Vintage Market is a moderated team with the following requirements:

Requirements:
-Maintain your shop at 75% or more true vintage
-Shop must be at least 30 days old
-Minimum of 30 true vintage items in your shop
-Good feedback (at least a 98% feeeback rating)
-Can not be on more than 10 other Etsy teams

Participation is required- and there are lots of ways to participate. Here's how:

Mandatory participation:
-Check in at least once per week on this page to stay updated on discussion topics
-Curate at least one VMTEAM treasury per month, and post in discussions (participation in the weekly VMTEAM treasury challenge counts towards this)
-Support the team and fellow team members on your Facebook fan pages, Twitter accounts and blogs- examples include tweeting treasuries you are mentioned in, RT'ing team searches, writing blog posts about promos, linking treasuries to fan pages, etc.

Optional particpation:
-Actively participate in the Facebook VMTEAM Chat Group
-Post in the monthly VMTEAM promotional forum thread
-Participate in our quarterly sales or seasonal treasury promotions
-Upload photos to VMTEAM Flickr account AND remove those images as items sell

*Members who are inactive will be removed from the team without warning after a 2 month period of non- participation.
If there is a reason you cannot participate, please let one of the leaders know.

-Tagging of your vintage items with the "vmteam" tag is one of the many benefits of membership. If you leave the team (or are removed), tags need to be removed from your listings. Non- removal of tags can result in being reported to Etsy.

-Mention of the VMTEAM in your shop announcement is appreciated, though not required.
-Be supportive of team and members at all times. Speak kindly!