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.

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

the GIFT GUIDES: react!

Hello bitches!

Try something: organize chaos and terrorize with it.

You’re not in the gift guides? Hey, neither am I. But you know what, etsy ADMIN have come to your shop to “call out” to all these items in other shops… (try to see irony, or levels of syllogism, use your creativity people.)

So…

A. Boycott these shops! Convo your fellow etsy peeps with this list and say, “hey, fuck these people, etsy is calling out right there in my shop for you to patronize them over me… so DO NOT PATRONIZE these shops.”

B. Flag their shit! Go to those shops, and go over their shit with a fine toothed comb. Flag the fuck out of their shops and their items for the most minor and ridiculous and petty violations, esp. tags!

C. Inundate all of their contact emails and render their “customer support” more useless than it already is. Seriously, shut them down with “spam”. Find some email address of yours that isn’t connected to your etsy shop in any way shape or form (perhaps your husband, boyfriend, lover, wife, girlfriend…): because these are petty wannabe hipster fucktards and if you use your own addy, rest assured you will be muted and shut down: be clever bitches: be anonymous! Use that non-etsy email address to contact every etsy contact email once a day, every day for a week (yes, even the irrelevant ones) with this copy-and-pasted statement:

Dear etsy, I find it disgraceful that you are spamming my shop with TOU-violating call-outs to all of the shops on this list. I find it disgusting that you charge for useless site features while giving these select people free promotion. I will not patronize these shops, but thank you for calling them out so relentlessly so that I know not to buy from them. I will also be telling my family, friends, and associates not to patronize them.

CardboardSafari

artlab

toybreaker

dbabcock

elineof

GurKimel

lirola

TheHandworkGroup

soule

patkas

elizandaxel

carolhannah

DolorisPetunia

EightSeasons

girlsavage

hollystalder

jennykim

Middleburg

sarahseven

staceywinters

tinahdee

bethanylorelle

bpoetic

chicsindesigndotcom

Hopeless

Kcoline

lulubugjewelry

misterrob

NaturesCabinet

OneHundredYears

PeekoApparel

pinpinn

sherrytruitt

theblackapple

theenchantedcupboard

toosis

vrreis

annekiel

blisscandles

CarolinaCottage

chicsindesigndotcom

coup

eclu

elinart

imotime

JosephSpinaleFurn

kittybblove

lovemaestore

marysgranddaughter

marywibis

melaniefavreau

mooshoopork

MountainGirlClothing

paperacorn

paperdollwoodshop

ParadiseBodyShop

PearsonMaron

PipocaHandmade

RedMarionette

RitzyMisfit

SmallEarthVintage

Storied

Silvia66

thesmallobject

thevintagecloset

TimelessVixenVintage

tinywarbler

truLuxe

yystudio

Front Page / Gift guide favoritism

09-23-09
too much toybreaker
http://www.craftcult.com/etsyfeatured.php?userid=58778
go to craftcult.com
http://www.craftopolis.com/index.php?com=gg&user=toybreaker
7 gift guides?
Halloween Costumes
Wedding Attire
Fall Fashion
Slow Food (really, a silk screened tie is slow food?)
Him
Dad
Natural History

Hey careless, thoughtless admin favoritism...

Don't buy this shit, speak with your wallet.

The list

...will be updated periodically...

Don't buy from these people, don't heart them, don't put them in your treasuries...

Yokoo

Lirola

toybreaker

likekittysville

elementclaystudio

wondercabinet

ohmycavalier

PoleStar

creativedesignz