Comments on: SPECIAL: Gift Guides

By: red leaf

red leaf — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:22:48 +0000

A piece of you? Just no no no. What the HELL is that supposed to be? Earwax? And the moss stuff needs to just be gone already right up there with felt beards and scrabble pendants.

By: PussDaddy

PussDaddy — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:12:25 +0000

That fricking moss ring has made it into enough treasuries that you could sod my entire lawn with the damn things.

PussDaddy

By: Nicky

Nicky — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:09:20 +0000

That rabbit thing is creepy…

By: Dagnabbit

Dagnabbit — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:33:09 +0000

I cannot look at the GGs, because a lot of the stuff they pick is depressingly bad. It’s beyond laughable in many cases. The Showcases: well, people buy those slots so you expect to see bad stuff. But specifically chosen to represent the quality that can be found on Etsy? Good luck finding quality when Etsy staff can’t seem to be able to discern it themselves. Good luck finding what you want thru the search engine.
If I were looking for beautiful hand made things and browsed the GGs and Showcases, I would probably be too disgusted to even bothering with the search.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:21:25 +0000

I don’t sell on Etsy – buyer only. So no one can say I’m expressing sour grapes. I don’t spend a lot of time researching sellers, but I clearly see the same sellers on the FP, GG and Featured Sellers and QYDJ features. I’ve even seen 1 seller featured in QYDJ twice, with 2 different shop names (neither of which showed enough sales to even marginally approach QYDJ status).

Admins have multiple shops and don’t disclose them clearly. They have shops which infringe upon copyrights, which violate TOUs, and which they promote in GGs. They promote their friends, who have shop announcements and profiles which direct buyers to get discounted rates via other URLs.

Etsy is a clique, and not a particularly business savvy one at that.

By: Patty

Patty — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:20:10 +0000

What better then to charge someone for a chunk of THEMSELVES …UGH !! I gotta go throw up Bleech !….is that supposed to be skin ????? ..eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww

By: EtsyWTF

EtsyWTF — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:34:30 +0000

All the emails I got said which GG each item was from, and none of them were from the Showcase . But looking at the GG Showcase today, looks like the seller who prints the colouring books bought a slot.

By: FreckleyRedhead

FreckleyRedhead — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:23:58 +0000

One thing about the gift guides, though. There are gift guides and then there are gift guide SHOWCASES – any Etsy seller can purchase a slot in a showcase and put whatever they want in there. So it’s possible that these weren’t all picked by admin. Let’s hope so, anyway.