I only sell vintage items, but reselling on Etsy effects me, too!

Before my old computer died at the end of April, I used to spend about an hour each day reporting items listed on Etsy as vintage which were, in fact, brand new mass produced factory fresh pieces of (mostly) jewelry.  I kept a folder of bookmarked shops I reported, so I could check back in a few weeks and see what -- if anything -- the members of Etsy's Marketplace Integrity staff had done after receiving the report.  Usually after 3 weeks or so, a shop only selling new items as vintage would have been closed.  If the shop also sold other items, allowed on Etsy, the items not allowed had been removed.

So, I was a bit surprised to come back online at the end of May and see some shops selling new items as old still in business.  I wonder what's up with that?

I've decided to stop reporting shops or items that I find.  But I am bookmarking them, just to see if anyone else is reporting this stuff and what Etsy is doing about it.  So far, it looks like nothing is happening.

Just to be clear, I don't mean vintage sellers who are careless about research and think Pokémon, or Juicy Couture, or The Red Hat Society, or Harry Potter, are vintage (vintage = at least 20 years old for Etsy).   That's a different issue altogether.  I am talking about reselling brand new products you buy wholesale, a shop full of these. 

The way Etsy is starting to look, you can sell factory produced new mass made goods if you live in Asia, or have relatives or business associates in Asia, as handmade by you (!) because Etsy can consider your shop a "factory collective".  But if your only connection with Asia is where your wholesale source buys from the factory, you can sell the same items now as "vintage".  I hope that I am wrong about this, and the real problem is a work load backup for the Marketplace Integrity team.  But if the shops I reported months ago stay open, along with the new ones I found this month, vintage buyers need to look very carefully at prospective purchases on Etsy.  CAVEAT EMPTOR