Does anything like the old Etsy Alchemy system exist?

April 26, 2015 11:43 AM

I used Etsy Alchemy several times when it still existed, and it worked well. I know you can still do 1:1 custom requests of individual Etsy sellers (and have used it - it's a little hit and miss), however the old 1:many request system is what I'm looking for. Any decent websites like that around?
posted by inflatablekiwi to Shopping (6 answers total)

I'd never heard of this, but it looks like they disabled it back in 2011 and promised they were working on something better? Which never appeared?

It looks like there might be some discussion groups that focus on this kind of thing here.

Hope that helps a little bit.
posted by doctor tough love at 11:59 AM on April 26, 2015 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Custom Made, perhaps?
posted by jacobian at 12:05 PM on April 26, 2015 [4 favorites]

Response by poster: I'd never heard of this, but it looks like they disabled it back in 2011 and promised they were working on something better? Which never appeared?

Yip that's pretty much what happened.....sucks because it was super awesome.

It looks like there might be some discussion groups that focus on this kind of thing

Thanks - did see that as well. Seems hit and miss like the 1:1 custom request option, but may give it a go.
posted by inflatablekiwi at 12:57 PM on April 26, 2015

Response by poster: Custom Made, perhaps?

That looks pretty close - will give it a try! Thanks!
posted by inflatablekiwi at 12:58 PM on April 26, 2015

Etsy does have an alchemy "team" set up, basically a subset of its forums, where you can post a request that will be seen by multiple sellers who can hopefully make what you're after.

I'll dig up a link in a bit, but the easiest way to find this is by googling "etsy forums," rather than going directly to Etsy... this is a pretty well-hidden function.
posted by jessicapierce at 9:02 PM on April 26, 2015 [1 favorite]

The only form of Etsy Alchemy is teams. The only sizeable, active team I know of is this one.
posted by DarlingBri at 12:57 PM on April 29, 2015