The pants of many Etsy shop owners are on fire this year as they continue to bald face lie about the age of what they sell. Wanna feel totally safe when you list items that weren't designed or crafted by you, aren't supplies for crafting, and aren't at least 20 years old? Then choose "vintage" to identify your listing, and lie about how old your item is -- which Etsy's listing process makes you do. So, yeah, it's
LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE and Etsy's authentic Vintage sellers are silent about the outrage, as usual.
This blog isn't going to be silent. Check out the fake "vintage" and have a laugh at the mendacity of Etsy's shop owners!
JANUARY 02, 2020
Showing up on page 2 of most relevant Vintage items today is a listing for
miniature hay bales sold in lots of 1, 3, 6. 12. 24 or 100 units by Etsy reseller
DorisDotz aka Meyer Imports. The tiny bales are pretending to be "vintage". 384 units in stock.
Same item, sold by the same company, on
Amazon -- with no mention of the V-word. Do a Google search for the product, and there are dozens of merchant sites selling them. They are "vintage" only on Etsy.
JANUARY 17, 2020
Shown on page 1 of the most relevant Vintage listings today is this craftique
handmade ceramic teapot double-dip listed as both "Vintage" and "Handmade". It's not 20 years old. The item's Description provided by seller
CeramaStudio offers lots of good information about the teapot's handmade features, but nothing is said about it being 20+ years old. Etsy is still allowing crafters to create double-dip listings in order to have their handmade items seen in all search results. Of course, Etsy's Vintage seller community is silent about this ongoing practice that disadvantages them.
Etsy shop
PinkPickerParty mendaciously claims her
sustainably produced wooden utensils hand-stamped with Disney themed image and graphic is "Vintage from the 1960s". The shop has lots of other listings for stamped wooded flatware, but those are listed as "handmade". Claiming that the faux Disney ones are about 60 years old is simply fraud.
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