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jicachan

Regretsy VS Etsy

Dec 29, 2009 13:58

"Handmade? It looks like you made it with your feet."

I stumble on this site/blog Regretsy one day when I was reading comments in the EGL community. It seems to be a reaction site versus this site Etsy.com which is a trading site where you can sell your shit stuff and buy new craps. But honestly, if you search through the stuff that people are ( Read more... )

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kimi_no_koe December 29 2009, 18:25:56 UTC

I don't know. I've sold stuff on Etsy and I've bought stuff on Etsy and in the years since I found the site, I've never seen stuff as horrible as the stuff on that blog. Granted, I tended to browse in the jewelry and bags sections, so maybe all the crap is in the other categories. *shrugs*

I find the blog rather offensive, though, and I'm offended on behalf of the people who get made fun of. It definitely makes me think twice about listing anything else for sale on Etsy. D:

jicachan December 29 2009, 20:14:56 UTC

Yeah, I don't agree with everything she says either, but those stuff she has got on her site is kind of hilarious.... Not sure what categories she is searching through, maybe in everything. Maybe she should do something better than looking up what people sell and get annoyed by that... but seems like she will make a book out of it and she seems to have a lot of fans. It looks like she had permissions from the sellers to use their stuff, idk...

Sorry to have made you unhappy, I never buy or sell things on Etsy.com, it seems to be an American site, isn't it?

scottishlass December 29 2009, 21:21:30 UTC

What I really don't like is the fact that she takes the really bad examples and totally ignores the really good and well made shops and items that can be found on etsy. Stuff like this http://www.etsy.com/shop/sarahjanestudios or this http://www.etsy.com/shop/birdandlittlebird

jicachan December 31 2009, 23:44:47 UTC

Since her purpose is to make fun of the bad examples I guess she isn't looking at the good stuff. Maybe I was expressing it wrong, maybe she isn't reacting against the site Etsy, just finding people there and pointing at their stuff which she finds ridiculious. I mean, the good ones, what CAN she complain about??