etsy is they have a great diversity of thought over there.
One of them said “cheers” instead of “congrats!” She must be British.
July 21, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Do they say, “Cheers to your both…” across the pond too? She must have been so busy kissing butt *and* trying to be diverse that she forgot to proofread.
July 22, 2011 at 8:16 am
Obviously there’s peer pressure to kiss ass over there; The Chad will know who didn’t get their butts out online to katow to his regime.
So we can translate “Congrats, Chad!” from Etsyian into English as “Whatevs; I’d do what I gotta.”
July 21, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Strange. I would have thought that mtraub would have given all the admins a workshit in wishing Chad (wonder if he is hanging) felicitations and the best wishes in his success and in all his future endeavors. Perhaps it means that they are jealous losers and really hope that Chad falls on his face?
July 21, 2011 at 6:15 pm
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July 21, 2011 at 6:16 pm
So I’ve never noticed this before, but is everyone who works for Etsy white? Not only are they lacking diversity of thought, they appear to be lacking plain old diversity.
July 21, 2011 at 6:34 pm
I noticed that, too. Maybe the non-whites in Brooklyn are busy doing real work instead of the marshmallow cupcake kind?
July 22, 2011 at 5:02 am
The job market is horrible. I know five dozen non-white folk who would be good at, want, and desperately need a job at a place like etsy.com I’m talking about people in fashion, art, marketing, web design etc. And most of these people are extremely talented, passionate, smart, well educated and very much qualified. Not one can find a job in this city.
I’d count myself as one of them, but I’m a mathematician, and working at etsy would be over my head in terms of crafty-artyness, though I too need a better job. I have two masters degrees in science and math and barely work part-time. (deep breath…cue violin)
There is no excuse for having an (almost) all white staff in NYC. Maybe in Vermont… but Brooklyn? Come on!
July 21, 2011 at 6:35 pm
I’ve always wondered about that. There was that one workshop photoshoot they had on Flickr but I doubt the ONE black girl in the ENTIRE set still works there.
July 21, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Maybe she got a job over here as “the only sane person in the world.”
July 21, 2011 at 7:55 pm
If only I could thumbs you up more than once…
July 21, 2011 at 7:08 pm
this is probably why “the only sane person in the world” is a black chick
July 21, 2011 at 7:34 pm
I didn’t even see your comment here. I’d delete mine if I could.
July 21, 2011 at 8:03 pm
i’m sure they have a token twee asian
July 21, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Probably just a pasty white chick with a Death Note backpack, a Domo-kun shirt, and the unfortunate tendency to use the words “Baka” and “kawaii!” in normal conversation.
July 21, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Do non-white hipsters exist?
July 22, 2011 at 4:55 am
I think I might be one but I can’t really tell.
July 22, 2011 at 11:11 am
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July 21, 2011 at 7:23 pm
My favourite comment, came from a seller that said “I know you’re a real person (my hint: air matress in a BK apartment)” or something like that (it’s paraphrased cause I’m a lazy loser and won’t go back for a quote). The seller thought that, because Chad was a REAL person, he would be better at his job.
A real person, as opposed to, you know, those robotic aliens who live in Maine and have box springs and sometimes don’t like crappy crafts.
July 21, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Alright I went back and re-read the comment and now I understand what the seller was trying to say, and it’s no longer as funny.
But taken out of context… yeah… I’m a lousy person.
This is when I use my “English is not my first language” excuse.
July 21, 2011 at 9:46 pm
@Cranly: your point about Chad being “one of the people” is a good one. An IT geek lacking in taste or furniture strikes me as LESS likely to have empathy for the Etsy “mission”. He’ll turn into a douchecanoe without a paddle.
BTW I’m in Rockland, Maine, on assignment, and they LOVE their crafts here. Main Street is Etsy come to life. If I see any alien robots, I’ll let you know. And then I’ll hot glue feathers to them.
July 21, 2011 at 9:49 pm
See if they have any globes of their planets, I want to glue some lace to them.
July 21, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Okay, who called him the “Cupcake Overlord”? I figure it has to be a Regretsian! Whoever it was, major thumbs up and high fives and all that.
July 22, 2011 at 7:38 am
That wasn’t a regretsian, believe it or not. That’s someone who actually doesn’t like regretsy.
July 21, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Oh jeez, it’s a friggin’ tea party of twee.
July 21, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Hipster shooting gallery.
July 22, 2011 at 5:07 am
Cheers Bronc! Now we have the 1st list of Admins whose jobs are on the line!
July 21, 2011 at 6:05 pm
I applaud your effort, HK, but it’s just pissing in the wind. I think you know that, though.
July 21, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Yes but it’s the only way to stay cool these days.
July 21, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Someone linked this post in the comments over there.
July 21, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Has anyone ‘wrapped it up’, yet?
July 21, 2011 at 9:48 pm
The answer dear cupcake/
is pissing in the wind/
the answer is/
pissing in the wind.
I miss Bob Dylan. Whatever happened to him?
July 22, 2011 at 12:34 am
This.
July 22, 2011 at 4:52 am
@msqualia: Thanks. That was nice of them to let Tom Petty’s dad hang out at the nursing home Christmas Party.
July 21, 2011 at 6:09 pm
If we piss in the proper direction, the wind should be able to blow it all into Etsy Admins’ faces.
July 21, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Like when i’m out running and I try to spit.
July 21, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Bet you tug on Superman’s cape too.
July 21, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Exactly… Now that I think about it. Know anyone with herpes? It would be a pleasant little surprise!
July 21, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Anybody take a look at the profile for idea2lifestyle?
“We live in Neverland, outside of it, it is a gray boring city, inside of it, there is a purple lake surrounded by exotic plants and animals, breeze from the snow moutain will bring dandelion seeds and inspiration.”
They are pulling out the stops on decorating these sweatshops nowadays.
July 21, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Or putting LSD in the water fountains.
July 21, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Ah, the magical land of fucked up punctuation, where the commas roam free and attach themselves to any phrase that happens to be passing.
July 22, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Those are’t dandelion seeds. They’re mushroom spores.
July 21, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Dear Chad,
I love the dolphins, but I don’t see a price or delivery charge.
I assume like everything else on ETSy that they are handmade.
I would like to order a pair to decorate with rhinestones and human hair to resell.
Please respond.
July 21, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Dear Jordan,
I am super duper, hippy-dippy happy that you like the dolphins. However, I am waiting until they are dead so that I can make masks from their skin, and adorn their skeletons with mustaches and crotched boobs an penises before I sell them.
Chad (can you believe that my last name is) Dickerson
July 21, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Dear Chad,
Please. That goes without saying.
And should cut down on the shipping weight.
I’ve already posted them in advance in my shop, “All Things Dolfin” and have 8 advance orders so I would like top increase my order to 12.
July 21, 2011 at 6:07 pm
circle jerk time in the comment section of his “next chapter”
July 21, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Yep. That mighty whoosh is the sound of some enormous sucking up going on.
July 21, 2011 at 6:07 pm
No calling out, please. I’m gonna close this thread now. Kk thx bye!
Oh and don’t forget to say ‘congradulatons’ to the new boss! (Wat is that squgly red line 4?)
XOXOXO!!!1!1!!!!!1
~Etsy Admins
July 21, 2011 at 6:08 pm
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July 21, 2011 at 6:14 pm
She also said “upcratfed” but I think we should forgive her, because she was clearly focused on the the dolphin picture. It’s pretty!
July 21, 2011 at 6:26 pm
I took “upcratfed” to perhaps hint at “crafts fed with what I just crapt” or a craft centipede that must feed on the crap spewed forth from the preceding craft.
July 21, 2011 at 6:32 pm
I think that the word needs to be changed to “upcrappted” anyway.
July 21, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Hey come on! “Upcrafted” is totally a thing on Etsy.
July 21, 2011 at 7:10 pm
upchucked*
July 21, 2011 at 7:16 pm
*nicely pointing out* It says u p c r a “t f” e d – the f and the t are mixed up. It’s still morning here in Australia so I’ve only had a few drinks and was able to see the mix up.
July 21, 2011 at 7:50 pm
upcrapted**
July 21, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Upcrafting: the process of gluing watch parts, mustaches, manacles, and other types of fuckery to objects to objects mass produced by children in Honduras. (also see “tea set”)
July 21, 2011 at 8:07 pm
forgive the derp above, it seems not sleeping in 38 hours and typing delays do not mix well
July 21, 2011 at 8:14 pm
regurgitated
July 23, 2011 at 10:28 pm
I know how they could fix this problem – Why doesn’t etsy just start another site for the resellers – and I have a name for it — crapsy ! (they can have it for free!)
July 21, 2011 at 6:09 pm
One positive thing about that upcrafted desk globe is that it’s the last faint glimpse of pure craftiness (and/or crappiness) on Etsy. Nobody in China or Taiwan would think to make and sell something like that wholesale.
July 21, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Okay, who else is up for copy/pasting this shit all over the blog comments?
July 21, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Dear Chad’s high school English Teacher,
Look what you did to this guy:
“… and I found Mary Haggerty, a successful photographer. Mary is a photographer with not one but two shops on Etsy: PhotoAmerica and MagicIsland. Mary is a photographer…”
Yeah. YOU did that. From what I gather in these three consecutive sentences is that Mary is a photographer.
I bet you’re proud of him!
~hugs and smooches,
Patty and her pain meds.
July 21, 2011 at 6:20 pm
I could be wrong, but if past experience with this ETSY -thing teaches me, there’s a pretty good chance that Mary may not in fact be 1. a SUCCESSFUL photographer, 2. a photographer with TWO shops on ETSY, or even, 3. a PHOTOGRAPHER.
July 21, 2011 at 6:26 pm
I don’t think Mary exists at all outside Chad’s own mind. That photo of Mary is some random woman he saw on the ferry.
July 21, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Based on the picture of her, I suspect she actually makes crafts involving HAIR.
July 21, 2011 at 6:35 pm
No, she exists, but she’s his girlfriend and she uses a camera phone for her “art.”
I worked at one company that suddenly went all artsy and installed “sculpture” in every available open space. There was actually one (of dolphins–swear!) that I liked. The others were, uh, special. I remember one that looked like a wheelbarrow of broken stones had overturned and scattered along a 6-foot stretch of floor. I asked someone, “Is it finished?” Apparently it was…and so was I.
Oh, the “sculptress” was the girlfriend of the CEO.
July 22, 2011 at 10:21 am
Now, now Mary (who is a photographer)not only exists in real-life, but she is the creative genius who gave us the thought provoking Louis Vutton piece from yesterday.
July 21, 2011 at 6:42 pm
http://www.ocracokephoto.com/Home_Page.html
She’s successful alright, just look at this black and white picture of a bride with half of her bridesmaids looking away; and one lone bridesmaid winking while holding a beer.
A timeless classic.
Not to mention her “general store” is etsy.
July 21, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Aww, they’re all wearing matching flip-flops! Probably sequined, for the cherished occasion.
July 21, 2011 at 8:25 pm
that’s not a bridal photo, it’s a band photo. The name of the band is “It’s my Wedding you bastard!”
July 21, 2011 at 10:36 pm
Thongs on the bridal party, classy.
Is the winter look matching uggs?
July 22, 2011 at 8:39 am
@Ronovo: I don’t know where you are, but here in NYC, sadly, UGGs are a year-round “fashion statement.” (That statement being “I have no common sense and will wear what the magazines tell me to, even if I look like an imbecile wearing UGGs with cut-offs and a tank top and a knitted cap when it’s 100 degrees.”)
July 22, 2011 at 4:07 pm
But uggs are so comfy!
July 21, 2011 at 6:32 pm
I came straight here with that exact passage on my clipboard!
The blandness and elephant-ignoring in that post is nothing new, but total lack of proof-reading? That’s gold. It’s almost as good as that time they used “SNAFU”, like it’s cute, in a customer service tips post.
July 21, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Makes you wonder if he is just that stupid or if he’s trying to convince everyone that because she takes pictures, she is a photographer.
First time I read it, I seriously thought that I was simply reading the same line over and over again.
July 21, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Yes, but what does Mary *do*? Is she, perhaps, a photographer?
July 21, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I think I read somewhere that she took pictures or something. What do you call that?
July 21, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Pictographer? Photo-taker? Image-renderer?
I don’t know. I’m at a loss for words.
July 21, 2011 at 8:30 pm
She is a digital watercolor artist.
July 22, 2011 at 8:41 am
She’s actually the senior imp inside a camera.
Now, I’ll go and sit in the library with the Librarian…:D
July 21, 2011 at 11:35 pm
I’m not convinced his high school English teacher is to blame for that. It looks way too much like writing I’ve seen on the web whose author was trying to optimize for certain keywords. I have to wonder if something like that was going on here.
July 21, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Oh, you guys! You are just overreacting. Things are totally going to change now that we have a new dictator, I mean, CEO. In fact, I heard they are looking at finding a permanent position for April on the board.*
*nothing mentioned is based on reality
July 21, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Yeah, but I think their idea of a position on the board is bent over it and nailed to it.
July 21, 2011 at 9:16 pm
The water board?
July 21, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Dear New CEO,
Please refrain from threatening journalists when they ask you questions. Also, feel free to leave out that you make your own underwear unless it is really relevant to the conversation, especially if you are going commando.
Thanks,
A disheartened etsy seller
P.S.
Namaste, Douche Canoe!
July 21, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Nothing good ever came from a “Chad.”
Ever.
July 21, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Sure you aren’t thinking of CHUD??
July 21, 2011 at 7:18 pm
CHUD are people too.
July 21, 2011 at 6:26 pm
LOL every Chad I have known has been called Chad the Cad.
July 21, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Except from a hanging one.
July 21, 2011 at 6:46 pm
I have a client that confirms this statement.
July 21, 2011 at 8:39 pm
A conservative relative of mine was protesting the Florida recount and was pictured in the paper with her “Don’t Be Had by a Chad” sign. I guess Etsians should have this as a motto too.
July 22, 2011 at 8:43 am
That’s a sampler waiting to happen.
July 21, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Chod, on the other hand….
July 21, 2011 at 11:48 pm
I used to know a guy named Chad. He dropped out of college and moved to the other side of the state because he wanted to be best butt-buddies with a guy who named himself after David Bowie’s character in Labyrinth, claimed to see auras, wanted to live in a caravan and make a ‘living’ by making and selling chainmail, and wrote power rangers fanfiction even though he was in his late 20′s.
… I think I didn’t lose much when I decidedly ‘lost touch’ with him.
July 21, 2011 at 6:21 pm
I can’t help but feel you’re being a bit unreasonable. I mean, what do you want them to do?
Adhere to ethical business practices? Translate their business philosophy into how they actually run their business?
NOT encourage a bizarre ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ reseller culture?
Come on, HK. Just…come on.
–
Moving away from my intense sarcasm- I kind of see Etsy as Gotham (with a lot more beige, and odes to whimsy). It’s riddled with corruption and people turning a blind eye. But you, determined to right the wrongs and expose the evil-doers, are Batman. Except maybe Batman in spirit and Catwoman in appearance. I just think the outfit would suit you better.
All we need now is a CF4L signal that we can shine in the sky whenever trouble is brewing.
To the Fuckery-mobile!
July 21, 2011 at 6:36 pm
YES! I wish I had more thumbs to give.
July 21, 2011 at 7:18 pm
I want an entire line of Fuckery-vehicles.
Fuckery-cycle
Fuckery-plane
Fuckery-omnibus
Fuckery-submarine
Fuckery-hovercraft
you get the idea.
Please see to it forthwith.
July 21, 2011 at 7:51 pm
nanananananananaFUCKERY!!!!
July 21, 2011 at 8:21 pm
July 21, 2011 at 8:50 pm
<img src="http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac296/Kiskia/cf4l.jpg"
July 21, 2011 at 8:50 pm
what the… I even previewed it!
July 21, 2011 at 6:24 pm
I just wish there was another site to sell on that did as well. We could get Dror to Paint on his belly RESELL and the video of him would pop up on every resellers page when you tried to access it.
Ok going back to my sewing machine, will pretend I am a big dolphin intead of a small turd in the ocean.
July 21, 2011 at 6:25 pm
From paragraph 6 of Douchecanoe’s blog post :
“My intention was to totally unplug from the world, but I couldn’t resist looking to see if there were any Etsy sellers in this unlikely place, and I found Mary Haggerty, a successful photographer. Mary is a photographer with not one but two shops on Etsy: PhotoAmerica and MagicIsland. Mary is a photographer and she took me out in her Jeep on her daily ride on the beach, and I brought my camera along, too. ”
So, wait. Is Mary a photographer?
Yeah, I see LOTS getting done by this genius.
July 21, 2011 at 7:16 pm
I agree, I had the feeling in that paragraph that he “buys his underwear at K-Mart.”
July 21, 2011 at 11:50 pm
Now what’s THAT a euphemism for?
July 21, 2011 at 6:25 pm
I’s nure that he’ll find dolphin in Brooklyn too.
GRILLED DOLPHIN
Dinner for 4. … dark meat on dolphin. Marinate 4 … Approximately 10 minutes total for 1 inch fillets. Baste with marinade mix while grilling.
Ingredients: 7 (ground .. oil .. paprika .. vinegar …)
BLACKENED DOLPHIN, REDFISH, ETC.
Combine dry spices in flat platter or pan. Melt butter in pan large enough to accommodate filets without overlapping. Heat large cast-iron …
Ingredients: 12 (flakes .. leaves .. oregano .. salt .. thyme …)
DOLPHIN L’ORANGE
Place vinegar and sugar in saucepan. Boil until mix just starts to thicken. Add orange extract. Remove from heat. Place 1 layer orange slices …
Ingredients: 5 (extract .. oranges .. sugar .. vinegar …)
B F’S PIZZA DOLPHIN
In baking pan, which has 1/4 inch melted butter, place the fish, squeeze lime juice over fish, season liberally with spices to taste, cover …
July 22, 2011 at 6:44 pm
PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals. (Stretch your imagination; they’re mammals!)
July 22, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Also, Aliceblue, you rule! I would dig being your friend, like, elsewhere. (Change an E to an A)
July 21, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Cash MuthaFuckas should be Etsy’s new Tagline. I will really reopen a shop there if anything ACTUALLY changes. But I kinda want to make it to 40 so I’m not holding my breath.
July 21, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Yeah, I saw Chad speak at RailsConf this year. He said they deploy their code to production twenty times a day. Everyone at the company has deployed at least some code to production, including two dogs. He was proud of this, and held it up as a good example for the rest of us to follow. Some people, I am sure, ate that shit up, but those of us who live on earth just figured he’d added a lithium chaser to his regular morning wake-n-bake that day.
July 21, 2011 at 6:59 pm
July 21, 2011 at 7:08 pm
There aren’t enough thumbs for how much I like this.
July 22, 2011 at 11:37 am
Yes, yes, oh god yes. I will grow more thumbs for this comment!
July 21, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Code is deployed to production 20 times a day. So even in a 10 hour day, which I doubt any of them work, that’s every half hour. No fucking way they’re testing it. And dogs are writing it? Nice. I’m going to tell the developers at my company that they could be replaced by a dog. They’ll really like that.
July 21, 2011 at 7:31 pm
He said deploys every twenty minutes on average. Nobody works more than eight hours a day, and everyone gets a full hour for lunch. The math works out. Their about page lists 93 members in the Engineering group [including one of the dogs] – if they’re all devs, they’d average one deploy each per week. God only knows how they manage source control & QA with that many devs and that aggressive a schedule.
By the way, adding an employee’s photo to that about page counts as a commit and requires a deploy. If I’d have met him after the talk I would have suggested a simple CMS might be more practical.
July 21, 2011 at 8:14 pm
And are they testing their own code?
July 21, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Depends on the breed.
July 21, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Wait, they have dogs that write code? Clearly my two dogs are lazy fucks and need to be put to work forthwith. Fuckers have been getting a free ride all these years!
July 21, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Oh hey, the whole keynote is archived on YouTube. Watch and learn.
July 21, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Well, thank you for that! I even watched the whole thing. Almost as good as an Ambien, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. But at least he wore a clean RAWR shirt that day. [/sarcasm]
July 21, 2011 at 10:02 pm
I’ll bet the dogs are the only coders that don’t fall for the agile development bullpoop. After all, anyone agile enough to lick their own taint doesn’t need fancy code management: they’re agile enough.
(Is this joke too ‘inside’? Report it to 877-twt-wffl. Poorly trained call center flunkies are standing by.)
July 21, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Etsy code fuckery was one of the things that drove me spare when I had a shop there. They’d spend hours tweaking the “searching” icon so it would do weird psychedelic twirlies while you waited, but never, ever did anything practical like a better shopping cart or a search function that actually worked. And they had a knack for rolling out huge, complicated changes at the worst times, such as the two weeks before Christmas.
July 21, 2011 at 10:54 pm
And they’d do it on a Friday, then disappear for the weekend, while all the sellers freaked out in the forums.
I do not miss those days.
July 21, 2011 at 6:41 pm
What was, my dearest Regretsians? Why, I believe that would have been the sound of the bus crushing the limbs of all the sacred resellers being tossed under.
http://i52.tinypic.com/208cp38.jpg
July 21, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Here we go. I just hope there’s enough worms in the can for the whole class.
Oh, sorry, that’s not a can of worms; it’s a can of whoop-ass!
July 21, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Why can’t we have a website called I LIKE MAKING CRAP. then we could sell our crap to people that want to buy our crap. I would even be interested in buying other peoples crap. The best part is No Forums No chats no circles No admin. Just buying and selling crap. We make only one crap at a time, so you can buy one crap at a time.
July 22, 2011 at 3:54 am
I love this idea, would there be a search area, as I wouldn’t want to buy just any old crap!
July 21, 2011 at 7:04 pm
That Chinese…yeah, sorry, you wouldn’t say “不，謝謝“ (the characters look slightly different because I live in Taiwan and use Traditional Chinese, but that’s not the reason it’s not quite right).
I mean “不，謝謝” is understandable, any Chinese speaker would get your meaning, but what you want to be saying is “不要，謝謝“…although even then, that’s not a common construction. More commonly you’d hear “不要，對不起“ or “不要，不好意思”.
Sorry!
July 21, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Shit, are we supposed to take notes? I forgot my pen.
July 22, 2011 at 7:10 am
A handmade brush would be much more practical.
July 22, 2011 at 8:44 am
A handmade brush…in the hands of a Chinese child laborer, of course!
July 21, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Talk to Google translate, bizatch
July 21, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Yeah, well, I can only hope that Google translate will get better. It renders understandable translations now, but not correct ones. The more people who use it and manually correct bad translations the better I hope it will get. As of now, it translates – for example – “我不是不舒服！“(“I don’t feel uncomfortable!”) as “I am so uncomfortable” which is the opposite of the meaning of the sentence. Google Translate at this point simply cannot be trusted. I do hope it gets better.
July 22, 2011 at 7:14 am
How do you say “you can adjust the size of the smell” in Chinese?
(the Russian words for “smell” and “sash” are homonyms. Way too lazy to link to the Regretsy post on this one.)
July 22, 2011 at 4:52 am
You are awesome for filling us in. Thank you! This post made my day!
July 21, 2011 at 7:08 pm
I bet all the Etsy ssellers that offer tassels for your Loafers are thrilled to have a CEO on board named Chad.
July 21, 2011 at 7:12 pm
What does an Etsy staffer do on a vacation? The same shit they do at work, fuck off, type bullshit, ignore the problem, they just do it somewhere else. The hardest decision is how many ironic mustaches do you pack for an island retreat.
July 21, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Twelve and a quarter.
July 21, 2011 at 7:23 pm
this is exactly the same speech that every new CEO makes when they are forced to emerge from the corner office and communicate to the plebs.
I should know. I’ve been contracting for the place I work for 3.5 years, and we’ve gone through 3 CEOs. We’re in an “interim” phase between CEOs right now, so the VP of engineering is “acting CEO” and HE’s going to be giving this same meaningless speech on Monday, but I’m sure the following words will NOT be in his speech: photographer, dolphin, vacation, north carolina, unplugged.
July 21, 2011 at 7:23 pm
“The marketplace has 10 million handmade, vintage items, and craft supplies listed across the 800,000 active shops that call Etsy home, ” he says in the blog post…
AND ART, ASSHOLES!
YOU HAVE FINE ART ON YOUR WEBSITE
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF LISTINGS OF IT
of course no one would know this because you can’t get there in one click from the front page like you can to every other major category. And they almost never include fine art in any of the front pages (prints sometimes; originals, almost never)or in any of the daily finds e-mails.
July 21, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Tell me about it.
*forcibly stifles long-pent-up rant about Etsy’s treatment of photography and the shitty display interfaces and… and…*
*POP*
Ow.
July 22, 2011 at 10:33 am
He was too focused on making a point to highlight the vintage listings.
July 21, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Just have to point out that the dammned ‘emotional acorns’ are on the front page again…
July 21, 2011 at 7:42 pm
July 22, 2011 at 6:53 pm
“So long, and thanks for all the fish!” (I’m surprised no one made it there before me…heh.)
July 21, 2011 at 7:45 pm
I love you, April Winchell.
jtck
PS — Ooops. Did I out you? I don’t speak Chinese, or Klingon or whatever you signed off with in your note to Chad. Sorry.
July 21, 2011 at 7:48 pm
July 21, 2011 at 7:58 pm
July 21, 2011 at 8:04 pm
OK, a quick search for “factory” came up with this seller:
http://www.etsy.com/people/Factory21?ref=ls_profile
and a quick search for “factory21″ came up with this commercial web site:
http://www.factory21promotionals.com/servlet/StoreFront
and this is what esty is supposed to be about:
Etsy is the World’s handmade marketplace. Our mission is to empower people to change the way the global economy works. We see a world in which very-very small businesses have much-much more sway in shaping the economy, local living economies are thriving everywhere, and people value authorship and provenance as much as price and convenience. We are bringing heart to commerce and making the world more fair, more sustainable, and more fun
(from http://www.etsy.com/about?ref=ft_about)
how does “Factory21″ fit?
July 21, 2011 at 8:09 pm
July 21, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Well there goes my I LIKE MAKING CRAP website….I don’t even want to think how much POOP they can produce in one day. Of course their’s will be POOP cause poop can be mass produced, where as CRAP is art.
July 21, 2011 at 9:31 pm
I translated it to English, and had the sexy Google translate woman read it to me. It was kinda hot.
July 21, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Thank you for teaching me a new word: Douchecanoe. I said “twatwaffle” the other day and my husband said “You must have learned that off of Regretsy”
July 21, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Thanks to Regretsy, I shall forever say “You douchecanoe son of a twatwaffle!”
Thank you, HK. For sharing with us the many words of your crafting, whimsicle fuckery, wisdom.
~The woman who talks to her medication,
Whatsherface. <3
July 21, 2011 at 8:44 pm
July 21, 2011 at 8:49 pm
First: Black and white does not make a picture automatically good.
Secondly:
Dear Chad,
Are you telling me you not only bought this, but you also paid $275.00 for it!? I sure as hope you got a discount…
July 21, 2011 at 8:50 pm
HK, think you could work your magic and get these guys to write CF4L on their overalls and write us some sweet theme music? Shufflin’ shufflin’
July 22, 2011 at 12:35 am
July 21, 2011 at 10:06 pm
How’d I get bounced to MySpace?
Oh, never mind.
July 21, 2011 at 11:58 pm
What can we say, he’s a big fan of ZZ Top cover bands.
July 22, 2011 at 3:33 am
I hope these guys – and all the twins – gave you the rights to sell their pix
and that you pay them a nice chunk of change (which I bet they could use even more than you) each time you sell a picture of them…
or that they agreed a portion of that sales amount will go to a charity they support.
Yes?
July 22, 2011 at 7:17 am
I hear banjos, playing “Sharp Dressed Man.”
July 21, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I thought people called “Chad” all changed their names after the 2nd Bush election, due to the “Hanging Chad” issue in Florida.
July 21, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I think we’re all being kind of pessimistic, maybe Chad will–oh shit are those dolphins?!
July 22, 2011 at 12:00 am
You just made my brain go:
OH BACK THAT SHIT UP, ARE THOSE SOME MOTHERFUCKIN DOLPHINS? YOU BET YOUR SWEET ASS. THEM BITCHES BE SWIMMIN ALL UP IN THE OCEANS AND SHIT LIKE FLIPPER. GODDAMN, LOOK AT THOSE SMOOTH-ASS MOTHERFUCKERS!
… too much time on the
internetsinternet for me.July 21, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Isn’t working at Etsy effectively a vacation anyway?
July 21, 2011 at 9:19 pm
I almost feel bad for Chad Shumckatelli. Mary is a photographer. Such a shithole cameltoe reselling clusterfuck he is walking into, but I guess working at Etsy for 3 WHOLE FUCKING YEARS has really proven that he knows his shit! Mary is a successful photographer. I mean, clearly. He got the job, right? Mary is a photographer and she took me.. dolphins?
July 21, 2011 at 9:41 pm
What a concept!… Someone needs to create a nice affordable sales site for handmade items.
It is this simple. I have a shop on Etsy to sell artwork that I make myself. It hasn’t done me much good while others are getting rich selling junk. When I joined, it was supposedly for handmade items. I feel lied to.
July 21, 2011 at 11:00 pm
As you should, because you were.
July 22, 2011 at 5:12 am
When I joined five years ago, that’s what it was. Only they kept that as their mantra, but changed their business model.
LIES, MUTHAFUCKA.
July 22, 2011 at 7:14 am
I’ve actually considered starting a shop with non-vintage, factory manufactured crap just to see if Etsy would ever do anything about it. I wouldn’t lie about what I was selling. I would just like to see how they handle shops like this from a shop owners perspective.
July 21, 2011 at 11:27 pm
That was incredibly cynical… but deserved. I sell on Etsy but had never been aware of the reseller problem until reading Regretsy – not a lot of room for reselling in yarn/spinning fiber circles – so I really had no idea how bad things were. I sincerely hope that this new guy does do something to tackle this problem.
However… I’m pretty cynical that things will change myself. Reading the etsy blog/forums is like walking in on a massive circlejerk with cupcakes.
Of course, you can’t post anything like that over there, because it’ll immediately be removed from the forums with a stern reprimand that you’re not playing nice with the vintage coleslaw cupcake zydeco bands.
July 22, 2011 at 12:24 am
July 22, 2011 at 4:37 am
hey Chad, if you read all this! welcome! haha lolz
July 22, 2011 at 4:45 am
They couldn’t find a female CEO for this company? I’m certian a disproportionate number of the employees are women…
July 22, 2011 at 9:34 am
I’m pretty sure in my experience that would be my worst nightmare… HeyMichelle? LisaJune? Daniellexxo? Fuck that shit. If they have an actual mentally competent adult female in that place they are fucking hiding her because she’s probably over 40 and has sense.
July 22, 2011 at 5:25 am
See the dropdown menu About This Item on List a New Item – it says
“a member of my shop”
Chadarino will be adding:
(1) a member of my shop I only talk to by txtg my colors and quantities
(2) a container about sail into the harbor with my goods
(3) the stuff I bought in bulk on eBay last week
(4) available in all sizes and colors, bulk discounts given
Etsy redefined the word Arrogance, Rokali glowed with it, hired 199 people with it, and Chad just regurgitated it on his “look at me!” inane statement that is sadly all about Chad and not much else.
MethinksI think that the profits numbers at Etsy are actually running down the drain, they just aren’t saying it publicly.I do hope in my hopiest of hopes that another several thousand Etsy sellers not selling and paying tons of fees for nothing will jump ship and spread the word! Etsy is a ripoff from top to bottom, sellers and shoppers alike.
July 22, 2011 at 5:37 am
dear Helen, I posted a note but it didn’t appear. Did you just block, mute, ban, censor, silence, brick wall, flag, wrap this up now, no calling out!, that’s enough kids, go to your room, sit in the corner, you’re grounded, no tv+computer+ipad+ipod+gameboy+xbox for a week!….or is that just Etsy that does that to everyone they don’t like?
July 22, 2011 at 5:43 am
Oh oh, Etsy is officially an experiment now, how lovely. Is it just me, or are things that are usually branded “experiments” (or better yet, “social experiments”) ridiculously douchey and are just using the label of “experiment” as a cover for any stupid ass fuckery that may (and probably will) occur?
July 22, 2011 at 6:04 am
I REALLY REALLY want him to respond but have the feeling that it will be delivered to the same place Santa sent all the toys I asked for but never got.
July 22, 2011 at 7:08 am
Hey, don’t be so hard on resellers with factories in China. Etsy also is a place for you to unload unwanted crap you found. As in, “Oh, look at all these things I found in my factory! And they were all handmade!”
July 22, 2011 at 7:43 am
I really wouldn’t be surprised if he TOOK the vacation in order to get fodder for his welcome blog post.
July 22, 2011 at 8:54 am
Wait, this guy’s name is Chad?
http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson58.html
July 22, 2011 at 9:10 am
Thank you for making my morning!
Couldn’t tweet, fb or team quick enough between laughing.
Peace,
Mickey
July 22, 2011 at 9:29 am
At least they didn’t bring Maria back.
July 22, 2011 at 9:56 am
BAH! resellers give me hives and Etsy gives me anxiety attacks. I’ve been eating vicodin and crafting my ass off since my back surgery but have been too scared of the downfalls of Etsy to put any of my shit up for sell. I just know someone will steal my beautiful jewelry ideas that I made happen with my artistic ability
July 22, 2011 at 10:54 am
posted the open letter to chad on etsy forums:
http://www.etsy.com/teams/7714/ideas/discuss/8731605/page/1
then this:
http://www.etsy.com/teams/7714/ideas/discuss/8731851/page/1/
July 22, 2011 at 7:01 pm
I’m not even a member of Etsy (Heheh, “member”), but you have brass ones, ADJ!
July 22, 2011 at 11:52 am
Hey Chad,
I sell hand made things on Ebay.
I wouldn’t even consider selling them on etsy.
What could you do to change my mind?
I build science demonstrations, tools and Tattoo machines. I can sell my stuff on Ebay in three day listings consistently. The Chinese resellers can’t touch my customers because professionals don’t use cheap junk.
Change my mind Chad, show me why I should sell some of my stuff on etsy… or just stick with the chinese crap.
July 22, 2011 at 12:44 pm
From WSJ
Skeptics, however, consider Etsy richly valued, at almost 10 times last year’s sales. Bigger and more successful e-commerce sites, including Amazon and eBay, trade at around three to five times sales. Other critics fear the company’s growth could be hampered by its ironclad rule that sellers can use the site only to offer goods they have made themselves. While the number of items listed for sale on the site rose 40% to 24 million last year, it has fallen 4% from a year earlier in the first six months of 2011.
July 22, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Hahahahahahahaha-grhphllgwmph…
Sorry, choked on my tongue there.
July 22, 2011 at 1:58 pm
I know – right?
July 22, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Oh Ellen, I love you. Congrats “Chad!”
July 22, 2011 at 9:21 pm
I think it’s quite appropriate that his name has ‘Dick’ in it.