At $616, the scarf (with a snag!) is ‘inspired by,’ not ‘stolen from’ the Book of Kells? Must be the polyester, which was a rarity in 9th century Ireland.
This one seems to have been taken down now, but there are four other people selling the same thing for $7-23. One claims it’s silk, but I seriously doubt it. Another even calls it “vintage” (you know they had to). Notably, they all show the same folds.
Well, if it was snagged by somebody famous, and proof, preferably photographic, was provided, it might be worth it to someone. Not to me, but to someone with lots of money and a sad lack of bills to spend it on. Perhaps Princess Kate borrowed it from the Queen to avoid the turbulence caused by the rotors of the Royal helicopter as they exited the craft together? Or maybe Lady Gaga used it as a cover-up between takes on her latest video, and it got caught up in the metal bits of her costume? So many possibilities, but all we get is ‘inspired by’ and ‘the care tag shows’.
Well Emerald Isle says they don’t have it available for immediate shipping so I guess it’s worth $603.05 to get an $11.95 scarf RIGHT NOW. Even if it has a snag.
That scarf is total tourist crap. I almost bought the identical one when visiting Ireland over 20 years ago, but opted for the long rectangular style instead. And it definitely cost under $10 at that point; even if the polyester threads it was spun from turned to solid gold, it wouldn’t be worth over 600 bucks.
LOL, I have my own penis wrinkles. Mainly, I like to call any wrinkle a penis wrinkle. It makes me giggle and I chose this opportunity to use the word penis wrinkle since I never get to say penis wrinkle. Ya know?
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February 10, 2012 at 2:33 pm
If I buy some ‘art’ that I can make by taking off my glasses, I will save the cash for the glass orb thing I actually like.
This compare and save has now become quite useful. Those orbs may save my house from burning down since there is a klutz and a kitten here. Thanks Regretsy!!
I’ve wondered that…I mean, at what point does blurry stop being blurry and become A Statement?
So yeah, it’s cool if the blurriness was somehow saying something about the subject (like, say, Sarah Palin’s head), or is just cool somehow (like a photo I once took of a sax player; his entire body was blurred but the sax was in perfect focus), but this is just, “Hey, I took a blurry photo, so I’ll see it for a ton of money!”
Maybe I need to start selling my chickenscratch drawings as “Art.” Shit, I think I’m better than some folks on Etsy.
Where is this earcuff everyone is talking about? I mean, several people at work have made up psychotic rumors about me because I changed departments this week…but I refuse to believe that the other FJL’s are playing tricks on me, too. I haven’t been out of my meds THAT long.
Anyway…I’m looking at this at 10:12 central time, and no ear cuff. What gives?
I have crawled all over this entry and cannot find the set of earcuff pictures. Please tell me that they must have been removed and that no one will be swapping out my clothes, making me think I’m getting smaller.
I actually think it’s the other way around… the earlobe in the e-bay pic looks a little fuzzy between the cuff and piercing… the one with the diamond has actual skin texture around it.
God I wish I could stomach the stuff. We got a gigantic bottle of it as a wedding gift, but the black licorice taste makes me spit it out before I can feel any effects. WHY GOD WHY?!?!?!
And photoshopping (poorly, I must add) out one of the holes on the glass globe makes it not a stolen image. However, you could now file a paypal dispute for “Item not as described” when you receive one with an extra hole.
Although the etsy seller is clearly a reseller… I think the ebay seller is actually the one who stole the picture, not the other way around. Clearly they’re the same picture, but if you look there are natural looking wrinkles around the second (diamond) earring that the etsy seller is using, whereas that area on the ebay picture is veryyyy slightly blurry. Like… not-a-bad-job-using-a-photoshop-airbrush-tool blurry.
Hmmm. By God, I think you might be right. Of course, that more likely proves that both sellers stole the same photo from a third (as yet unidentified) seller. Does the deceit ever end?
I’ve been doing it all wrong, apparently… If I wanted to make money as a photographer, I shouldn’t be striving to take fantastic shots, but should instead be taking mediocre shots of scrabble tiles, mugs of various beverages, and blurry/shitty bokeh shots.
Who the fuck buys this shit and for what purpose? Do people really hang blurry photos of things like lights, trees and headlights up on their walls at home??
What I love is that you can’t even report these to Etsy anymore unless “it’s your intellectual property” or “I have ordered this item and not received it”. Fucktards. I loathe you.
You can’t report it to Etsy if it’s your intellectual property either. They basically tell you to hire a lawyer if you feel someone is infringing on your rights.
(If I’m wrong, somebody let me know since I discovered this when trying to report someone who stole something of mine and was selling it!)
Not invariably, but when I’m in the right mood. Specifically, the mood where I want to listen to guys yelling at me about how much they hate someone I don’t care about (or also don’t like). Sam Cornwell and the Escapist’s Yahtzee are other relevant entries in that genre.
Removing one of the holes in the glass globe takes a lot of work! They probably had to melt it down and use their glass-blowing expertise to create a new globe. If it was only removed in Photoshop, obviously that wouldn’t be worth the extra money.
It takes some serious fucking gall to try to sell a $10 polyester scarf for $615. I’d love to track that seller to the grocery store. “OK, the cereal you wanted to buy has been marked up to $300, just for you. And the chicken is now $5,000. We knew you’d be OK with it.”
Nothing wrong with it! I love the ear cuff too. Would rather buy it from a cheapo jewellery store than someone pretending they made it in their artistic ability.
And, if it is, can I get the spiderweb earcuff as a prize for being so observant? But only if it’s the one that costs $85. And is made of solid gold. I don’t want that other cheap one.
Ooh ooh ooh! I have one of those! The Book of Kells scarf! I was going to cut it up and use it as the bodice on a dress… but I’m doing things all wrong! I should resell it in my etsy shop for over $600 and lose the integrity of my shop whilst making myself look like an ass (or more of one)! BONUS! SCORE!
You know, “Compare and Save” always gets me riled up, but there is a positive. It makes me land on Etsy and touch base with a few seller friends I have over there…some really nice people, not like these sellers who seek to majorly rip off buyers.
Did the Compare & Save earcuff set get taken down? Or am I somehow totally missing it? Because I see no C&S earcuff pictures. Someone please rescue me from this particular confusion.
I would not have commented consecutively had I not been convinced I must have hit Preview instead of Post Comment. I refreshed the browser and everything. Clearly the internet wants me to go away.
Thank you for the reply. I was so stupidly baffled.
If there are any other latecomers to this party, do y’all see the earcuffs everyone else is talking about? Because I’m definitely a little weirded out here.
I did. I posted this before his reply and after repeatedly refreshing the page without seeing my initial comment (the one above this), so I posted again. Naturally, both showed up, which was probably why Bronc replied: concern some derp was going to spam the entry with variations on the same stupid question.
What the hell, I actually kind of like the bokeh there. It doubles as the blur of tears as I think of the spirit of Christmas. And also the year that my father left our family on Christmas Eve.
OK that actually didn’t happen, my dad’s sitting right over there.
But I still like the picture, what can I say. I think the colors are actually lovely and given that it’s just a picture of lights, seeing them…I don’t know…in fuzzy memory mode works for me somehow.
I wouldn’t pay money for it though cuz I’m a cheap motherfucker like that.
But people, don’t you know? Polyester is the new motherfucking SILK!!! I mean, it feels like silk, so it’s BETTER! so it HAS to cost more than silk! And lets face it, you will only find this one scarf, with a small snag towards the bottom! you cant miss this opportunity!
Oh, the worms!! Vegans would ever wear real silk, would they? NO, because the worms have not given their consent to have their sticky secretions taken and used for profit without giving the worms anything in return.
Polyester is Hipster Silk
Forget the polyester uses petroleum byproducts, thereby increasing our dependence on fossil fuel. One must think of the living worms, not the dead ones!
Looks like the glass candle holder seller is “on vacation” now. What kind of dildo sorcery is this that I can’t even report an item when the shop’s owner has fucked off from Etsy for a while?
HA! I’ve noticed that glass “candle holder” discrepancy IRL, right here, in town! There are a couple stores around SF that sell terrariums and terrarium-supplies that sell those between $10-$15, yet I found the exact same ones downtown at–yes–CB2 for $3.
February 10, 2012 at 1:33 pm
People who don’t know how to artistically use BOKEH! make me sad
February 10, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Me too.
It also makes me nauseous.
February 10, 2012 at 2:55 pm
I love using short depth of field, but I try to have something in focus.
At least they didn’t photoshop some lens flare in there.
February 11, 2012 at 4:26 am
Or those that stick a fancy word to an accidental picture so that they can sell it for 7 bucks. Ouch my depth-crippled eyes.
February 10, 2012 at 1:36 pm
At $616, the scarf (with a snag!) is ‘inspired by,’ not ‘stolen from’ the Book of Kells? Must be the polyester, which was a rarity in 9th century Ireland.
February 10, 2012 at 1:39 pm
What I was thinking. “The care tag shows it is 100% Polyester.” Is that EVER a selling point???
February 10, 2012 at 1:50 pm
February 10, 2012 at 2:09 pm
That’s vintage barnwood!
February 10, 2012 at 2:10 pm
The answer is ‘no.” NO.
February 10, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Answers the question: is it possible to be more than 100% polyester?
February 10, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Yeah, I thought that if maybe it was Silk it could perhaps account for the price (at least in the seller’ mind), but no, it’s clearly polyester.
February 11, 2012 at 12:35 am
This one seems to have been taken down now, but there are four other people selling the same thing for $7-23. One claims it’s silk, but I seriously doubt it. Another even calls it “vintage” (you know they had to). Notably, they all show the same folds.
February 10, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Well, if it was snagged by somebody famous, and proof, preferably photographic, was provided, it might be worth it to someone. Not to me, but to someone with lots of money and a sad lack of bills to spend it on. Perhaps Princess Kate borrowed it from the Queen to avoid the turbulence caused by the rotors of the Royal helicopter as they exited the craft together? Or maybe Lady Gaga used it as a cover-up between takes on her latest video, and it got caught up in the metal bits of her costume? So many possibilities, but all we get is ‘inspired by’ and ‘the care tag shows’.
February 10, 2012 at 3:42 pm
That seller has brass balls trying to sell that scarf for over $600. Maybe they borrowed some from the elephant sculptures….
February 10, 2012 at 6:32 pm
That seller has brass balls for trying to sell that scarf for over $20.
February 10, 2012 at 9:57 pm
For $616, they should at least have fucking ironed it.
February 10, 2012 at 1:36 pm
“Sharp details”, huh?
February 10, 2012 at 1:36 pm
You can almost buy a trip to Ireland for the price of that Kells scarf.
February 10, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Well Emerald Isle says they don’t have it available for immediate shipping so I guess it’s worth $603.05 to get an $11.95 scarf RIGHT NOW. Even if it has a snag.
February 10, 2012 at 1:51 pm
come! we are a warm and welcoming nation. and our book of kells rip-offs are much more competitively priced.
February 10, 2012 at 4:42 pm
That scarf is total tourist crap. I almost bought the identical one when visiting Ireland over 20 years ago, but opted for the long rectangular style instead. And it definitely cost under $10 at that point; even if the polyester threads it was spun from turned to solid gold, it wouldn’t be worth over 600 bucks.
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February 10, 2012 at 2:39 pm
No offense taken. The group of us humans with penis wrinkles on the sides of our faces have good senses of humor and thick skin…
February 10, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Thick foreskin?
February 10, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Depending on the type of penis wrinkle skin, that is definitely a possibility.
February 10, 2012 at 10:00 pm
LOL, I have my own penis wrinkles. Mainly, I like to call any wrinkle a penis wrinkle. It makes me giggle and I chose this opportunity to use the word penis wrinkle since I never get to say penis wrinkle. Ya know?
Penis wrinkle.
February 10, 2012 at 2:27 pm
What is this “penis wrinkle” of which you speak? Incidentally, I think my friends and I used to use that phrase as an insult in elementary school.
February 10, 2012 at 10:01 pm
I barely remember. I’ve not seen one in over a year.
February 11, 2012 at 12:02 pm
I’m still looking for the “ear cuff chick.”
My penis wrinkle must be obscuring it from view.
February 10, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Taking a blurry picture doesn’t make you a photographer. It just makes you someone who can’t use focus.
Stop it.
February 10, 2012 at 1:44 pm
I lose focus all the time. Oh, use – you said USE focus.
February 10, 2012 at 2:33 pm
If I buy some ‘art’ that I can make by taking off my glasses, I will save the cash for the glass orb thing I actually like.
This compare and save has now become quite useful. Those orbs may save my house from burning down since there is a klutz and a kitten here. Thanks Regretsy!!
February 10, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Regretsy not only saves money, it also saves lives.
Thank you, Regretsy!
February 10, 2012 at 3:31 pm
I’ve wondered that…I mean, at what point does blurry stop being blurry and become A Statement?
So yeah, it’s cool if the blurriness was somehow saying something about the subject (like, say, Sarah Palin’s head), or is just cool somehow (like a photo I once took of a sax player; his entire body was blurred but the sax was in perfect focus), but this is just, “Hey, I took a blurry photo, so I’ll see it for a ton of money!”
Maybe I need to start selling my chickenscratch drawings as “Art.” Shit, I think I’m better than some folks on Etsy.
February 10, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Does photoshopping the diamond (not included) into the spider ear cuff picture somehow justify the $70.05 price increase?
February 10, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Actually in this case, you can see that the diamond was photoshopped out of the ebay picture. They must have both stolen it from the same wholesaler.
Sharing is caring!
February 10, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Sorry about the re-post, folks. I thought I forgot to hit “post comment” the first time. Anyway, I said it better the second time (below).
February 10, 2012 at 7:02 pm
I’ve been doing a bunch of searching and it seems Marty Magic is the original seller.
http://www.etsy.com/people/martymagic
February 10, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Where is this earcuff everyone is talking about? I mean, several people at work have made up psychotic rumors about me because I changed departments this week…but I refuse to believe that the other FJL’s are playing tricks on me, too. I haven’t been out of my meds THAT long.
Anyway…I’m looking at this at 10:12 central time, and no ear cuff. What gives?
February 10, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Mingamonga, thank you for coming late to the party, too.
February 11, 2012 at 12:05 pm
THANK YOU! I couldn’t find any ear cuff picture, either, and was beginning to question that fudge I ate for breakfast!
February 10, 2012 at 8:27 pm
I have crawled all over this entry and cannot find the set of earcuff pictures. Please tell me that they must have been removed and that no one will be swapping out my clothes, making me think I’m getting smaller.
February 10, 2012 at 1:41 pm
I wouldn’t buy an actual page of the Book of Kells for $600. o.O
February 10, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I would
February 10, 2012 at 3:03 pm
But then you’d have to damage the Book of Kells. Maybe I’d pay $600 to timeshare the Book of Kells. >>
February 10, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Etsy: Buy handmade*!
(*values of ‘handmade’ may include ‘factory-fresh imported mass-made goods’)
February 10, 2012 at 4:12 pm
(*values of ‘handmade’ may include ‘factory-fresh imported mass-made goods’)
Robots have hands too, you know.
February 10, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Not only is she reselling that spider/web earring thing, she is also stealing their photos – check the skin creases by the ear.
February 10, 2012 at 1:53 pm
And she did a crappy job. If that diameond were really in the earlobe, the posts would be separated by a thin sliver of skin.
I hate resellers who aren’t honest about that fact.
I hate resellers who price the item 56x (yes, I did the math) the retail price elsewhere (and who knows what the wholesale price is?)
I hate resellers who steal photos.
I hate resellers who steal photos and then do a shitty Photoshop job.
February 10, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Yes, I know my math is wrong. I said I did it. I didn’t SAY it was correct.
February 10, 2012 at 2:43 pm
We all can’t be perfect, Mugsy…and you were upset so you got distracted. It’s okay. Bad Etsy sellers make us all angry.
February 10, 2012 at 2:05 pm
I actually think it’s the other way around… the earlobe in the e-bay pic looks a little fuzzy between the cuff and piercing… the one with the diamond has actual skin texture around it.
February 10, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Ok, replace “resellers” with “eBay sellers” in my post. I don’t have time to retype.
February 10, 2012 at 2:26 pm
There are substances to be ingested! No time to lose!
February 10, 2012 at 3:01 pm
There’s absinthe to be ingested!
February 10, 2012 at 4:14 pm
God I wish I could stomach the stuff. We got a gigantic bottle of it as a wedding gift, but the black licorice taste makes me spit it out before I can feel any effects. WHY GOD WHY?!?!?!
February 10, 2012 at 4:48 pm
That ear looks red and infected. And it’s an ugly earlobe to boot. I may be a FJL, but I have great-looking earlobes!
February 10, 2012 at 1:42 pm
I think photoshopping the (not included) diamond into the spider cuff photo totally justifies the $70.05 markup.
February 10, 2012 at 1:48 pm
And photoshopping (poorly, I must add) out one of the holes on the glass globe makes it not a stolen image. However, you could now file a paypal dispute for “Item not as described” when you receive one with an extra hole.
February 10, 2012 at 1:53 pm
I can practically hear the (re)sellers here: “I’ll change the picture in my artistic ability and no one will even recognize it. Walah! Profit!”
February 10, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Tempting. Then I could smash it and take a photo to prove I’ve destroyed the counterfeit globe.
February 10, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Just a sec’ honey, there’s a… hold still… THWAP!!! Oh. Sorry… that’s jewelry? Ummm… okay, I’ll call the medics….
February 10, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Although the etsy seller is clearly a reseller… I think the ebay seller is actually the one who stole the picture, not the other way around. Clearly they’re the same picture, but if you look there are natural looking wrinkles around the second (diamond) earring that the etsy seller is using, whereas that area on the ebay picture is veryyyy slightly blurry. Like… not-a-bad-job-using-a-photoshop-airbrush-tool blurry.
February 10, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Hmmm. By God, I think you might be right. Of course, that more likely proves that both sellers stole the same photo from a third (as yet unidentified) seller. Does the deceit ever end?
February 10, 2012 at 1:45 pm
I’ve been doing it all wrong, apparently… If I wanted to make money as a photographer, I shouldn’t be striving to take fantastic shots, but should instead be taking mediocre shots of scrabble tiles, mugs of various beverages, and blurry/shitty bokeh shots.
Who the fuck buys this shit and for what purpose? Do people really hang blurry photos of things like lights, trees and headlights up on their walls at home??
February 10, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Or shots of scrabble tiles IN mugs of various beverages.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/89811196/coffee-photograph-scrabble-tile
February 10, 2012 at 2:31 pm
I call B.S. on that photo, OFCEFE is totally not a word!
February 10, 2012 at 2:46 pm
They ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee AND ruined some scrabble tiles. All for fake art. Boooo…
February 11, 2012 at 1:39 pm
It looks more like chocolate syrup than coffee.
February 10, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I can’t like. I thought the tiles in that cup spelled FECAL for a minute. I didn’t WANT to think that, but I did.
February 10, 2012 at 1:45 pm
What I love is that you can’t even report these to Etsy anymore unless “it’s your intellectual property” or “I have ordered this item and not received it”. Fucktards. I loathe you.
February 10, 2012 at 1:47 pm
You can’t report it to Etsy if it’s your intellectual property either. They basically tell you to hire a lawyer if you feel someone is infringing on your rights.
(If I’m wrong, somebody let me know since I discovered this when trying to report someone who stole something of mine and was selling it!)
February 10, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Your hats are so sweet! May the person who stole one or more of your designs spend eternity in the naval of a diseased yak.
February 10, 2012 at 2:28 pm
..in the asshole of a diseased yak.
There, I fixed it for you.
February 10, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Moreover, may the curse of the leaky bong descend upon her/him.
February 10, 2012 at 1:45 pm
As I scrolled down, I mistakenly read it as “Book of Kelis Graphic Scarf Handkerchief”. Imagine my disappointment as I continued to scroll down…
February 10, 2012 at 1:47 pm
That would be one crazy scarf.
February 10, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Auction?
February 10, 2012 at 2:36 pm
To be fair, she also has ebay listings. Dhe must have copy/pasted the listings.
February 10, 2012 at 1:47 pm
My favorite part is that the spider cuff seller took the time to photoshop in that “diamond”. It’s not included because it doesn’t exist.
February 10, 2012 at 1:52 pm
My favorite part about that listing is the whole “enticing your desired mate into your web” bit. What a selling point!
February 10, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I don’t want my mate magically miniaturised, and stuck thrashing around on my ear web.
Oh, that’s not what they meant? They were just making an obvious, unimaginative, nonsensical and annoying pun?
February 10, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Yes! The entire goal of my life is to entice a hapless male within reach so that I may sexually use and devour him!
Women: Can’t live without them, can’t pry their venomous fangs out of your cephalothorax in time.
February 10, 2012 at 2:59 pm
OMG! I just clicked on your link on your name. You like the Nostalgia Critic too!?!
February 10, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Not invariably, but when I’m in the right mood. Specifically, the mood where I want to listen to guys yelling at me about how much they hate someone I don’t care about (or also don’t like). Sam Cornwell and the Escapist’s Yahtzee are other relevant entries in that genre.
February 10, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Removing one of the holes in the glass globe takes a lot of work! They probably had to melt it down and use their glass-blowing expertise to create a new globe. If it was only removed in Photoshop, obviously that wouldn’t be worth the extra money.
February 12, 2012 at 3:18 am
Don’t you have ANY IDEA how much hard work it takes to use the smudge, blur and heal tools in photoshop? Like seriously! That shit takes YEARS.
February 10, 2012 at 1:50 pm
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February 10, 2012 at 1:56 pm
She’s a reseller.
February 10, 2012 at 2:02 pm
She’s not the only one around here.
February 10, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Elle Moss’s photo is the one of the blurry Christmas lights. Not my style (I prefer art that doesn’t double as an optometrist’s exam), but not resold.
February 10, 2012 at 3:01 pm
That’s what I thought, she IS a real photographer, not a reseller.
February 10, 2012 at 3:57 pm
You’re right, she IS a real photographer, and she is talented
http://ellemoss.blogspot.com/
You’re also right that we should focus on the out of focus picture. Elle is NOT a reseller.
February 10, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Really? Where is she getting the photographic prints that she is selling?
February 10, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Wait, I’m confused. I assumed she was selling prints of her own work. Details, please.
February 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Elle Moss is not a reseller. I think her photograph was what was being mocked, not that she is a reseller.
February 10, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Really?
February 10, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Why the thumbs down? She’s not a reseller, she’s a photographer.
February 10, 2012 at 3:11 pm
I’m so confused.
February 10, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Glad that I am not the only one!
February 12, 2012 at 5:59 pm
I’m glad that’s cleared up.
February 10, 2012 at 1:50 pm
I do love that the $615 polyester scarf has a snag in it.
February 10, 2012 at 2:00 pm
That makes it OOAK. I defy you to find another scarf with the exact same snag.
February 10, 2012 at 2:12 pm
The price IS the snag.
February 10, 2012 at 3:48 pm
It takes some serious fucking gall to try to sell a $10 polyester scarf for $615. I’d love to track that seller to the grocery store. “OK, the cereal you wanted to buy has been marked up to $300, just for you. And the chicken is now $5,000. We knew you’d be OK with it.”
February 10, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Am I a bad person for wanting some of that tat? I would wear the spider web ear cuff, and the book of Kells scarf. Together.
No, I didn’t inherit any fashion sense, why do you ask?
February 10, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Nothing wrong with it! I love the ear cuff too. Would rather buy it from a cheapo jewellery store than someone pretending they made it in their artistic ability.
February 10, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Totally this. Totally.
February 10, 2012 at 1:56 pm
The earring is on the wrong ear!
How dare you insult the good people of Bajor!
February 10, 2012 at 6:26 pm
I was both hoping someone had mentioned Bajor and also hoping no one had so I could have been the clever one. Damn you and well played!
February 10, 2012 at 1:57 pm
If you leave the candle in the terrarium, you can re-create the Amazonian deforestation perfectly!
February 10, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Ah, it’s time to teach the kiddies about “Slash & Burn”.
February 10, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Did the seller actually think that PS’ing out the second hole on the globe then made it hers to sell?? It’s the same pic… weird
February 10, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Is that last screenshot from the movie Se7en?
February 10, 2012 at 2:18 pm
And, if it is, can I get the spiderweb earcuff as a prize for being so observant? But only if it’s the one that costs $85. And is made of solid gold. I don’t want that other cheap one.
February 10, 2012 at 2:14 pm
The scarf is almost big enough to cover the seller’s ginormous balls, which it takes to ask $600+ for a square of polyester.
February 10, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Surely you don’t mean to imply that there is anything wrong with profit? We must bear in mind that COMMUNISM KILLS PEOPLE.
February 10, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Communism doesn’t kill people, I kill people.
Wait…what were we talking about?
February 10, 2012 at 4:47 pm
You are a Ferengi reseller, aren’t you?
February 10, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Rules of Acquisition 10 and 239 are in play, so I say yes, it’s a Ferengi.
February 11, 2012 at 1:03 am
Rules 181 and 189 would seem to apply as well (?).
February 11, 2012 at 12:46 am
@lemon bombs: Good catch
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February 11, 2012 at 12:42 am
February 10, 2012 at 2:36 pm
It’s been too long between Compare and Saves! Love ‘em! Thanks for making my day!
February 10, 2012 at 3:21 pm
My Christmas lights looked like that after I fished my glasses out of the Onion dip. Not to mention the pitcher of Gimlets.
February 10, 2012 at 3:40 pm
I’m so glad the photographer splurged on quality archival paper “that produces sharp details”.
February 10, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Steampunk Convention!
February 10, 2012 at 5:58 pm
I’d tell the Book of Kells people to pog mo thoin.
February 10, 2012 at 10:01 pm
Slainte to that!
February 10, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Ooh ooh ooh! I have one of those! The Book of Kells scarf! I was going to cut it up and use it as the bodice on a dress… but I’m doing things all wrong! I should resell it in my etsy shop for over $600 and lose the integrity of my shop whilst making myself look like an ass (or more of one)! BONUS! SCORE!
February 10, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Resist! Your stuff is too awesome to be insulted by being in the same shop as this.
February 10, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Awww thanks! But check this out… mine isn’t quite like that one, so I’m thinking maybe I should ask $800. Yep, I’m on to something big here.
February 10, 2012 at 7:56 pm
You know, “Compare and Save” always gets me riled up, but there is a positive. It makes me land on Etsy and touch base with a few seller friends I have over there…some really nice people, not like these sellers who seek to majorly rip off buyers.
February 10, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Did the Compare & Save earcuff set get taken down? Or am I somehow totally missing it? Because I see no C&S earcuff pictures. Someone please rescue me from this particular confusion.
February 10, 2012 at 8:38 pm
The post was amended after someone complained that the Etsy seller may have been ripped off. We have no proof either way, so we took it down.
February 10, 2012 at 8:54 pm
And it was more fun to make us latecomers think we were insane than to give an update, right Bronc?
February 10, 2012 at 9:06 pm
I would not have commented consecutively had I not been convinced I must have hit Preview instead of Post Comment. I refreshed the browser and everything. Clearly the internet wants me to go away.
Thank you for the reply. I was so stupidly baffled.
February 11, 2012 at 12:17 pm
You’ll be hearing from my therpist. Who is also my layer. I’m suing your for ceasing and desisting without warning. Nyah.
February 10, 2012 at 8:28 pm
If there are any other latecomers to this party, do y’all see the earcuffs everyone else is talking about? Because I’m definitely a little weirded out here.
February 11, 2012 at 10:10 am
Scroll up a bit and read what Bronc said.
February 11, 2012 at 1:44 pm
I did. I posted this before his reply and after repeatedly refreshing the page without seeing my initial comment (the one above this), so I posted again. Naturally, both showed up, which was probably why Bronc replied: concern some derp was going to spam the entry with variations on the same stupid question.
February 10, 2012 at 8:59 pm
What the hell, I actually kind of like the bokeh there. It doubles as the blur of tears as I think of the spirit of Christmas. And also the year that my father left our family on Christmas Eve.
OK that actually didn’t happen, my dad’s sitting right over there.
But I still like the picture, what can I say. I think the colors are actually lovely and given that it’s just a picture of lights, seeing them…I don’t know…in fuzzy memory mode works for me somehow.
I wouldn’t pay money for it though cuz I’m a cheap motherfucker like that.
February 11, 2012 at 1:49 pm
When I look at it, my eyes just keep trying to adjust to get it in focus.
February 10, 2012 at 9:44 pm
600 bucks for polyester???? Holy shit! I have a damn gold mine in my grandma’s attic!
BRB….becoming a millionaire.
February 10, 2012 at 9:48 pm
There’s a sucker born every minute.
And they all shop on Etsy.
February 11, 2012 at 12:42 am
But people, don’t you know? Polyester is the new motherfucking SILK!!! I mean, it feels like silk, so it’s BETTER! so it HAS to cost more than silk! And lets face it, you will only find this one scarf, with a small snag towards the bottom! you cant miss this opportunity!
February 11, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Polyester is “green” silk, sparing the lives of all those innocent little silkworms. Won’t you think of the WORMS???
February 13, 2012 at 9:31 am
Oh, the worms!! Vegans would ever wear real silk, would they? NO, because the worms have not given their consent to have their sticky secretions taken and used for profit without giving the worms anything in return.
Polyester is Hipster Silk
Forget the polyester uses petroleum byproducts, thereby increasing our dependence on fossil fuel. One must think of the living worms, not the dead ones!
February 11, 2012 at 2:46 am
Haha! These are always my favorite.
February 11, 2012 at 6:51 am
Looks like the glass candle holder seller is “on vacation” now. What kind of dildo sorcery is this that I can’t even report an item when the shop’s owner has fucked off from Etsy for a while?
February 11, 2012 at 10:41 am
HA! I’ve noticed that glass “candle holder” discrepancy IRL, right here, in town! There are a couple stores around SF that sell terrariums and terrarium-supplies that sell those between $10-$15, yet I found the exact same ones downtown at–yes–CB2 for $3.
February 12, 2012 at 7:53 am
Thinking about buying one of those glass orbs, then making a fuss when it has an extra hole that isn’t in the pictures.
You can see where she rubber-stamped it out. What was even the point of that?