Re: Etsy is only for vintage aged items ?
A careful study of what is for sale on Etsy, and what kind of merchandise successful sellers have listed, will show that hundreds of thousands of shops are selling brand new, mass manufactured, products the seller purchased wholesale. And I don't mean supplies for crafting, which have always been allowed on the site.
The published guidelines outlining what can, and cannot, be listed for sale on the site as handmade or vintage are boilerplate. Leftovers from the original version of Etsy before it went public.
You can definitely sell brand new products as vintage. Years ago when I was an Etsy seller, I used to report items listed as vintage that were made by brands that weren't yet 20 years old (and aren't 20 years old even today as I type here). If you want to sell new (or new-ish) products as vintage on Etsy, you need to study shops that have been doing this successfully for years, and see how they work it.
Same thing with stuff purchased wholesale and then listed on Etsy as handmade and even "made to order". You have to do your research. There are hours worth of helpful reading online discussing reselling on Etsy including discussions of methods sellers use to convince shoppers their items were designed by them (handmade with production assistance) or designed and crafted by them. Some of the methods used are the result of mentoring by Etsy's Marketplace Integrity Team.
The last time I reported an item listed on Etsy for not being handmade, vintage, or crafting supplies was August 2015. Some of the shops listing the items I reported before then are still open on Etsy, and still reselling. Again, you have to know how to work it. I gave up reporting violations to Etsy, and began blogging about shops who resell and how they do it.
Etsy corporate most definitely wants mass produced items listed. Without those sellers and their listings, Etsy would be less than half the size it is today in terms of listing count and shop count. Not to mention sales $$$.
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