Good Reading "The Skinny on Etsy"

"Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. Our vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice: Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade. ... Who is Etsy? Etsy was founded by Rob Kalin, Chris Maguire, Haim Schoppik and Jared Tarbell in June, 2005. We are a community and a company." -- From Etsy's web site.   OK Rob.  How about all the resellers of crap you can buy online from China etc. ??????????????????
http://www.squidoo.com/Regretsy#module70278911

Could you be more obvious? WTF???

This is the crap that is totally slapping us in the face.  SHYMALIL LAMAS Shop.  Please tweet and blog this shop all over the place.  High five the one who called it out. 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ShymaliLlamas

Check out the listing below marked handmade.  There are a ton of these on this site.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_19&listing_id=18907858&ga_search_query=handmade&ga_search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5755603

Peekin at the resellers

Congrats everyone we've had over 600 visitors to this site in the short time it's been up.  Interesting that only a small (very small) percentage of those visitors left comments.  I am very proud of those of you that were not afraid of "calling out".   You don't have to call out anyone just leave your comment or say hello.  Your shop won't be closed and neither will your thread here.  You can rant all you want.  That's what were here for.

Etsy it's all about the money

OK, I know it's all about the money.  Have you ever stared at the newly listed item.  They never stop.  Now think of each time one rolls by it is 20 cents in etsy pocket.  Now if I were Etsy would you ask someone to stop listing????  That's taking money out of their pockets.  To us they are just plugging up the searches.