@Carol, the T-shirt shop selling items purchased wholesale from The Mountain is against Etsy's policies pertaining to handmade. You are allowed to use outside manufacturers but what is being sold, is supposed to have been created and designed by you/seller on etsy. Here's part of their app. You should also include images demonstrating your design process. Photos of your original sketches, plans, patterns, prototypes, or any other steps in the development of your designs should be uploaded here.
So, unless they are creating the artwork, they shouldn't be selling them but they have sold a ton...and of course etsy makes money when they do. Just to make it more 'authentic', their profile page says this: every t-shirt we sew is really a group effort, my husband, measure's, patterns, and cuts out the material, which is already screen printed from the company. The unfinished t-shirts, are mostly bottom hems needing stitching, sleeves requiring stitching, and we also receive the material already with a screen print image, that requires a lot more work, in making this a complete ready to sell t-shirt. We have two son's who also help with this process, my eldest picks up the bundles at the company, and my youngest, who is autistic, loves to help fold and get them ready for shipping.
I buy the screen prints already printed on the material, then we sew them into a t-shirt, sizing and cutting to fit size guidelines, most of our t-shirts are unisex either men's or woman's, or children's.
Really? I don't think so...it should be obvious they are not making these shirts but I'm glad the images are licensed for The Mountain!
