Like this pendant light handmade by LightLadyStudio
Listed like this...
Overview
- Vintage handmade item from the 1960s
- Ships worldwide from United States
- Feedback: 140 reviews
- Favorited by: 180 people
...but described like this...
Cool antique industrial pendant light designed and constructed exclusively in the LightLady Studio.
Fixture is handmade and should be ready to ship within one week of purchase.
...so not "vintage from the 1960s". It's made to order, actually, not made 40+ years ago. "Vintage handmade" is Etsyverse code talk for "I am going to make this item show up in searches no matter what a shopper is looking for". Mendacious and unprofessional.
Only in the Etsyverse can sellers purchase their "vintage" products factory fresh from China! Like these panda squishies mendaciously listed as "vintage" by squishy reseller ScentedSlimeByAmy -- it seems her handmade slimes act as shelter items for the hundreds of brand new "vintage" squishies being resold.
Buy them new on Ali Express and save.
Another mendacious seller has a super-relevant brand new item pretending to be "vintage". Meet LaterOperator whose shop is stuffed with brand new Asian import junque jewelry. This pair of punk style screw earrings is at the top of Etsy Vintage search results today. The title says they are "90s Style" which does not mean "made in the 1990s".
Buy these on Amazon and save $9 over the price listed in LaterOperator. But, wait! The Etsy pair is also pretending to be "handmade":
Overview
- Vintage handmade item
- Ships worldwide from United States
- Feedback: 945 reviews
- Favorited by: 850 people
Bet you didn't realize that you are "hand-making" your pierced earrings when you put them on?
February 22
One of the most relevant items today in an Etsy search for all Vintage items is this brand new tiger face pouch manufactured in China. The seller WhiteWolfAlchemyShop has correctly deduced that reseller products listed as "vintage" are much more likely to go unreported, allowed to remain even if they are reported.
2 "vintage" units in stock, priced at $6.55 each. Many varieties of this item wholesale from this merchant on Ali Express priced at $1-2 and change. The current line up of faux vintage Chinese import reseller products in WhiteWolfAlchemyShop is in their Just For Fun! shop section.
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