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sourced by a seller - carefully curated from Temu?

• Moto7451 2y ago
  That’s often how it works now. My wife uses Etsy as a Pinterest for Temu. She just finds the original listing and orders it direct from Temu.
  • dspillett 2y ago
    It is also often the reverse: sellers on Temu (or Ali Express, or any number of other sites) selling knock-off versions of hand-crafted items spotted on Etsy and elsewhere. Heck, sometimes the knock-offs are sold on Etsy too, often using the original maker's images (I doubt the product received will be anything close to an exact match). A friend of mine doses corsetry and related clothing work and sells in part through Etsy, and occasionally has a significant problem with this.
    • Moto7451 2y ago
      It’s definitely a cycle. Pre-Temu/AliExpress I worked at a store that sold high end purpose made knives and low end “fantasy” knives. As soon as a factory was opened in China by a major brand the original (sans branding) would suddenly show up in the same catalog as the fantasy knives at 1/5 MSRP and an inferior knock off at 1/20th MSRP; all the high tech designer steels and plastics replaced by 440 and ABS or Micarta. It’s the way business is often done in their manufacturing economy.
• xivzgrev 2y ago
  I know what BS “The platform’s new rules require all items to incorporate “a human touch” as outlined by its creativity standards” That’s just as bad as hand crafted pizza in the frozen grocery aisle - yes at one point someone had to design this pizza, then they crank them out on a machine like everything else.
  • JohnFen 2y ago
    > at one point someone had to design this pizza, then they crank them out on a machine like everything else. Yep. By that measure, every mass-produced item you can buy was "hand crafted" at some point.