At least it was handmade. I'm not averse to paying artisans for their work. In this case, though, the thing is in itself pretty unattractive. Maybe if you grew up eating Little Debbie cakes it has some sentimental value?
I only skimmed the article, but I got the impression the whole brouhaha may have been engineered to rack up views on Tiktok.
Yeah, it stinka of being entirely manufactured drama, especially since the article said that Etsy buyer/seller drama is like a whole genre of popular viral content. It's just too absurd.
Both participants are happy to share their correspondence with Insider, but neither seems to have a narrative that they want to explain. The seller is essentially like "yeah I was a rude bitch, I was upset" and then giving Insider access to material that makes her look bad??
Seems totally staged and successfully so if their videos are getting millions of views.
But yeah that's a hideous plastic cup and no one should have ever paid $200 for that, even if it was perfect.