More intriguing Etsy stuff

[valis2]

Apparently no one monitors Etsy during the weekends, and that's when buy/sell people set up shops. They list two hundred items in a matter of minutes, "shill" (sell to themselves to increase feedback) and are gone by Monday morning, when Etsy minions come back online.

Comments

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Naw, they're things like mass-produced purses that you buy off the streets of New York.

I so totally agree with you. Etsy is great for the casual Etsy seller, but their core group of Etsians is at least a little unhappy.

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised people buy those off etsy. That's more of an ebay thing... I thought etsy buyers were looking for handcrafted goods.

Then again, if the sellers are selling to themselves it doesn't matter what buyers are doing. Then again, how are they making money if they're buying it from themselves?

Wha-what? I'm sure there's some point to it all, I just don't get it.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

The "shill" sales aren't real sales--they're fake-selling to themselves so that buyers think they have lots of feedback. So buyers blissfully buy the buy/sell stuff in the store, apparently assuming that it's handmade. :( It's really sad. Some of the Etsians are "calling out" buy/sell people on the forums, which is supposed to be a no-no, so it just shows you how angry people are getting about this.