Pocketwatch is the New Octopus
- This post originally appeared on Regretsy on May 3, 2011
Etsy promotes only a handful of very special sellers on their front page. Everything they promote is carefully vetted and returns no concerns, so you can shop with confidence!
Let’s look at yesterday’s handmade favorites!
What an awesome pocket watch! That must have taken forever to make. No wonder it sold so fast!
Don’t worry if you missed it. She has more.
And if she’s sold out, try these guys.
Of course, you may not be in the market for several hundred handmade mass-produced pocket watches. So if you’re only looking for one at a time, try this seller.
He may not have that exact handmade model, but he’s sure to have something equally unique!
Or you could just do a keyword search. With thousands of handmade pocket watches, you’ll probably find something.
UPDATE: one year and over 1,000 sales later, Tempus Fugit is still going strong. Re-selling like a motherfucker, and Etsy’s do-nothing “integrity team” just looks the other way. Because NO CALLING OUT, YOU GUYS.
July 27, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Etsy has re-sold its soul
July 27, 2012 at 4:39 pm
You’re assuming Etsy had a soul to begin with.
July 27, 2012 at 4:54 pm
It did. In the beginning. It did.
July 27, 2012 at 5:00 pm
muuulllti paasssss
July 27, 2012 at 5:04 pm
I thumbed her up too. That sounds wrong.
July 27, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Etsy’s soul is Made in China.
July 27, 2012 at 8:37 pm
My blood runs cold,
That pocketwatch has been resold!
And the Etsy team says it cannot scold…
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July 28, 2012 at 5:27 am
yes but all the cupcakes said its was so: Cute, Super Cute, Really Cute, I love it!
July 28, 2012 at 8:49 pm
Nah, just exchanged it for a Chinese one.
July 29, 2012 at 11:51 am
It is mainly china junk now. Don’t know how it has fallen so far. Sad really.
July 27, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Ah, Etsy. Where site integrity and the founding mission can fuck right off as long as there’s money to made.
July 27, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Does that make them resellouts?
July 27, 2012 at 4:38 pm
These posts always make me so depressed because I know there’s nothing to be done about it.
July 28, 2012 at 4:46 am
This makes me wanna punch someone in the face….
July 27, 2012 at 4:41 pm
You do realize that right above the pocket watch is that wonderfully “unique” octopus, too, right?
July 28, 2012 at 11:18 am
Yeah, but it’s a supply, so that doesn’t count.
July 27, 2012 at 4:42 pm
But they’re Steampunk! Throw me a bone, here.
July 27, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Tempus? Fuggit.
July 27, 2012 at 6:10 pm
It’s not Tempus.
- House
July 27, 2012 at 7:35 pm
July 27, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Check out this great pocketwatch that Tempus Fugit has now!
Octopus Pocketwatch
It’s so unique
July 27, 2012 at 4:50 pm
I kind of want to believe this was done as a joke after seeing the original post, but I’m sure it wasn’t.
July 27, 2012 at 4:53 pm
That pocket watch just screams “Suckers!”
July 27, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Hexapus or Sexapus? Who ya got?
July 28, 2012 at 7:21 am
Ahhh….the elusive 6 armed octopus. So very, very rare.
July 28, 2012 at 7:21 am
I think they’re only found in China.
July 29, 2012 at 9:59 pm
I’ve been trying to report Tempus Fugit since I saw them, back in my precocious lurk-only days of Regretsy. I can’t believe these assholes are still running.
July 27, 2012 at 4:46 pm
You know what’s scary? My Mum sent me a pair of brass owl earrings for my birthday- they arrived today and I am wearing them because I love my Mum and she loves me and all that. But all I can think of whenever I pass a mirror and lovingly check out how amazingly gorgeous I am is that I look like a namaste bitch. DAMN YOU REGRETSY!!!
July 27, 2012 at 4:51 pm
What time is it?
It’s Scammer time!
July 27, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Can’t torch this. *sigh*
July 27, 2012 at 4:52 pm
If you want some real entertainment (i.e. to seethe and froth even more), go check out their feedback. Apparently they’re making so much money hand over fist that they don’t even bother to ship most of their orders.
July 27, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Wow… and this is POSITIVE feedback!
“Love it, except for a “MADE IN CHINA” stamped on the back of the watch that I had to look at every time I flip the watch over. This was NOT in the picture. I was able to scratch it off w/my pocket knife without scratching the glass, though, so it wasn’t too big of a deal. Still very happy w/my purchase.”
July 27, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Because scratching it out means it didn’t happen.
July 27, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Wow. I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell to that customer. Guess I should slap a hexapus, chevron or mustache on it first to up the Etsy value.
July 28, 2012 at 5:31 am
I will spot you the listing fee if you really want to do this
July 27, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Are you sre it wasn’t Made BY China…she’s the handiworker in a third world country who has to make all the batteries by hand
July 27, 2012 at 4:54 pm
But…they CUSTOM MAKE their orders!
“This item is custom made/made to order item
I made this necklace using a fully working tiny, fully functional battery watch and a long bronze chain 30″ with a matching bronze clasp.”
See? They slide it on a chain! Just for you!
Tossers.
July 27, 2012 at 5:39 pm
AHA! So THIS is what the crazy guitar lady was warning us about in her indie crafting warning! (comment in last item’s comments by Blackalabama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAOUWhgjvTg&feature=plcp ) She was warning us about paying good money for quality materials and taking the time to design and construct something actually handmade, when we could spend alot less by joining in the tidal wave of etsy rellers! Once again: she resell long time!
July 27, 2012 at 6:03 pm
I had an uncle who was a watchmaker (for real, this was back in the 40s and 50s). We’ve still got watches in the family he made, and most of them work perfectly. When he got to the point he could no longer see fine-detail well enough to make watches, he took up repairing them.
If I were inclined towards doing nasty things, I’d call him up from the grave and have him go strangle this reseller.
July 27, 2012 at 6:51 pm
I would watch the hell out of that fight.
July 27, 2012 at 7:05 pm
It’s about time.
July 27, 2012 at 8:46 pm
I hope the reseller gets clocked, but good.
July 28, 2012 at 8:42 am
Now I’m all wound up.
July 28, 2012 at 9:17 am
I’m down for the count.
July 28, 2012 at 9:20 am
Hey, don’t fob it off on me.
July 28, 2012 at 9:50 am
watch it!
July 27, 2012 at 6:27 pm
And if you are looking for UNIQUE HANDMADE necklaces check out this: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/OTI2MjY2NnwyNzIwNTUxNjE5/rainbow
July 27, 2012 at 6:40 pm
I love how cocky these resellers are. Even better is the fact that Etsy doesn’t give a shit. I wish someone would alert the real media about the fact that Etsy is as full of shit as this seller.
July 27, 2012 at 7:10 pm
I should really step away from the keyboard while I’ve been drinking….I just sent Tempus F**k*t a message saying I need about 20 sets of the pocketwatch cufflinks…can they give me the address of their wholesaler!
July 27, 2012 at 8:24 pm
I took a few hours out of my day and reported about 50 resellers of the same stupid owl pendant necklace and I contacted the sellers, too. Only received three responses from sellers. One actually claimed that alibaba.com stole her photos from her website. The other two were not American (English was not their first language. I could tell by the way their e-mails were written.) and told me because they attach the pendant to the chain, it’s allowed. I never did hear anything from Etsy and all those sellers are still there. It’s so frustrating.
July 27, 2012 at 9:28 pm
The Chinese muscled in on our industry jobs and now our handcrafts and arts but when are they going to start stealing my housework and cooking chores, goddammit? Plus my supply of casual sex partners has fallen far below demand!
July 28, 2012 at 12:35 am
I suppose I should know better by now, but I’m still amazed that a rusty metal gear has made it to the top of their handmade picks
July 28, 2012 at 7:31 am
The very idea that you could list a pocket watch as handmade in this day and age is absurd. You know how many processes go into making a timepiece? And then they sell it for TWELVE FUCKING BUCKS???
Craft has been completely devalued at this point. Nobody understands it, nobody seeks it out anymore. For someone like me who ACTUALLY MAKES STUFF, this is just absolutely soul-crushing. I need a fucking time machine so I can go back to when people gave a shit.
July 28, 2012 at 8:18 am
Don’t buy shoddy resold time machines! Not only will you be taking work from native Chrono-Fabricants, you’ll end up in the Middle Ages with hand-made everything but also Bubonic Plague.
July 28, 2012 at 9:27 am
But it would be easy to get high medical value leeches.
July 28, 2012 at 12:51 pm
I’m sure Mariana from Ecologica Malibu would be MORE than happy to have a ‘handmade’ time machine created from a salvaged one sent to you at a steep price, by her studio of 4884984084 workers in Malaysia (the 4 men working at her studio in Malibu are away on weekends) Have you checked Overstock.com?
July 28, 2012 at 8:36 am
What is Etsy’s justification for “no calling out” again? Is it sort of like when someone calls a rape victim a “bully” for accusing someone of rape?
I mean, that’s the tacit justification, right? Calling out equals being mean, so they don’t allow it?
July 28, 2012 at 9:20 am
In a nutshell, yes.
Although, to be honest, people have “called out” other people who didn’t actually deserve it. Closing the call out threads is understandable… NOT closing down an obvious reseller or rule breaker on the other hand…
July 28, 2012 at 11:49 am
Reported everything I found an exact match for.
July 28, 2012 at 4:25 pm
You know, I am almost tempted to go and buy from an obvious reseller and then report them to the ACCC in Australia. I am wondering whether they could do anything, whereas Etsy won’t. Bastards opened up a brick and mortar ‘showroom’ in Melbourne earlier this year, and were trumpeting about the handmade ideology. Made me sick.
July 28, 2012 at 7:45 pm
There’s an “as seen on TV” ad for a so-called Kansas City Railroad Pocket Watch that looks identical to that first one. And they’re charging $20. http://www.kansascitypocketwatch.com/ These things must be mass produced in China.
July 29, 2012 at 10:05 pm
I’m going to go practice the Regretsy swearing list, here:http://www.regretsy.com/?s=swearingand cry into a large glass of vodka and vicodin.
More seriously, Regretsy has made me a better, more careful artisan; has given me better self esteem; educated me about kinky sex; and encouraged me to clean my house. (I’m not making this shit up.)
Seeing people like this, selling factory-made shit made of pure children’s tears, makes me angry on behalf of all the artisans better than me. Craftivism is getting some attention, and meanwhile, Regretsy is, for real, improving lives. Therefore, the only thing to do is grit our teeth and keep reporting them, create protest sites, and get drunk with dashingly handsome Finnish men whilst being served by lapdancing trans waiters wearing x-rated balloon hats. It’s what Jesus would do.
July 31, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Etsy’s “integrity team” ceased to have any relevance when they changed their listing fee policy to cover multiples rather than billing a listing fee per item. If I list five original art works, it will cost me $1.00. If a factory has 1,000 of the same item and put it all under the same listing, they pay $0.20.