What To Sell on MAC Marketplace
We accept all makers, artists, and collectors to this marketplace. However, we also want to ensure this marketplace stays true to our core beliefs in our sellers have a hand in the creation or acquisition of their products. Here is an article of our point of view.
The makers, artists, and collectors (MAC) marketplace is only accepting sellers who fit into one of the categories of being a maker, being an artists, and being a collector. We’ll cover each top category and then we’ll describe what we don’t accept on the marketplace as opposed of listing individual item. If after reading this article, you have a question on your item, please drop us an email and we can confirm if that item is allowed.
WHAT IS A MAKER
What maker products are accepted
The way we define a maker is someone who takes a raw material and designs, constructs, and makes the physical product. Some examples of the products would be candles, knitted products, crocheted products, embroidered products, jewelry makers, someone who makes sculptures. A maker could also be a seller of plants and other plant related products.
A maker could also be a maker of confections and other food products like sweet desserts, candied nuts, candies, jellies, jams, and many more to mention. In this same area, are tincture makers, distillers, and other makers of spirits, and other drinkable products whether it contains alcohol or not.
A maker could also be someone who repurposes an existing item and makes it into something completely different. An example of this was from one of my clients I used to pick for in my younger days. He wanted me to find old wooden cigar boxes. He turned them into musical instruments.
As you can see, this list is too vast and numerous to itemize all the different possibilities in this category.
What maker products are not accepted
Although the list of acceptable products are many, there are some we cannot allow. Any product not handmade or handcrafted will not be allowed. This includes digitally created images imprinted onto t-shirts, coffee mugs or other drinkware vessels, stickers, or other articles of clothing in which you personally did not handmake. This also includes any drop ship products where you have a supplier make the product and ship it to your customer.
CDB products are also not allowed at this time. We may allow CDB products in the future once the marketplace is setup to legally allow our vendors to sell this product line.
Although we do allow for alcohol and spirits to be sold in our marketplace, make note there is a caveat. There are some states where alcohol is not legal to sell and ship into their state and is actually a federal crime. For our policy, as a seller of this type of product, you must have your license, and we will require proof prior to uploading these types of products onto your online store.
The states where shipping (or selling) alcohol online is illegal are: Alabama, Alaska, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Utah. Idaho is a little different in that wine is allowed to be sold and shipped to the customer. All other alcoholic beverages are not allowed to be shipped into Idaho. For those of you who will sell alcohol products, your shipping area will be limited to exclude the states where this type of product is illegal to sell or ship into that state.
This should go without saying, but we’ll clearly emphasize it here for transparency. We do not accept and allow any handmade and/or homemade drugs to be sold in this marketplace.
WHAT IS AN ARTIST
What art products are acceptable
As vast a list of the products under the maker category, the artist category is equally big. An artist can take on many forms from photography, sketching, painting, sculpting, metal forging, and welding just to name a few. An artist can also be someone who repurposes broken and old items to creates art from it. For an example, I’ve seen incredible art made from old watches, old wrenches and tools, old keys, old kitchen tins, and the list goes on.
An artist medium is not just the traditional paint on canvas, and it includes all mediums. For example, I’ve seen artist used recycled materials and turn them into a fabulous one of a kind art piece. That is just one example of what products would be included in the artist category.
What art products are not acceptable
With the newest trends around artificial intelligence (AI) and computer generated images, we do not accept any art created from or rendered from a digital form and imprinted on a physical product. We want all our sellers to have a physical hand in the making of their art form.
Regarding the area of photography, we don’t allow for downloadable or digital pictures at this time. Perhaps in the future we will enable that function. Also to be clear, pornographic art of any kind is not permissible. This is different in sculptures or paintings of nudes, which we consider an art form.
WHAT IS A COLLECTOR
Collectors come from all areas from antiques, vintage, and collectible items. Some items are older than 100 years old which by definition is a true antique. Some items are vintage and are old but not yet considered an antique. The vintage is enormous and covers many genre from fashion to music, from stationary to glass and other hard objects.
Some examples in this group can be a collection old postcards, old cook books, fashion jewelry from the past, vintage clothing, kitchenware, drinkware, vintage Christmas ornaments, and other functional items. Others could be more on the fun and whimsical like vintage and antique toys, vintage metal signs, old metal lunch boxes, hot wheel cars, vintage hand tools, vintage electrical small appliances, old typewriters, photography equipment, vinyl albums, and many, many more. Collections could also be of sports related and newer products like the latest trading cards, and other memorabilia.
SUMMARY
So that we are clear, makers, artists, and collectors have a wide array of products we would accept in the marketplace. We’ve also called out products not accepted in each of the above categories. The exclusion list also trickles into any sub-category we may create now or in the future. As we’ve called out, some are because of legal reasons and some are because we want to ensure this marketplace continues to support makers, artists, and collectors who have their hands in on their product creation and acquisitions.
If you have a question on an item you want to sell and unsure if it is acceptable, please send us an inquiry to info@macmarketplc.com and we’ll address your concerns as soon as we can.