Showing posts with label Etsy craftiques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Etsy craftiques. Show all posts

23 December 2019

Etsy Grinches on its Vintage seller community by featuring new handmade craftiques in their 2019 Top Vintage Picks of the Year promotional email #etsysellsvintage

Yup, Etsy has done it again!  In today's promotional email titled Top Vintage Picks of the Year 3 out of the 7 items shown are actually new handmade craft items!

The main (largest) photo links to a page featuring "Vintage Jewelry and Accessories".  32 items are included, 24 of which are sold -- the items at that link have not been updated/replaced for almost a year now.  The lion head door knocker earrings shown in the main thumbnail are sold.

None of the other 6 thumbnails are clickable.  The link actually sends you to various curated promotions that may -- or may not -- include the featured item.  A hot mess.

In position number 1 (top left) is this handmade "Vintage Turquoise Bee Locket" that has been promoted by Etsy as "vintage" for about 5 years now,  The mendacious seller has listed it as a "Vintage item from the 1950s" AND "handmade" -- but it's just handmade.  Nothing about it is original.  The brass locket has been painted and sealed, embellished with a bee, and placed on a new chain.  Currently there are 14 "vintage from the 1950s" units in stock.






This is what Etsy considers "vintage jewelry".  Could not be sold at a reputable antiques co-op or show because it's a fake!


Item number 2 (top right) is a vintage sweater -- SOLD!

Item number 3 (second row left) is a vintage bamboo lamp -- SOLD!

Item number 4 (second row right) is a wedding veil with crystal headpiece, which is not shown at the link that leads to Vintage wedding veils.  Looking at the photo as soon as I opened the email, I had this photo IDed as a brand new contemporary piece.  And I was right.  Copying and pasting the photo into Google Images, led to the item listing:  traditional wedding veil and crystal tiara headpiece  It will be made to the buyer's specification of lace color, veil length, metal color for the tiara.  Not a vintage item, and the seller isn't pretending that it is vintage.  









Item number 5 (bottom left) is a brand new tea light holder manufactured from rainbow fluorite mendaciously listed as "Vintage from before 2000" (because rocks are like, old, and stuff) AND "handmade".  It's a craftique, not vintage.  Available in 3 different sizes, 8 brand new units in stock.






Item number 6 is a Vintage shoulder bag -- SOLD!


And there's the documentation that 3 out of 7 items shown are, in fact, NEW.  That's how #etsysellsvintage!

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