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.

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[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.