Etsy's Merchandising Team promotes more listings for new handmade products in featured thumbnails on the Vintage landing page #etsysellsvintage

It's a new month, and Etsy mendacious Merchandising Team has curated some new product category thumbnails at the top of the landing page under the Vintage link.

Let's have a look at what Etsy is promoting today as "vintage".

Soap seller PrettyGifty4U has the curated thumbnail spot under Vintage/Toys and Games for this Fiona the Hippo Kids Soaps Set listed as "vintage handmade".  19 color options, 237 sets in stock.

Obviously there is no yuck factor about soaps supposedly 20+ years old being used by children in the Etsyverse.  Everyone knows the Etsyverse never had a yuck factor about deceptive selling practices.  Not "vintage" and not a "toy" or a "game".


UPDATE AUGUST 7, 2018 -- More!

As the curated feature thumbnail for Vintage/Art & Collectibles, the mendacious Merchandising Team has chosen a digital download!  That's right, in the Etsyverse an item that has no physical existence when purchased, and is newly created on the buyer's device after the sale, can be sold as a "vintage item from the 1800s".  As an antique, over a century old!  The item is this digital file of a geological map  sold by KramStudioDesign has been chosen to represent the types of Art and Collectibles shoppers will find on the site -- and they're not "vintage".

Despite the evidence right there on the Vintage link landing page, the Vintage Seller Community remains clueless about how Etsy corporate views authentic Vintage items and Antiques for sale on the site.