front page repeats...

Oh, we didn't forget.

front page repeats for Saturday 02-13-10
krize (regular repeat, multiple times every week for the last 3 weeks)
malam (regular repeat, twice in one day)
rabbitstop (regular repeat, this week + last week)
shecological (regular repeat, Treasury Mafia / treasury incest member)
shecological was one with fellow treasury incest members lisaburkin & decoratethediva!
sleepyking (regular repeat, this week + last week)
thrush (regular repeat, regular curator)
toybreaker (perennial repeat)
zygopsyche (twice in 1 day)

front page repeats for Sunday 02-14-10
duende74 (regular repeat, this week, last week)
eneeme (regular repeat)
seapinks (regular repeat, repeat curator)
sharonclancydesigns (regular repeat, Treasury Mafia / treasury incest member)
shebboDesign (regular repeat, TWICE on SUNDAY, god, there must not be any other ceramacists on etsy...)
shecological (regular repeat, Treasury Mafia / treasury incest member)
slinkymalinkicat (perennial repeat, last week, multiple every preceding week)
yaelfran (regular repeat)

front page repeats for Monday 02-15-10
allencompanyinc (regular repeat, multiple times every week...)
AwakenJournaling (regular repeat, this week, last week, the week before last)
man, could there possibly anyone else making journals on etsy? We see AwakenJournaling so often that there must not be anyone else...
duende74 (regular repeat, this week, last week)
eneeme (regular repeat, twice today)
likekittysville (regular repeat, multiple features in Storque articles)
maclancy (regular repeat, multiple times every week for the last 3 weeks)
poppyswickedgarden (regular repeat, you know, those fucking twitter tights)
shebboDesign (regular repeat)

since we've come to the conclusion that it's easier to copy and paste, we just dumped the last 3 days together for our own personal benefit...
allencompanyinc (regular repeat, multiple times every week...)
AwakenJournaling (regular repeat, this week, last week, the week before last)
duende74 (regular repeat, this week, last week)
eneeme (regular repeat)
GollyBard (perennial repeat, multiple times per week for the last 3 weeks)
krize (regular repeat, multiple times every week for the last 3 weeks)
likekittysville (regular repeat, multiple features in Storque articles)
maclancy (regular repeat, multiple times every week for the last 3 weeks)
malam (regular repeat, twice in one day)
poppyswickedgarden (regular repeat, you know, those fucking twitter tights)
rabbitstop (regular repeat, this week + last week)
seapinks (regular repeat, repeat curator)
sharonclancydesigns (regular repeat, Treasury Mafia / treasury incest member)
shebboDesign (regular repeat)
shecological (regular repeat, Treasury Mafia / treasury incest member)
sleepyking (regular repeat, this week + last week)
slinkymalinkicat (perennial repeat, last week, multiple every preceding week)
thrush (regular repeat, regular curator)
toybreaker (perennial repeat)
yaelfran (regular repeat)
zygopsyche (twice in 1 day)

likekittysville elicits her own special game from us. Every time we see an $80.00 cat perch we laugh sarcastically and think back to likekittyville's very revealing featured seller interview:

How do you promote your work?

Ugh. I hate that part. I have an imaginary press kit. Word-of-mouth has been good to me, so I try to foster that goodwill by using creative recycled packaging for kitty bed shipments, check-and-double-check communication, and oversize biz cards.

By word of mouth you mean the paid (through all of our listing and selling fees) etsy employee who spends their time promoting your fucking cat perches in Storque articles, etsy finds, the gift guides, and on the front page, right? Because if you don't then we're going to go get a shovel and dig a whole in the ground, and then pull your pants down and take a shot and ask you if you can tell the difference between those two. We're guessing that you can't. But, wow, someone on the etsy staff loves their cat.

Ask yourselves: why can etsy do so very much for maclancy, sharonclancydesigns, shebboDesigns, and the rest of the front page repeats in regards to the free front page exposure at the behest of employees who are paid through your listing fees, but what have they done for you lately?

There are more than 40 sellers on etsy. Do Not Patronize front page repeats. Don't buy from them. Don't put them in your treasuries. Don't enable the unprofessional etsy employees to continue to put them on the front page with your shop name credited as responsible. Favoritism is an unfair business practice. Do Not Patronize front page favorites.

perennial etsy fuck up, favoritism, repeats and other unsavory behavior that erodes the trust of your member community.
"etsy suck" on every level of social commerce.

front page repeats, still...

You know, I wrote some long ass editorial on Saturday, but it's not like I stopped paying attention or something...

Saturday saw these front page repeats...
GollyBard (perennial repeat, more than TWICE this week)
krize (regular repeat, TWICE this week + last week)
thrush (perennial repeat)
toybreaker (perennial repeat, TWICE this week)

Sunday saw these front page repeats...
allencompanyinc (regular repeat, this week + TWICE last week, the week before last)
AwakenJournaling (regular repeat, this week + last week, the week before last)
humblebea (perennial repeat, this week, last week, etc)
NanLawson (regular repeat, this week + last week, the week before last)
quotesandnotes (this week + multiple times last week)
RUBYrecycled (regular repeat, this week + last week, the week before last)
slinkymalinkicat (perennial repeat, this week + multiple times last week, and the week before last)
xenotees (regular repeat, this week + TWICE last week, the week before last)

Now at the bottom of etsy's front page is the "New Storque Articles & Related Items" box, you know the thing with the scroll screen...
So, there's this article:
Etsy Finds: Revenge of the Nerds
And what is featured in the graphic for the article? Why the foliage handsoap set, of course.
So, guess what's already on the front page (if you guessed hand shaped soap by foliage, give yourself a silver star!)? Why it's a treasury titled "browsing through etsy's categories", which of course, was selected by etsy staff -- you know the people who are paid through your listing fees. Hey, guess which item was found by etsy staff while supposedly "browsing through the categories"!!!!
(rolls eyes)
if you guessed: foliage handsoap set
then give yourself a gold star.

What are the chances that an item that is A. already on the front page, and B. has already appeared so god damned many times on the front page, in Storque articles, the etsy finds email, and too many times in the gift guides to possibly count — anyway, what are the chances that some paid etsy employee was actually spending company time looking through the etsy listings in the categories and found that one? What are the chances? Zero.

Stop fucking calling it browsing through etsy's categories. Call it shit that I found a year and a half ago while I happened to accidently be forced to browse a category, which I have then featured in every possible location on this site I could jam it into because it's one of my personal favorites.

Showing us the very same shit by the very same people who have been featured there previously that week, the week before that, and every preceding week is fucking insulting, it's a demonstration of contempt, and it's lazy.
I'd like to end with "etsy fail", but well, I think the employees are too dense and self righteous to get it... so we'll go with:
perennial etsy fuck up, favoritism, repeats and other unsavory behavior that erodes the trust of your member community.
"etsy suck" on every level of social commerce.

front page repeats, again

Really, 24 hours can't go by without featuring the same people over and over, etsy? If this was a drinking game I would be completely hammered by now...
New repeats 1 day later. They are the same sellers you've seen days ago, last week, and virtually every week before that.

artmind (perennial repeat, this week + last week)
AwakenJournaling (regular repeat, this week + last week)
awakes (regular repeat, this week + last week)
krize (regular repeat, this week + last week)
LeslieThomson (multiple times in 1 day)
mooshoopork (regular repeat, this week + last week)
munieca (regular repeat, this week + last week)
NanLawson (regular repeat, this week + last week)
NestaHome (regular repeat, this week + last week)
quotesandnotes (multiple times THIS WEEK)
RUBYrecycled (regular repeat, this week + last week)
slinkymalinkicat (perennial repeat)
toybreaker (perennial repeat)
yaelfran (regular repeat)

There are more than 40 sellers on etsy. Do Not Patronize front page repeats. Don't buy from them. Don't put them in your treasuries. Don't enable the unprofessional etsy employees to continue to put them on the front page with your shop name credited as responsible. Favoritism is an unfair business practice. Do Not Patronize front page favorites.

front page repeats...

I hold out hope sometimes. But with etsy and the front page, well, having hope is just silly. It is a new week. But it is also only Wednesday.
Between 1-31-10 and 2-3-10 these are the front page repeats:

annarubyking (regular repeat)
awakes (regular repeat, this week + last week)
Corrabelle (featured twice on Sunday)
DearDodo (regular repeat, this week + last week)
giddyspinster (regular repeat)
girlsavage (regular repeat)
jessjamesjake (regular repeat, this week + last week)
krize (regular repeat, this week + last week)
Lirola (can I poke my eyes out now?)
maclancy (regular repeat, this week + last week)
MIXKO (regular repeat, this week + last week)
munieca (regular repeat, this week + last week)
olaladesign (regular repeat, repeat curator)
orglamix (regular repeat, this week + last week)
ozetta (regular repeat, this week + last week)
rabbitstop (you know, the new toybreaker... and regular repeat, this week + last week)
RUBYreclycled (regular repeat, this week + last week)
sleepyking (regular repeat, this week + last week)
slinkymalinkicat (perennial repeat)
studiobeerhorst
TheApple (regular repeat, this week + last week)
toybreaker (perennial repeat)
yaelfran (regular repeat)

If some asshole on the forums tries to deny that there are front page repeats and then goes on to tell you that it is all in your head, your imagination, or the pit of your deep down dark jealous soul, it simply is not. These are simply a handful of the etsy sellers who constantly are given free promotional time on the front page. It is an unfair business practice. It isn't that you are jealous, or that you take substandard photos, or make lousy product, or have a shop name that contains numbers (yes, honey, you are treading into cuckoo conspiracy territory when you suggest that one). It is just favoritism, and it is wrong.

If you make treasuries, then avoid these shops.

DNBF Front page repeats 1-23-10 to 1-30-10

I'm sure there are more than what I will list here...
These are the front page repeats from the week of 1-23-10 thru 1-30-10.
Shops that are given an unfair advantage by repeatedly being given free promotional time by etsy staff, while the vast majority of etsy sellers haven't seen their items on the front page in multiple months, if not years.

Don't patronize these shops. Do not buy their merchandise. Do not feature them in your treasuries. If they're in your favorites, then I would recommend removing them.

artmind
AwakenJournaling
awakes
bubbletime
cocoabeans
FlourishBathBeauty
gollybard
HelenesDreams
jessjamesjake
maclancy
NanLawson
ozetta
poppyswickedgarden
rabbitstop (apparently the new toybreaker!)
Raceytay
rosiemusic
RUBYrecycled
slinkymalinkicat
thrush

DNBF Front Page Repeats

No, kids, it's not your imagination! The same sellers are featured on the front page treasury on a daily basis.
yesterday and today... and probably tomorrow and forever on into the future...
slinkymalinkicat
you know, slinkymalinkicat, the vintage reseller of an ENDLESS supply of other people's prints. slinkymalinkicat is not an artist, slinkymalinkicat sells other people's work, not handmade.

HelenesDreams

featured on the front page twice in one day...
awakes

Oh, oh! Perennial forum whiner tinahdee made the front page!
tinahdee

Favoritism is so tactless. Do Not Buy From sellers who benefit from unfair business practices based in favoritism and carelessness.

really, etsy?

Is it that hard to spread the wealth around?
Tuesday 26 January 2010
rosiemusic makes the front page twice in 1 day, within the span of 4 hours.
bubbletime makes the front page twice in 1 day, within the span of 4 hours... and was featured on the previous day

poppyswickedgarden is on the front page with the same tights for the umpteenth time.

gollybard is on the front page today, as gollybard was on the front page yesterday.

slinkymalinkicat again, just like every day before that...
you know, slinkymalinkicat, who has an endless supply of prints that were manufactured by someone else, drawn by someone else... not handmade.

25 January 2010
Raceytay makes the front page twice in 1 day, 2 treasuries back to back.

With at least 333 regular treasuries and 222 treasury wests to choose from, how do the same people end up on the front page all the time?
Favoritism.
So, all you consumers do your fellow etsians a favor: don't buy from admin favorites, don't buy from these sellers. Do Not Patronize shops that benefit from unfair business practices.

Do Not Patronize!

A special update!
Etsy staff have been hard at work promoting the same old tired shit on the front page again!
Since they work so hard for these people, DO NOT BUY from them!
giddyspinster

gollybard

HydraHeart

likekittysville

monkeysalwayslook

rafya

slinkymalinkicat

toybreaker

YAVAglass