You too can b(art)er!

For those of you who can't make it out to the Labs for the b(art)er event (see post below), we've come up with an online version!

How to Play:
1. Send an email to danielle@etsy.com. You need to be one of the first 30 artist to respond because space is limited. You must also be a mostly 2-D artist eg. painter, printmaker.

2. If you make it in time I will send you a link to our Flickr group. Post the piece of art you would like to barter in the Flickr group photo pool. How do you do that? Upload the pic into your flickr account. After you do that you will see the option to "add this photo to a group" select Etsy b(art)er. Its that easy!

2. After all the entries have been added to the flickr group you will
then have to rank each item in the group on a scale from 1(low) to
5(high). DO NOT DO THIS IN FLICKR. This will be done privately and you will given instructions via email on how to vote. Each vote is turned into points. Voting is private and you will not know where your points are at EVER, sorry.

3. You can also win points by answering skill testing questions,
completing scavenger hunts, and other secret contest we'll divulge once the online bARTer game starts.

4. The points you have won will be added to your voted score. This will decide which piece of art you will be trading your own piece with. For example - the person with the most points will trade with the person in second place, third and fourth place with swap, fifth and sixth and so on. You will not know where you are in the ranking - you will only find out which item you have "won". You will be given the etsy name of your counterpart and you both will be responsible for working out the shipping details. Hopefully we won't have any problems but if we do - there is nothing we can do here at the labs to make that person play nice, sorry.

5. Enjoy your new piece of art!

So again - send an email to danielle@etsy.com to get started. Only visual 2-D artist for now. If this works out fabulously perhaps we'll make it an ongoing game and get other Etsyians involved!

xo
Danielle