How to select a collaborator when selling Vintage and there is none

[LifetimeTreasures59]

I have been selling for years on other platforms, and as some friends have successful ETSY shops, I decided to list my vintage items there.  (Such a big collection from estates of family members, since I am an only child, and also save everything, including all of my childhood toys and memories.)

I don't know what to select for the collaborator choice (I think that is the term.)  I am selling items made by someone else, but most are over 50 years old and were things I have had all of my life or inherited.   

Can someone walk me through the best practice and HOW to effectively share an Antique or Vintage listing?   I have had 2 sales, and one was international, but I'm still not sure I have the correct settings on my items. 

Thanks. 

[Sassydoggs]

If your item is vintage, you click on the Who made it box, and in the drop down, choose another company or person.  In the What is it box, choose Finished product (or  supply), and in the When was it made, you choose before 2004, or the appropriate era.  Any item made before 2004 will allow you to list as vintage and you will not be asked for a production partner. 

[TimeSpanTreasures]

I have been selling vintage and antique items on Etsy for years, and I don't know what you mean by "collaborator choice".

When I list, I select that it's an item made by another company or person, a finished product, and select the time period that applies. 

If someone is selling hand made items, and they are using a production partner, then they have to disclose/select that option when listing.

This doesn't apply to vintage items, which must be 20 years old to follow Etsy's rules on selling vintage items.

[vintageNCtreasures]

Are you referring to how you'd list the vintage items??
Not sure what you mean by collaborator choice.
If you're referring to the "Production partner" that is ONLY used for items that YOU designed and are made by another person/company.
It's not for vintage items.

1. Under "who made it", you select "another person/company" (that is unless YOU made the vintage item and if so you'd select "I did").

2. Under "what is it", you select a finished item or "a supply or tool to make things".
3. Under "when was it made" if you know when it was made you select that decade.
If you're not sure exactly what decade it was made but are 100% sure it's at least 20 years old, you select "before 2004".

I don't see any return policies on your listings I looked at.
Since you are selling to the EU/UK countries you MUST have a return/refund policy and have to give a buyer 30 days (14 days to contact you and 14 days to return) since they're not a 28 day you have to select 30 days.

Without a return policy a buyer from the EU/UK has 1 year to return an item for any reason for a full refund and since you don't have policies, they'd keep the item. If you want it back, you'd have to pay return shipping.

Plus if a problem should arise with an order and buyer from the EU/UK opens a case, Etsy more than likely would refund from "your" funds because you don't have legal policies for EU/UK countries.

[HbarNCraftworks]

Do you possibly mean production partner?
If you are selling vintage you do not have to add that, it is only for people who have someone else making their designs.

[ThingsEtc7]

Not anymore 

[hopeandjoystudios]

It sounds like you may be trying to list a handmade vintage item as handmade..that will get you in the production partner loop. List it as VINTAGE even if it was handmade. Vintage handmade here is VINTAGE. You can say it is a vintage handmade item in the description but use the vintage category. Details on how to above.

[Amaradorn]

'Handmade' on Etsy means handmade or designed by you, the shop owner. If you did not make/design it and it is not vintage (20+ years old) and not craft supply/tool then it cannot be sold on Etsy. This is all explained in the seller policies: https://www.etsy.com/legal/sellers/