Oy, Robot
This is Chad:
This is Chad’s Treasury:
As the CEO of Etsy, Chad is a champion of handmade. He and his content team work tirelessly to ensure that every piece they feature is as unique as the special snowflake that created it.
See?
Etsy’s offices are in Brooklyn, but handmade is everywhere! In fact, we saw thousands of handmade robot necklaces in Times Square this weekend.
$2 each, 3 for $5.
He’s just welcoming his new overlords.
The ones based in Singapore.
May 14, 2012 at 9:33 am
His favorite materials are the ingredients of beer! OMG HA HA HA. I get it!
Oh Chad.
I think those robots are actually the crafters themselves.
May 14, 2012 at 9:38 am
No, they’re not the crafters because the necklaces don’t feature nine-year-old Asian kids.
May 14, 2012 at 9:54 am
His faves are, no doubt, hand-crafted Budweiser and Coors.
May 14, 2012 at 10:12 am
No, I’m sure it’s PBR.
May 14, 2012 at 6:49 pm
I agree. He’s got that PBR, imported-cigarette smoking Hipster look about him.
May 14, 2012 at 12:05 pm
My guess is Natty Ice.
I bet he also listens to Dane Cook.
May 14, 2012 at 1:23 pm
I was gonna guess OE. Out of a paper bag. Whilst making treasuries.
May 14, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Something tells me this guys a Pabst drinker.
May 14, 2012 at 10:13 am
Sorry that I posted basically the same thing- your comment wasn’t posted when I first viewed this page.
May 14, 2012 at 10:36 am
I’ll give you something to be sorry about!
May 14, 2012 at 11:41 am
I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
May 14, 2012 at 11:49 am
I told you I’d shoot! But you didn’t believe me! Why didn’t you believe me?
May 14, 2012 at 11:57 am
The little critters of nature…they don’t know that they’re ugly.
May 14, 2012 at 2:23 pm
…and that’s funny.
May 14, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Thats very funny! A fly marrying a bumble bee!
May 14, 2012 at 3:13 pm
This is a song about a whale!
May 14, 2012 at 3:25 pm
NO!! This is a song about being happy!
May 14, 2012 at 8:15 pm
*pounds helmet with hammer*
May 15, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Sparkin and a kissin eh? If you ain’t the mother and father of all lies!
May 14, 2012 at 10:20 am
As a homebrewer, myself, I love that his favorite materials are beer ingredients.
May 14, 2012 at 2:33 pm
(Actually I also liked that. Oh well. Some people could say my sense of humour is too nerdy.)
May 14, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Except they’re not the ingredients of beer. Malt is short for malted barley – they’re not two separate things. So it’s the things you would list of you wanted people to THINK you knew about beer, but you don’t really know enough about beer to fake it.
September 18, 2012 at 9:54 am
Although you can add both malted barley and malt extract, which I have seen referred to as “malt,” to beer. But for all we know he could be gluing those things to found objects.
May 14, 2012 at 9:36 am
I am not sure about this, but I think that hops, barley, and malt are used to make beer. Which would explain Etsy- everyone’s drunk.
May 14, 2012 at 9:37 am
It doesn’t explain Etsy unless there’s an alternative way to mix them together to get crack.
May 14, 2012 at 9:53 am
Does that explain why I have drunk more hops, barley and malt since I became an Etsy seller?
May 14, 2012 at 11:51 am
We’re all drunk here too. Maybe he’s trying to handcraft his own beer…this explains much.
May 14, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Well, he’s getting it handcrafted. From Singapore.
What?
May 14, 2012 at 9:36 am
Way to lead by example, meat bag.
May 14, 2012 at 9:47 am
His current treasury contains one additional robot charm, by birdzNbeez: http://www.etsy.com/listing/44883505/steampunk-robot
Must be a popular design, since another etsy seller has made the same thing by hand as well (though this one is “enchanted”): http://www.etsy.com/listing/66828462/bronze-robot-keychain-enchanted
May 14, 2012 at 9:50 am
It’s steampunk!
May 14, 2012 at 10:31 am
Yes, and the first one is authentic, and one of a kind!
May 15, 2012 at 6:33 am
And of course, you really want “vintage” movements in your watch – they work the best!
May 14, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Now I’m tempted to message her with questions about the enchantment. I can’t go buying a necklace that will wake up in the night and shave my eyebrows or reformat my hard drive.
May 14, 2012 at 9:37 am
I want to give that Alicia Lee a big wet sloppy kiss. No tongue, I promise.
May 14, 2012 at 10:00 am
WOO! I’ll take it. Tongue and all.
May 14, 2012 at 9:37 am
I’m sure there’s at least one thing Chad ensures is done by hand
May 14, 2012 at 9:40 am
…I always wondered how Tug McGraw got his nickname…
May 14, 2012 at 9:48 am
His term as CEO is sure to have a happy ending.
May 14, 2012 at 10:55 am
As the Choad Elongation Operative of his own staff, I’m sure his ending will be happy.
May 14, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Heh. You said choad.
May 14, 2012 at 10:06 am
Well now, he does have a self-proclaimed reputation for being a master debater, but I think he’s just wanking our chains.
May 14, 2012 at 10:53 am
He may be a master debater, but I’m a cunning linguist.
May 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
Pfft, I’m sure there’s a legion of cupcakes eager to stroke the Dickerson…
May 14, 2012 at 9:39 am
How professional is it to admit that your favorite thing in the world is beer in such a way?
I guess it’s more professional than listing “weed, LSD” in there.
May 14, 2012 at 12:36 pm
I’d prefer to see him list LSD, cause if that was the case, he would actually show some freaking creativity!
May 14, 2012 at 9:41 am
He’s out of touch. Neither barn wood nor bible pages in sight!
May 14, 2012 at 9:41 am
Who decided robots are Jewish, anyway?
Bot Mitzvah:
(sorry if this is a duplicate, it looks like the internet ate my last attempt at this post)
May 14, 2012 at 10:02 am
I suppose they could be Unimatrixian, or Roman Cathode, or Press-one-for-customer-service-byterian, or Methodicalist, or Geek Orthodox, or Angle-can.
May 14, 2012 at 10:32 am
But oddly, even if you program a robot to be a Scientologist, it just won’t fall for it. They may be unthinking machines, but they aren’t idiots.
May 14, 2012 at 10:40 am
…and they short circuit the e-meters…
May 14, 2012 at 10:13 am
Thumbed up with Robot Devil’s hands.
(I only borrowed them!)
May 14, 2012 at 11:09 am
It was either something the Robbi downloaded from the Torahbyte or because of this song:
Droidal droidal droidal,
They made me out of brass
And anyone who doubts it
can kiss my shiny metal ass
May 14, 2012 at 9:42 am
I see what you did there.
May 14, 2012 at 9:45 am
Hops, barley, malt…
Such a cloying “hey there – I’m a cool CEO” self-reference.
If this were the 1980s, he’d be the guy at the ad agency with the detachable pony tail who insists everyone call him “wild man.”
In the 90s he would have been photographed in his water view office wearing pressed jeans, no socks, and carrying a wiffle ball bat while standing next to his pinball machine.
May 14, 2012 at 10:03 am
I bet he plays with the office pet mascot and makes sure their headquarters is full of ‘fun’ crap like bright colored furniture and arcade games for staffers to play when they’re not too busy shutting down negative threads. DON’T YOU SEE THEY’RE COOL PEOPLE NOT SOME INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX RUN BY ‘THE MAN’!
May 14, 2012 at 9:46 am
Bite my shiny metal daffodil.
May 14, 2012 at 10:17 am
Antiquing?
May 15, 2012 at 2:18 am
Distressing?
May 14, 2012 at 9:49 am
goddamnit etsy. why can’t you be good?
May 14, 2012 at 9:56 am
Could they be anymore obvious? I mean, really? They really just aren’t trying anymore, now that the cat is out of the collective bag.
May 14, 2012 at 9:57 am
Come on guys, you know there is no calling out in the forums! You’re like totally making my cupcakes sad and stuff. Handmade means a lot of different things to different people and the guys at Etsy are doing their best to make sure the starving children in China have enough to do during the day! They are like totally helping! Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go upcycle a Gee’s bend quilt into some totes adorbs pillows for my reclaimed futon!!
May 14, 2012 at 10:07 am
Technically, they didn’t specify WHOSE hands are making these items. Starving children also have hands, or at least I really hope they do. I do think it’s really rude of them to keep talking about yummy and creamy in front of the starving children though.
May 14, 2012 at 10:42 am
Wow, you do that so well it is scarey. I can almost see you in the “vintage” polyester shirt and oversized glasses, with a whymsical, upcycled vulva necklace.
May 14, 2012 at 11:01 am
I prefer my vulvas showroom new.
May 14, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Still has that “new vulva smell?”
May 14, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Package that along with the Pink Button crap, and you have one hell of a bachelorette party gift bag.
May 14, 2012 at 2:43 pm
We can change the size of that smell too!
May 14, 2012 at 9:58 am
Is Chad a … (DUH DUH DUH) BROGRAMMER?
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/the-rise-of-the-brogrammer
May 14, 2012 at 10:09 am
Chad doesn’t drink Natty Light though. He drinks what he thinks is “craft beer” except it turns out they’re actually made by Coors.
May 14, 2012 at 10:15 am
Or, you know, PBRs if he’s just thirsty.
May 14, 2012 at 10:24 am
Aha! This Gawker Poll totally makes sense now.
May 14, 2012 at 9:58 am
Shit, just the name Chad Dickerson makes me want to kick someone in the nuts. Twice.
May 14, 2012 at 10:15 am
After reading this poetry-quoting corporate gobbledygook, you’ll want to kick him a third time. And a fourth. And a fifth. And a…oh you’ll get the picture.
http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/notes-from-chad-funding-etsys-future/
I love the “we value craftmanship” and “we keep it real, always” bullets.
May 14, 2012 at 10:16 am
I’ll hold him down for you.
May 14, 2012 at 10:22 am
I take care of his buddies Chet and Biff.
May 14, 2012 at 10:23 am
*I’ll
May 14, 2012 at 10:40 am
If we’re going to muscle this sad fuck I want in too.
May 14, 2012 at 11:54 am
I’ll hold your coats.
May 14, 2012 at 1:36 pm
I’ll keep the getaway car running. As soon as I finish hotglueing all these OOAK octopuses, owls and robots to it. Upcycling!
May 14, 2012 at 11:59 pm
I’ll cheer. And take pictures!
May 14, 2012 at 10:45 am
Any volunteers for Frank and Joe? You know that those “chums” stick together.
May 14, 2012 at 7:01 pm
You want me to take out The Hardy Boys? I’m not sure I can do that, boss.
May 14, 2012 at 10:19 am
According to the feedback he has left for other people, Chad loves robots (duh), bags, soap, things for his desk and something that was “Very tasty — these went really quickly.” I’m guessing the last item was a tray of pot brownies because you’d have to be completely stoned to exist in that office environment.
May 14, 2012 at 11:58 am
I visited their offices for open craft night a few years ago, just after they moved. It looks like a giant kindergarten, and they were all playing “office.”
I bet if you looked in their fridge, it’s loaded with apple juice and ice-packs for
butthurtbooboos.May 15, 2012 at 2:20 am
If he loves robots, they might get quite rusty in parts.
May 14, 2012 at 10:43 am
It certainly is a clear indication that his parents hated him. Personally I’ve never trusted Chads since they caused such a problem in Florida.
May 14, 2012 at 10:47 am
Ha!
May 14, 2012 at 10:59 am
Hang them all!
May 14, 2012 at 11:59 am
Or dangle them, at least.
May 14, 2012 at 10:45 am
That name sounds like something from “Dr. Strangelove” (Like Bat Guano, and General Turgidsen)
May 14, 2012 at 10:47 am
Im sure his first name is missing an A……
May 14, 2012 at 10:52 am
An O, A DAMNED O….. AKA choad!
May 14, 2012 at 12:00 pm
I dunno…Chaad just kicks the pretension up a notch.
May 14, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Speaking for myself and my friends Gwillium, Thom, Apple, Whit, Thain, Rebekah, Zander, and Arris, I must disagree.
May 14, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Monkey33, I’m a Rebekah. I love my K.
I think it may be a regional thing, though. I’ve met more Rebekahs than Rebecca’s.
S
May 14, 2012 at 5:30 pm
I stand corrected!
May 14, 2012 at 10:01 am
Uh oh, page won’t load. Something’s happening in Cupcakeville. And a million thanks to HK for keeping us updated on all the fuckery so there’s no escaping the wrath.
May 14, 2012 at 10:01 am
Not to be an overly-pedantic ass (which I am), but “malt” refers to the product of “malting” a cereal grain.
Barley is a cereal grain.
What I’m getting at, here, is he’s basically listed barley twice.
May 14, 2012 at 10:07 am
Oh, and the difference between a smartass and a dumbass is knowledge.
May 14, 2012 at 10:22 am
And if he’s not also using yeast and water he’s just making something like horse feed. Which is Step 1 for making horse shit so there we go.
May 14, 2012 at 10:41 am
Oh yeah! I forgot to mention my favorite organism on this here planet, Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Cute li’l guy, isn’t he?
May 14, 2012 at 10:47 am
actually, yes he is a cute little guy. I can totes see him done up as a plushie or a couch cushion.
What horrible horrible disease does he cause?
May 14, 2012 at 10:53 am
Alcoholism? He makes beer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae
May 14, 2012 at 10:57 am
That’s yeast, PBCGE. I have a plushie made from it, actually. It’s not from Etsy, sadly.
And you KNOW what horrible itchy trouble he can cause.
May 14, 2012 at 10:57 am
And bread too, I guess.
May 14, 2012 at 11:16 am
Already been done:![]()
Theres a huge line of these plushie microbes. I know for a face that biologists love them.
We used to have a herpes one in lab and would throw it at each other to “give it” to people.
May 14, 2012 at 11:17 am
Hmm my img didnt src. Here is the link then: http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/files/images/productdetails/beerandbread.jpg
May 14, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Check thinkgeek.com for all your plushie microbe needs!
May 14, 2012 at 10:47 am
Needs a mustache.
May 14, 2012 at 10:48 am
The situation here is ripe for googly eyes. Curse my lack of ‘shoppin’ skillz.
May 14, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Reminds me of Moyashimon
I have 2 differently sized Aspergillus niger plushies :E :E
May 15, 2012 at 12:16 am
Which does explain an awful lot, no?
May 15, 2012 at 8:38 am
Maybe he uses malt syrup instead, if he’s going the extract way. Or maybe he uses malted wheat AND barley. Depends upon what style beer he’s imagining he’s making. Maybe he adds maltodextrin. “Malt” could refer to anything.
HE wants us to think he likes beer, because beer is the new hipster “thing”. Real beer lovers, the ones who were making it before the hipsters graduated from POKEMON cards to fixies and fedoras, tend to be sort of geeky guys with goatees and patient wives. I am a patient wife of my goateed-sporting beer maker, and I can tell you that Robots wearing sombreros and riding dinosaurs are far from cool in his mind.
Perhaps he’s talking about malted milk balls. Chad likes balls, you know.
I think he’s making some sort of crazy hipster milkshake, frankly. He probably adds bacon to it, because he’s so hip.
May 14, 2012 at 10:02 am
At this point, I think it’s safe to assume Etsy is just trolling all of us for lulz.
May 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
Troll level: Cupcake.
May 14, 2012 at 10:03 am
Keepin’ the Dick in Dickerson, eh? Whatever, those little child labor slaves surely get a beer at the end of their shifts.
May 14, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Ha! Love this
May 14, 2012 at 10:05 am
May 14, 2012 at 7:59 pm
My thoughts exactly.
May 14, 2012 at 10:05 am
For. Shame. Shame on that man who just claimed that Etsy is so super committed to handmade and integrity and working so hard to make sure THIS EXACT THING NEVER HAPPENS. I hope he meant this:
http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2012/notes-from-chad-6/
Now I want a beer.
October 24, 2012 at 5:00 pm
No shit.. what a terd!
May 14, 2012 at 10:10 am
FWIW that treasury is from 2010. Perhaps the robot necklace was handmade, then they were miraculously discovered and sold their design? Yeah, that’s it!
I just noticed they also have a pink mustache necklace in their shop. I’ll bet CupcakeLand loves that shit.
May 14, 2012 at 10:18 am
They’ve also got the octopus.
May 14, 2012 at 10:12 am
I’d call him a cunt, but cunts at least are useful and have a purpose!
May 14, 2012 at 10:17 am
Yes. that would be insulting to cunts everywhere. To cunt jewelry, cunt cakes, cunt fashion, cunt sculpture….
Now that I think of it, go ahead and call him a cunt.
May 14, 2012 at 10:46 am
Cunt cakes? I think we have one of those pans from the 70s here…
Oh wait, that’s bundt cake. Never mind.
May 14, 2012 at 10:49 am
Cunts have a multipurpose!
May 14, 2012 at 11:33 am
We should all be aware of that, especially this close to Mother’s Day.
May 14, 2012 at 10:54 am
“I would call you a cunt, but you lack both the warmth and the depth.”
May 14, 2012 at 11:48 am
That would make a marvelous cross-stitch.
May 14, 2012 at 1:10 pm
CraftyJester, I think I love you.
May 14, 2012 at 10:12 am
I smell a protest treasury coming on . . . .
May 14, 2012 at 10:21 am
Yep.
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/ODI3MDN8MjcyMjgxNjM5Mg/i-robot
May 14, 2012 at 10:39 am
I see the mighty OOAK tree has yielded another shitload of acorns.
May 14, 2012 at 10:55 am
Remove the watch face and it’s steampunk!
May 14, 2012 at 11:06 am
You know, I find most of my favorite shops here on Regretsy comments. Making a treasury shows such a commitment to the handmade ideal. Just…lovely.
May 14, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Oh oh – the page I am looking for no longer exists! Screen cap, anyone?
May 14, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Wow, I finally got to see one! I’m usually too late to the party — I always get the stitch awry page because I get there just after the Cupcake Brigade has already had their morning stroll through the site to check for the protest treasuries and calling out in forums. You can see why they have so little time to do any research on their front page artistes.
I’ll see if I can handle this one, but I promise nothing–I suck at HTML.
May 14, 2012 at 6:39 pm
This is beautiful. I shed actual, sparkling, creamy cupcake tears over it.
May 15, 2012 at 5:27 am
Thanks for capping it for me. I’ve never actually had one of my treasuries deleted before. It’s a proud moment!
May 15, 2012 at 7:19 am
You are quite welcome, Sophisticated Lady. I even managed to screencap the comments before it got Cupcaked, but unfortunately Photoshop shrunk the (admittedly rather large) jpeg down to the size of a nickel, so I thought posting it would be pointless. Bummer.
May 14, 2012 at 10:14 am
The main ingredient in PBR is Irony.
May 15, 2012 at 8:48 am
The main ingredient in PBR is piss.
May 14, 2012 at 10:17 am
This is off-topic, but every time I see a pic of HeyMichelle, I get queasy and want her to take a fucking shower. Anyone else? Anyone? Anyone?
May 14, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Why is the subject of nausea off topic?
(FWIW, me too. I don’t know if it’s the salute or the obsequious kowtowing. Or maybe it’s just the hat.)
May 14, 2012 at 4:13 pm
It’s that she looks like a fucking dirty hippie.
May 14, 2012 at 6:40 pm
It’s the hat.
May 14, 2012 at 10:18 am
I may have finally left a comment on Etsy that will get me escorted to the door, where I will have to surrender my keys and turn out my pockets. Not that that’s ever happened to me before.
May 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
Very curious now…what was your comment?
May 14, 2012 at 3:13 pm
“AnotherCountry says: 5 hours ago
Right now there are 685 views and yet no admirers for this treasury. I would have thought that by now some lickspittle fawning craftard would have tried kissing up to the Chadster by “hearting” it.”
May 15, 2012 at 2:11 pm
It’s still there, so you don’t get the street cred.
May 14, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Someone has to complain first.
May 14, 2012 at 10:18 am
Damnit, Chad! Stop ruining robots for me!
May 14, 2012 at 10:23 am
Chads definition of handmade is something made that has hands
“The arms will swing up and down if you let them” Let’s hope they swing and knock some sense into Chad
May 14, 2012 at 10:26 am
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May 14, 2012 at 10:54 am
You’re funny.
May 14, 2012 at 11:06 am
But if you are the CEO of etsy and make a treasury shouldn’t you make very very sure you are not promoting resellers? Idk, seems logical to me.
May 14, 2012 at 11:21 am
The resellers of this import crap have been on Etsy for 4-5 years now. It is possible that Chad got the Marketplace Integrity Staff to vet that treasury before it was saved for public view. Or at least some of the crew at Etsy who choose front page treasuries.
May 14, 2012 at 11:44 am
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May 14, 2012 at 11:51 am
It’s just like it, but it’s not.
You got thumbs-downed for defending douchebaggery.
If anyone wants, they can *still* read the comment.
How it’s not like Etsy: they delete the entire thread. They end the comments. Please note, after your thumbsdown, you still can write more stuff.
Welcome to the Thunderdome.
May 14, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls… Dyin’ time’s here.
May 15, 2012 at 9:24 am
i think i love you
May 14, 2012 at 11:51 am
Oh, the hypocrisy!
May 14, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Or, did you mean, “Oy, the hypocrisy!” ?
May 15, 2012 at 7:22 am
Or “I, the hypocrisy!”?
May 14, 2012 at 12:18 pm
May 14, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Your comment got voted down via the democratic process. You said something dumb, people responded.
That’s not how Etsy works at all. Nice try with the false equivalency, though.
May 14, 2012 at 12:13 pm
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May 14, 2012 at 12:22 pm
And it’s just SO MUCH MORE USEFUL for you to tell us that. Boy, have we been schooled.
May 14, 2012 at 12:26 pm
May 14, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Also, this:
May 14, 2012 at 10:39 pm
My Little Pony’s sure do like being colored on, apparently. Oh, my.
May 15, 2012 at 12:06 am
mods are asleep
Post pones!!!
May 14, 2012 at 3:03 pm
As the CEO of a company, it’s a major part of his job to, y’know, represent the company. He doesn’t get a bye on representing it in a really asinine way, no matter how it happened. The buck stops at the little robot.
That the little robot so perfectly encapsulates so much of Etsy’s hypocrisy and elevates this tiny thing from “stupid and unprofessional” to “endlessly mockable” is just gravy.
May 15, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Okay, Schlockiana, so you’re saying that the CEO of Etsy shouldn’t be accountable for ALL his actions in said capacity?
I suppose you felt sorry for Kenneth Lay and Bernie Madoff too. I’m sure they were just misunderstood and didn’t think before they acted as well.
Let’s pass the cupcakes and beer and we’ll sing Kumbaya and forget about it, M’kay?
May 16, 2012 at 8:31 pm
LEAVE…BERNIE…*ALONE*! *weeps*
May 14, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Funny and high on cupcake fumes
May 14, 2012 at 10:28 am
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May 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
It doesn’t say “supplies” anywhere, either. There isn’t one bit of assembling or modification in this piece. Featuring this item is a sad joke. Especially when it’s the CEO of the company doing it.
Your examples of paint and yarn not being handmade are ludicrous. Those are supplies. They are used to make other things.
That is where the line is drawn.
May 15, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Okay, so I didn’t read carefully. I thought MAYBE they put the thing on the chain themselves. Consider me spanked.
May 14, 2012 at 11:07 am
No one has any complaints about supplies. You aren’t required to make your own paint or spin your own yarn (though many people do).
But this watch isn’t listed in the Supplies category. It’s listed in the Handmade category.
Absolutely nothing has been done to alter it. It comes out of the package like this, on this exact chain, from China. Is taking it out of the plastic the “handmade” part?
May 14, 2012 at 11:28 am
This robot watch can still be bought wholesale. And the merchant shops on AliExpress often have photos showing exactly how your robot pendant watch on its chain will be shipped to you — in its little baggie.
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/535920103-Free-Shipping-Antique-Bronze-Retro-Vintage-Cartoon-Robot-Pocket-Watch-Pendant-Necklace-Can-Mix-order-Chain-wholesalers.html
Straight from the wholesaler to the Etsy seller.
May 14, 2012 at 11:28 am
I found an even worse one the other night. They took this exact same necklace, ordered from Alibaba, and then added one of those little metal “Made with Love” tags on a jumpring to it. How much do you want to bet that Etsy considers them adding that tag to it enough to make it handmade?
May 14, 2012 at 11:37 am
Now that’s a handjob!
May 14, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Unfortunately, that does make it “handmade” by Etsy standards.
May 15, 2012 at 8:53 am
It’s hard to get worse than “if Chad would just leave his Earl Grey tower and head to Midtown to see street vendors selling this crap, Etsy would stop skullfucking us.” Seriously, these *particular* robots were like 15 minutes out of his way. I’m sure the vendor’s cousin was selling the same damn things only a block away from Etsy HQ.
May 15, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Okay, so I’m not afraid to say when I’m wrong. I didn’t read the description carefully and gave them the benefit of the doubt thinking they had at least put the robot on the chain. Sorry! On the other hand, you didn’t read my comment carefully either. The examples I was citing were paintings and knitted items, not the supplies that made them. I guess “can’t we all just love each other” isn’t going to be this blog’s mantra.
May 15, 2012 at 3:41 pm
I am so sick of that faux-nalogy.
Any craftard can take Made in China crap and put it on a chain. It’s not handmade by any stretch of the imagination, even if it IS “Etsy legal.”
And the fact that they are buying it on the chain and selling it as is, MAKES THEM A RESELLER.
If I lay out robot charms, chains, beads and findings on a table, and tell a group of people to make something with it, the finished items will be remarkably similar to the source materials, won’t they?
Lay some yarn and a crochet hooks or knitting needles on a table and tell a group of people to have at it and what will you see? Vastly different items, probably none the same, and certainly unrecognizable from the raw materials used.
Or how about canvases, paints, and paintbrushes?
Or sewing machines, fabric, needles and thread?
If you don’t get the point you deserve the shit Etsy is ladling into your mouth.
October 25, 2012 at 7:01 am
I agree ~ an an artist at Etsy who only sells what I make from scratch, ie; handmade art I am continually appalled at the resold crap I have to compete with at Etsy.
I also make jewelry, and while some of my parts ( the beads, the amulets, findings) are not “made by me” the creation is completely not a vague replica of a resold item. I do make some pieces that are just assembled, and I sell those cheap at shows only. They do not appear in my shop nor will they ever, cuz they simply are something for the kiddos to buy with their 10 bucks while mommy and daddy shop in my booth. In my artistic realm, they DO NOT belong in my Etsy shop at all!!
May 16, 2012 at 8:34 pm
There has to be a line drawn somewhere.
Artists don’t need to draw their own lines, either. They can probably get some at Hobby Lobby.
May 14, 2012 at 10:32 am
Wow, they’re really mean over there on the Etsy forums. All I did was ask for the number for Oriental Trading Company. Now I’m all sad-facey.
See?
May 14, 2012 at 10:51 am
it’s orientaltrading.com I think. Where else can you get cheap crap for kid’s birthday parties??
May 14, 2012 at 10:57 am
Now I’m all blank-facey.
See?
May 16, 2012 at 8:37 pm
I also think it’s useful for cat toys. Like $2 for 1000 of something they’re just going to wreck or lose, anyway. OTC FTW.
May 14, 2012 at 10:40 am
I am laughing my ass off that the first item has been renewed today
May 14, 2012 at 10:41 am
Oops, I used a smiley. It was an accident, I swear!
May 14, 2012 at 10:43 am
CHAD’S OFFICE
Chad is “changing the world”! One bathtub of booze at a time.
May 14, 2012 at 10:50 am
Aww, you got booze in yours? All I got in my bathtub was a high-as-shit lawyer:
I think he’s Samoan.
May 14, 2012 at 10:48 am
Chad’s like the Miles Drentell of Etsy. Only not as interesting.
May 14, 2012 at 10:49 am
I joined Etsy in January to sell my crafts so my husband and I can raise money for our international adoption. Though I’ve been a fan of Regretsy for years and know the site has problems, I figured this would be the easiest way to get my stuff out there. I had mostly pleasant experiences at first, but the deeper I get in this mess, the more pissed off I become. They seriously do not even try to stop resellers. For instance, I found a shop two weeks ago that sells half a dozen books (mass produced, readily available at Amazon and Walmart), listing them as “handmade”, and some other random garbage. I reported each of the books to Etsy, along with links to their pages on Amazon, and they never took them down. I reported them again three days ago- they’re still up. They just don’t give a crap.
I considered making a treasury of *just* those stupid octopus lockets, to see if anyone would notice. I doubt it would make a difference, though.
May 14, 2012 at 10:53 am
there have been so many of those you can make a treasury of treasury treasuries.
May 14, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Can you? Make a treasury of treasury treasuries, I mean? That would be fractally awesome.
May 14, 2012 at 1:20 pm
THIS! I just wanted to ask you if I could send your comment to a blogger I know. I am trying to bring to his attention the whole Etsy b-corp status thing, and he is a blogger that has linked to regretsy in the past and has millions of readers so I hope to blow this thing way out there. I highly recommend you take in the value of your personal experience, and find some way to share it with a bigger audience… BTW it is Andrew Sullivan who I am writing to. If you know of him, I highly suggest you send a personal message because he often features readers opinions on his blog, especially spirited ones… ESPECIALLY ones regarding issues he has just brought up. He JUST featured the whole handmade craze today this very morning, so please either let me copy paste this and send it to him or you email to himself. I have a good feeling that the more people bang pots about this, especially to the king of bloggers himself, you might find a result that is surprisingly satisfying.
May 14, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Please send your opinion to dailydish.email@gmail.com
(Attn Andrew Sullivan re: Etsy B-corp status)
I have just finished composing my own letter to this prominent blogger. .he really loves the personal touches though and the fact that you started crafting to generate money for an actual charity is really noteworthy.
Here is a small exerpt of what I have written to Andrew just now, lets really take the opportunity now and let our voices be heard!
” The B-Corp status, in my opinion and in Ms. Killers, is not deserved. If it were, Etsy would spend a lot more time at the “cleaners” as it were. I especially feel strongly about this, because Etsy is such a large company that they are now being held up as an equivalent to Patagonia, which gives me a bad taste in my mouth. Its like saying fake crab meat is equal to real crab meat. Patagonia is the pioneer of the “be the change” standards that the B-corp designation is all about…”
May 14, 2012 at 10:55 am
I think The Only Sane Person in the World needs to have an intervention with Chad.
He’s obviously an idiot, and a huge tool, and probably full of himself. Sort of Patrick Bateman without the charm.
May 14, 2012 at 11:07 am
I respectfully disagree… the infantile “we don’t hafta listen to you if we don’t wanna an’ we don’t wanna lalalalalalalalala…” response to most valid reports of TOS violations makes me think the tool is rather miniscule.
May 14, 2012 at 10:58 am
Lorraine Weller says:
“It was two years ago! Would you give him a break? Do we seriously have to terrorize anyone who puts a resold thing into a treasury? Go through proper channels, tell people that the shop there is a reseller. This is not a valid or useful form of protest that will get us noticed. Sorry, Chad.”
Dear Lorraine,
Did you notice that THIS IS THE CEO? Who is supposed to, oh, I don’t know, UNDERSTAND THE RULES OF THE COMPANY HE’S RUNNING?
And yeah, I’m pretty sure it will get noticed, at least more than reporting individual items, because that sure as hell doesn’t work.
May 14, 2012 at 11:00 am
I am Chad. I am an admin. I cannot call mass produced items handmade? This does not compute! This does not compute! (sizzle of mental synapses frying).
May 14, 2012 at 11:04 am
Um… I love robots. I think the treasury is seriously awesome.. I’m bummed the Lady Gaga Bot is sold…
… but I think the CEO of Etsy being unable to recognize mass-produced shit that blatantly defies Etsy’s TOUs, regardless of how loosely they choose to interpret them, is beyond batshit stupid.
I mean… I can’t even… Etsy, WTF?
Also, I’d buy that cheap-ass robot necklace, because I think it’s adorable. But not on Etsy. On the street corner, where it’s sold for $2 and nobody pretends to give a shit about handmade artisans.
May 14, 2012 at 11:14 am
I think the Lady Gaga robot is so cute. Bummed it’s sold too!
May 14, 2012 at 12:47 pm
http://theawesomerobots.com
Actually handmade and adorable!
May 14, 2012 at 3:48 pm
They are wonderful! Too too cute!!
May 14, 2012 at 11:07 am
If you search supplies on etsy for “robot pendant” there are a number of those robots for sale.
So..maybe putting it on a chain is what makes it hand made? $4 without the chain…but when it’s “handmade” and put on a chain the price jumps to $24! You pay top dollar for craftsmanship on etsy!
May 14, 2012 at 11:24 am
HK just made a comment that these robots come with the chain directly from China…so they didn’t even put a chain on it!
May 14, 2012 at 11:34 am
That’s right! The chain clasp is often too big to fit through the loop or bail on the pendant. These items are factory assembled and packaged. Most resellers on Etsy never show the chain’s clasp, just the pendant.
May 14, 2012 at 11:42 am
Wow…there really isn’t any way to justify it then is there?
May 14, 2012 at 11:19 am
So, That shop w/ is still going strong….3 years of selling mass produced sh*t. That is a pretty successful Etsy reseller shop! Holy smokes!
http://www.etsy.com/people/Beadix?ref=ls_profile
What crap!
And totally promoted by the CEO of Etsy!
May 14, 2012 at 11:29 am
Favorite Materials:
Hops, barley, and malt
I don’t know how I missed this particular slice of lameness before. What a tool.
He might as well have said “Favorite Holiday: 420!”
May 14, 2012 at 11:43 am
Favorite Time of Day: “Beer-thirty!”
May 14, 2012 at 12:30 pm
I bet he has a needlepoint pillow in his office that says “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere!”
May 14, 2012 at 12:35 pm
I dare any CEO of a company that is not a brewery to put that on their public-viewable profile. What an immature twat.
May 14, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Let’s all write the producers of UNDERCOVER BOSS and nominate Chad
May 14, 2012 at 11:31 am
They’re already on a chain though. I guess the handmade part is when you click on the “contact supplier” link.
May 14, 2012 at 11:35 am
HK and BD,
I love you. I just fucking love you.
May 14, 2012 at 11:36 am
I just knew you’d love this one, April. My fat jealous ass almost keeled over in my chair when I found it. The worst part is, I found it because someone asked in the forums if Chad Dickerson reads his convoes, and he decided to answer in that thread, and after he showed up, suddenly everyone went from bashing him to “Oh my god, Chad, you’re so awesome! I can’t believe you’re in here talking to us losers! Can I have your babies?!?” (Okay, maybe not EXACTLY what they said, but might as well have been.) He’s not a goddamn celebrity, he’s an asshole who is more than happy to take your money made off of handmade goods and use it to promote mass produced garbage!
May 14, 2012 at 11:46 am
Etsy started out as a site for hand made and hand crafted. But if anyone has looked at their mission it says not a damn thing about hand made.
“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.”
May 14, 2012 at 12:17 pm
More fun? Does that mean they sent foozball tables and Segways over to the
factoriescollectives for thelittle childrenartisans to play with?May 14, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Well that isn’t true actually. The title of the paragraph you just quoted is “Etsy is the world’s handmade marketplace.” So..yeah…
May 14, 2012 at 8:14 pm
The very same originating companies that on alibaba say they can deliver 2,000 to 10,000 items a day are not within my definition of “very-very small”, unless they mean munchkins. But that may just be me thinking they don’t work very-very fast. After all, for 2,000 a day, that’s only 100 completed pieces per hour in a 20 hour workday. Piece of (cup)cake.
May 15, 2012 at 12:12 am
The Chinese slave labor kids are small, does that count?
May 18, 2012 at 6:31 pm
They need the small fingers to do the delicate stitching.
May 14, 2012 at 11:56 am
I am not quite sure, because the damn pic is so small, but I think Chad made a mistake and actually looked at the camera.
May 14, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Hi, my name is Chad
and you’ve just been had.
May 14, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Oh god, Hello Michelle still has the same profile pic…
May 14, 2012 at 2:18 pm
So the treasury is called welcoming our new overlords and it features a reseller. Is this the CEO’s way of saying etsy is now ruled by resellers?
May 18, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Well, I did notice that the Etsy banner on his “Steampunk Robot” says:
“Welcome to Etsy, where you can buy over 10 million unique handmade and vintage items from over
800,000 independent, creative businesses in over 150 countries.”
From 800k businesses, no mention of “artists”! Etsy should just rename itself to Reselly or something….
May 14, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Chad = Natty Ice, ultimate frisbee, Teva sandals, Abercrombie & Fitch logo wear, and Jack Johnson. Dickerson = I drifted off before I got to the “erson.”
May 14, 2012 at 2:49 pm
i don’t know but it seems like every chad i come across is a real douchenozzle. I bet this one is Hipster Chad, not to be confused with Jock Chad, Frat Chad, etc.
Are there any cools Chads out there? I’d like to meet you.
May 14, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I think this may be one of those names that’s just a self-fulfilling prophesy.
May 14, 2012 at 2:53 pm
I realize this is not the point, but I would totally buy one of those robot necklaces for $2.
May 14, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Dude, I am so with you! And $2 each is way cheaper than I saw them for! The cheapest I saw was $10! (The most was $20!). Seriously, needs to get in the crappy watch importing business!
May 14, 2012 at 4:23 pm
His initials are C.D.?
Right, I knew it. That’s really Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler.
May 14, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Do NOT malign CMOTD! At least HE has scruples. He’ll sell them to you for $25.
May 14, 2012 at 6:49 pm
Let me guess: Genuine almost-second-hand scruples, from 100% pure scrues?
May 14, 2012 at 7:25 pm
You got it in one!
May 14, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I was just watching the last episode of “Girls” and giggled when I saw that Hanna was wearing a similar watch necklace, but with an owl. I’m pretty sure I recognized it from one of the Regretsy math features.
May 14, 2012 at 5:03 pm
i kinda like the treasury, not as handmade shit but as robot shit
May 14, 2012 at 5:47 pm
not only that, during my increasingly exhausted misspent youth–over twenty years ago–i bought a version of that robot necklace there [only it wasnt on a necklace & it was on silver. other than that it was virtually identical]. i got it at–i dont remember the name any more–but that little junk store attached to what was once soap plant & wacko & the little clothing store they had, on melrose. or maybe i bought it at the little clothing store. somewhere there, when life was bright & new & full of dreadful possibility–& long before etsy was half a twinkle in the parents’ of etsy’s owners’ eyes.
May 14, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Officially, Chad is a failed state:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad
May 14, 2012 at 9:01 pm
A simple Etsy search reveals… they’ve multiplied! We’re being taken over!!!! Robot clocks have taken over the steampunk octopi!!! http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?q=robot%20clock&view_type=gallery&ship_to=ZZ&min=0&max=0
May 14, 2012 at 9:06 pm
I take great comfort in realizing that “Chad Dickerson” translates, in third-grade taunting, to “Chode Dicksucker”.
INTEREST IN BEING KING OF CRAFTARDS STARTS YOUNG
May 15, 2012 at 9:18 am
English to Bullshit:
“Welcoming our new overlords” =
“Suck it, Etsy sellers. We here at Etsy allow resellers because they pay us a pretty penny. So fuck you and the robot you road in on.”
May 15, 2012 at 9:56 am
You can even follow Chad on twitter….@chaddickerson…
May 15, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Holy shiznit! I need to stop MAKING childrens clothing and accessories and jump on that robot train like birdzNbeez. I wanna charge $26 for a necklace I bought for 25¢.
That the fuck am I thinking? Geez.
“Since 2007, my BirdznBeez locket and jewelry designs have been collected and cherished worldwide. I strive to bring you the most beautiful, original, keepsake jewelry and heirloom creations.
I have been selling at artfairs since 2003 and online since 2007, so please shop with confidence, I offer excellent customer service and want you to be thrilled with your purchase.
All my pieces are created in my home studio , I make each piece and treat each and every order as if it were a custom order, insuring quality every step of the way… “
May 15, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Oh shit – I just realized that I bought a pair of earrings from BirdznBeez in July 2008! lol I was was new to Etsy… and the earrings were cute!
Their prices weren’t quite so bad back then though… And I think they actually assembled my earrings.
May 15, 2012 at 2:55 pm
apparently she’s gone to the dark side – of cupcakey goodness, that is.
May 15, 2012 at 6:53 pm
I got my daughter the robot necklace in picture #2 from a stand at the beach. I had no idea I was buying a one of a kind handmade treasure.
May 16, 2012 at 5:14 am
Sorry to any “Chad’s” out there but naming your kid “Chad” is like sentencing him to a life of douche-baggery.
May 16, 2012 at 8:48 pm
I was explaining Etsy this evening to someone who was unfamiliar with it. I mentioned the censoring of negative comments and the reselling, but whoo-ee, it gets better.
On a side note, Etsy’s handling of resales reminds me of SL’s handling of violations. But there it’s virtual, at least, not something sold en masse from China.