: "I vowed to never again speak in the first-person voice on this blog" - Nail polish fandom drama
Summary: Popular nail polish creator encourages her distributor to crack down on people selling her polish at inflated prices on eBay. One well-known seller turns out to be the creator’s brother, thereby screwing over the distributor quite a lot.
Thank you very much to the anon on wank_report for this one. Much of your wording is used in this post. I tried to make this as succinct as possible but Lynnderella’s posts are a gold mine of pomposity, pretension, wilful obtuseness and trite New Age platitudes. I highly recommend reading every one.
Background
Lynnderella's an indie polish maker who does glitter nail polishes that people really, really like. There's tons of hype surrounding her polishes in the blogosphere. However, she's only one person and refuses to get more help in making her polishes as she's afraid of people ripping off her secret glitter sources/recipes.
The laws of supply and demand took effect. People began selling her nail polishes on eBay where some have fetched hundreds of dollars. (This one recently sold for $600 US.) Lynnderella and Llarowe (the distributor of Lynn’s polishes, also known as Leah Ann) decided to crack down on eBayers.
Some info on the ordering process to fully understand this drama: Lynnderellas are sold through Llarowe through a ‘wishlist’ system. Llarowe tells people when wishlists are. People email what colors they want. Llarowe takes their names in alphabetical order and goes down the wishlists to send people invoices. People pay. Llarowe send the polishes. When Llarowe has extra inventory, she puts them up in a flash sale. People who are caught buying Lynnderellas to sell on eBay are blacklisted from ever purchasing again.
( It begins! )
( Bonus mini-wank from the past )
ETA: Another document is posted with information that strongly suggests Lynnderella is using shill bidders on eBay to drive up the prices of her polishes. (There are comments from people saying they've seen her polishes go for $800 and even $1,000.) Not long after the document posted, people apparently still saw that same bidder driving up the prices but never winning an auction. Lynnderella then changes the settings so that all bidders are listed as 'private listing - bidders' identities protected'. Some of her polishes are now bidding at $700. Here's an ONTD thread about the drama, which takes place in a post about nail polish that contains actual gold flakes and will retail for $38 US. According to one comment, someone did an in-depth investigation into the shill bidding and Lynnderella threatened them with a lawsuit. There's also a comment in there from someone saying they've seen the bidding on one of her polishes go for almost $1,300.
Summary: Popular nail polish creator encourages her distributor to crack down on people selling her polish at inflated prices on eBay. One well-known seller turns out to be the creator’s brother, thereby screwing over the distributor quite a lot.
Thank you very much to the anon on wank_report for this one. Much of your wording is used in this post. I tried to make this as succinct as possible but Lynnderella’s posts are a gold mine of pomposity, pretension, wilful obtuseness and trite New Age platitudes. I highly recommend reading every one.
Background
Lynnderella's an indie polish maker who does glitter nail polishes that people really, really like. There's tons of hype surrounding her polishes in the blogosphere. However, she's only one person and refuses to get more help in making her polishes as she's afraid of people ripping off her secret glitter sources/recipes.
The laws of supply and demand took effect. People began selling her nail polishes on eBay where some have fetched hundreds of dollars. (This one recently sold for $600 US.) Lynnderella and Llarowe (the distributor of Lynn’s polishes, also known as Leah Ann) decided to crack down on eBayers.
Some info on the ordering process to fully understand this drama: Lynnderellas are sold through Llarowe through a ‘wishlist’ system. Llarowe tells people when wishlists are. People email what colors they want. Llarowe takes their names in alphabetical order and goes down the wishlists to send people invoices. People pay. Llarowe send the polishes. When Llarowe has extra inventory, she puts them up in a flash sale. People who are caught buying Lynnderellas to sell on eBay are blacklisted from ever purchasing again.
( It begins! )
( Bonus mini-wank from the past )
ETA: Another document is posted with information that strongly suggests Lynnderella is using shill bidders on eBay to drive up the prices of her polishes. (There are comments from people saying they've seen her polishes go for $800 and even $1,000.) Not long after the document posted, people apparently still saw that same bidder driving up the prices but never winning an auction. Lynnderella then changes the settings so that all bidders are listed as 'private listing - bidders' identities protected'. Some of her polishes are now bidding at $700. Here's an ONTD thread about the drama, which takes place in a post about nail polish that contains actual gold flakes and will retail for $38 US. According to one comment, someone did an in-depth investigation into the shill bidding and Lynnderella threatened them with a lawsuit. There's also a comment in there from someone saying they've seen the bidding on one of her polishes go for almost $1,300.