Showing posts with label etsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label etsy. Show all posts

4.23.2009

I'm not that crafty, really

Honestly, how many people seriously thought the shitty looking Nintendo jewelry was for real or meant to be worn? Are any of you familiar with satire? Guess not. 
Well, here goes nothing....
Berlin told me she was tired dealing with all the Ebay bullshit and we should try another alternative way to sell our shit.  (By the way, that below is my wife Miss Berlin Deluxxe in case you forgot.)

So we said fuck it, let's open an account on the crunchy granola people site "Etsy".  Well fuck me. After minutes of posting our wares, other sellers and busybodies started talking shit about how technically our Nintendo consoles, games and accessories weren't really vintage and they were going to report us. 
They were acting like a bunch of 5 year old snitches. 
Fine. I read the fine print and even though a lot of my shit was 20 years+, which is considered "vintage" in Etsy standards, some wasn't. So what did I do? I disguised all my Nintendo paraphanelia as  wanna-be-generic-soap-on-a-rope style jewelry. I beat them at their own game. Bitches. A couple of enhanced breasts as a display rack didn't hurt either. 
Honestly, at first it was about making sales, but in the end it was just about good ol' fashion winning.
I've closed the shop now, and moved on.
Let's play some Monster Party and call it a night.


2.15.2009

Is circuit bending an art?


Is circuit bending an art? According to many at Etsy, it is not. I set up a shop on Etsy just this week in order to sell NES consoles, games and other vintage gaming paraphernalia either for use as is or as supplies for circuit bending. Immediately the Etsy Gestapo, shit I'm making them sound cool which is far off from my intentions, calls me out. You can read the thread HERE, you can also print it out and use it to pick up dog turds. According to them many many Nintendo products do not fall in their vintage category (products over 2o years old). I do admit to being unaware that some games fall a year or two behind from their "vintage" standards or anal retentive categories and the gameboy color is a newer item. Whoops! I didn't mean to ruin so many people's Valentine's Day. I think they should have been spending time getting some Valentine's ass than talking shit.
Anyways, I came up with a solution. I have handcrafted some fully functional NES jewelry. Yes, I'm part of the Etsy team now! *blushes* Check out my new items:





Circuit Benders and Vintage Gamers Rock!