Today I’m going to tell you how to take great product shots for your Etsy store!

This is Tasty Tree! She just opened her store for business yesterday, but she’s already got some awesome product photos.

Aren’t those cute? Here’s how you take them:

On a Mac, press command + shift +3

On a PC press “Print Screen”

Wasn’t that easy?

Tasty Tree Political Pops
Bakerella Political Pops

Tasty Tree Apple Pops
Bakerella Apple Pops

Tasty Tree Ice Cream Pops
Bakerella Ice Cream Pops

Tasty Tree Sesame Street Pops
Bakerella Sesame Street Pops

Hope this was helpful! Make sure you pick up my new book:

UPDATE: Tasty Tree has removed the images and her store is presently empty.

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As you know, Etsy has a very strict policy against copyright infringement. And by “strict”, I mean looking down at their high tops and waiting for their milk to foam.

However, they have thoughtfully enabled jerks like us to do the work for them, by providing the option on each seller’s store where the thief can be flagged.

And that’s where you come in!

Apparently Etsy seller Glitterbiscuits (Tyneshia Buie) has been tracing a T-shirt design by artist Jess Fink, and selling it on Etsy with no shame.

Here’s Jess Fink’s shirt:

Here’s Glitterbiscuit:

And this is how she responds when a friend of Ms. Fink’s called her out for stealing:

I saw this last night and it really upset me. But by then Tyneshia had removed the shirt from her store, and I felt like it was too late to do anything about it. You couldn’t even really flag her at that point, because she was no longer actively engaged in doing anything wrong.

Then this was brought to my attention:

That’s the banner of her Etsy store, and she’s even using the image of the shirt.

And she’s changed her profile too:

Yes, she’s changed all her store information to say that while she’s been stealing another artist’s work, you can all go fuck yourselves. Isn’t that awesome? Meanwhile, the Etsy staff are riding their bicycles around the office and drawing mustaches on their pith helmets.

So this is what I’d like to see happen.

I’d like to see this store closed down TODAY.

I am asking all of you who are reading this, and there are hundreds and thousands of you, to flag this store right now. That might almost be enough to get Etsy’s content team to put down their copies of Catcher in the Rye and start doing their jobs.

Here’s the link. Look on the left-hand side for “Report This Shop.”

Go.

UPDATE: The remaining 4 pieces in Glitterbiscuits’s shop all miraculously “sold” 17 minutes ago. The store is empty. Now let’s get it closed down.

This Etsy store sells counterfeit Louis Vuitton bags.

Sometimes she gets around that by saying the bags are cheap because they’re “probably not authentic,” Which is kind of like saying I know the car is stolen, but I only want $200 for it.

Sometimes she just says it’s vintage, which is kind of a catch-all category on Etsy. It could mean, stolen, couldn’t sell it at my yard sale or I found it in the back of my car. In a case like that, she just gives you bad feedback if you complain.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What’s wrong with you? You should have known I was ripping you off! Didn’t you read the listing? It very clearly says absolutely nothing about this not being an authentic bag! It AMAZES ME that people spend money on Etsy and think they’re going to get things! DON’T EVER COME BACK TO MY STORE TO GET RIPPED OFF AGAIN YOU IGNORANT WHORE

UPDATE: Many of you followed up on this, complaining to Etsy and Louis Vuitton. One reader sent her a surprisingly polite convo through Etsy, expressing displeasure at seeing counterfeit bags on Etsy. The seller seems repentant.

She has now closed her store, and will probably not return until she’s had time to get another round of designer bags from the swap meet. She will be just find.