Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts

Friday, 17 June 2011

Items not worth the money: Seller- paisleybaby

While looking through a shop that's featured on Heartsy today, I came across a store belonging to  paisleybaby
She sells handmade bags & and mostly over priced baby/kids accessories. Anyhow I really liked her hooded towels, and I saw the price of $35 next to the listing titles.I figured it included at least two maybe 3 towels. But I opened the listing right up, and  nope it's just one! It's damn cheap terry towel with fabric! WTF They used to be cheaper, I believe $18(maybe cheaper IIRC) per towel until they were featured on Parents.com! Like come on. Think of the NON-wealthier people or parents with more than one spoiled child, will ya?  SNOB! 









A few other items she has that are over-priced are: (No pics here, just clicks links to see pics)
$22 for a freakin' wet bag to put dirty nappies and cloth pads in, really? Maybe I'm cheap and miserable, but I would rather use these. Ziploc Dry bags
$18 for a shoe bag!
$28 for a changing pad! Come on, yeah it's pretty but it's for changing kids butts on! and not to mention it's just two pieces of cloth stitch together!
$11 for ONE baby bib? that will only be stained with strained peas and carrots in a less than a week?
$20 for a small zipper pouch
I admit this stuff is cute, the material is pretty and I'm sure Paisley puts a lot of work into it.
But so does THESE people, and they're not inflating costs because they think they're a damn celebrity designer because they were  featured on Parents.com Wugh!
I can provide SO many more links to amazing underrated more "un-popular" sellers who have awesome items as mentioned, but here's just a few! 

Here's a similar towel from a cute shop. AllSeasonCrafts For only AND it includes 2 cute cloths. But again, this seller wasn't featured on Parents.com so she is SOOL.








Another cheaper towel from inkydinkdesigns same style for only $19. And a lot cuter than Paisleys IMO.












PSA-People interested in this cute stuff, weigh your options and do a good search, you will find more decent sellers to buy from!

Here are most sellers with the same style of 'wet bags' as Paisley with DECENT prices.

Threadbarestitcher sells  a similar and  very cute wet and for only 6 bucks!










brendasbabyjackets sells her cute wet bags for only $10!










Here are some similar sellers who sell shoe bags similar to P's.

mymommymadeit is selling adorable AND afforadble shoe bags for only $5.50









So is GrandmaJansCorner for only $7.50











Similar changing pads from other shops. But again AFFORDABLE!

rubberduckbutt for only $5 








or from nbjohnston10 for only $8!










Baby bibs!!

This seller RibbonsandRaspberrie is asking only $5 for this cute little thing!












This seller WeeLittlePea is also only asking $5 for hers. Adorable! and exact same style 












Lastly examples of the same style zipper pouches!

JPATPURSES is only asking  $9 for this cute pouch.















teniamariecreations is selling this large flat bottomed pouch for only $8! Adorable!









Well that's it.  
I can see why someone would want to take advantage of the Heartsy deal. It's the only way they'll be able to afford it! (lol)



Friday, 10 June 2011

Today's WTF Listing! Does your fasha like soap?

He will LOVE this, right?! 
Well I've  been on a searching for soap kick lately, and I just came across THIS atrocious piece of blech "soap'' 
People would do just about anything to make a few bucks. I wonder how long it took him to "create" it?! It looks like piece poop manipulated into a shaped soap with the word "dad" written on it with permanent marker. Is it camo? is it something the sellers KID made? I don't get it. And he's selling for full price too! (lol) 
 
Why?
Look at the huge gouge in it! LOL


 View it or buy it HERE..if you really like it.

I love this site too! (Craft Count)


  
Great site to show you who is who on etsy and where they rank! 

A website brought to from the Etsy by Numbers blog, which will be of interest to sellers on Etsy or people thinking about selling on Etsy BUT it's always super tool for us buyers!  It uses the number of units sold over the complete lifetime of the store, Craft Count lists the top selling Etsy stores. The site tracks the top 100 sellers with over 1000 sales in each category.
This information can be viewed in three ways:
  • Summary - as a summary of top selling Etsy stores overall, within handmade, supplies and vintage.
  • Country - top selling Etsy stores broken down by country.
  • Category - top selling Etsy stores broken down by Etsy category.
This information is publicly available from the Etsy website, however what Craft Count does is to pull the information together in an easy to access format using the Etsy API. Craft Count is not affiliated to Etsy. 

Interesting Insight 
 Information can be found on the Craft Count information page about how Etsy sellers can go about changing their information, for instance changing the category that they are listed in. Sellers can also ask for their stores to be excluded from the figures. 

What research tools do you use for business. Do you use tools such as Craft Count or do you have other methods for researching the market?