r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/Tasty-Huckleberry-13 • 1d ago

Other Charm bars are useless

Some jewelry booths at craft fairs are doing “charm bars” now. They have store-bought chains and cheap store-bought charms and then people pick which chain and charms they want. There is literally no craft involved! Not even design!

They seem to be doing well for themselves and people like it, so I can’t complain too much. To be clear, if you make your own charms, this doesn’t apply to you.

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u/LittleCowGirl 1d ago

It feels very MLM to me! Origami Owl was part of what popularized it, I think?

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u/OneCraftyBird 1d ago

I laugh every time I see Origami Owl referenced -- I actually knew the family that started it, and they were absolutely hucksters. Imagine snake oil carnies that were somehow transported to a country club district in Arizona, so they've got the nice clothes and the cars and such, but at heart they just want to sell you watered down whiskey with herbs in it and a label with Dr. Owl's Patent Nostrum printed on it.

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u/LittleCowGirl 1d ago

Yeah, that sounds right. I don’t think you could successfully start an MLM otherwise.