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crumbledog · 29/04/2024 21:32

It’s pathetic and insulting to men. It might grab your attention, but I doubt anyone is buying it cause you can see someone’s arse, so why bother pissing of potential female customers. Might as well post a picture of Mr Blobby if you just want to differentiate yourself from vendors with just boring ole pictures of safes.

nothingsforgotten · 28/04/2024 23:16

HelloWorld68 · 28/04/2024 15:09

The saddest part of this thread is the posters who don't see anything wrong with it.

I assume younger posters who didn't have to put with this shit pushed into their faces when growing up.

The fact that it is (probably) against advertising standards tells you all you need to know. There is something wrong with it.

I'm not far off 65 and I couldn't care less about it! It didn't bother me when I was young, and it doesn't bother me now.

orchiddottyback · 28/04/2024 22:37

CantBelieveNaive · 28/04/2024 22:23

@Hateam I work in marketing. It's only effective if it leads to a sale, this doesn't so it's not effective. It's the opposite of what 51% of the population wants to see. They'll never get a sale from me or most of mumsnet. Women make 70% of the buying decisions in the home these days. Get back in your box.

"It's only effective if it leads to a sale, this doesn't so it's not effective"

I must say not very good at marketing if you cant even see that it is producing sales , as proven by the sellers very own sales post 😂

As for those acusing people like me of not being female, ect because we dont agree with you is equally as bad at trying to prove a point, when your 100% incorrect. But hey crack on, if you cannot handle the fact other cultures or sellers from other countries that have alternative ways of advertising then that is for you to deal with. the rest of us will just carry one and chuckle to ourselfs at all the faux outrage.

So please to all the MNer on here who dislike this so much, hop on a plane to china and get their sellers to change their ways.

To think the photo on this eBay listing is inappropriate?
CantBelieveNaive · 28/04/2024 22:23

@Hateam I work in marketing. It's only effective if it leads to a sale, this doesn't so it's not effective. It's the opposite of what 51% of the population wants to see. They'll never get a sale from me or most of mumsnet. Women make 70% of the buying decisions in the home these days. Get back in your box.

Topsyturvy78 · 28/04/2024 22:00

MichaelatheMechanic · 28/04/2024 12:46

I'm not a prude. Just don't see what the gap betweeen Daisy Duke's legs has got to do with a safe box....

I used to work with a few men some of the discussions they used to have wouldn't be acceptable these days as I was 16 when I started there on a YTS placement. They used to call lady part's your box because you put things in it basically.

Desperatelyneedabreak · 28/04/2024 21:38

Yes because we don't agree with you we are men. 😴

Ifallelsefailschocolate · 28/04/2024 21:21

Screamingabdabz · Today 21:10
Posters who ‘don’t see an issue’ with blatent sexual objectification of women’s bodies. Wtf. Not like regular women…they’re cool women 🙄

or men using MN

Screamingabdabz · 28/04/2024 21:10

Posters who ‘don’t see an issue’ with blatent sexual objectification of women’s bodies. Wtf. Not like regular women…they’re cool women 🙄

Hateam · 28/04/2024 20:04

CantBelieveNaive · 28/04/2024 18:35

... If you're creepy

You've posted a message about it. You've just made it more effective.

Polishedshoesalways · 28/04/2024 19:44

I find it disgusting and objectifying too op.

Polishedshoesalways · 28/04/2024 19:37

You can simply refuse to order from this company.

You can make a complaint to both eBay and the company

Voodoohoodoyoudo · 28/04/2024 19:09

Because essentially most men are simple creatures and will probably buy it because of that picture. As an ex pole dancer I know how their little pea brains work 🤣

PlipPlopChoo · 28/04/2024 19:07

Cannot see the problem. Maybe bum jealousy.

TeaGinandFags · 28/04/2024 19:05

Bbq1 · 28/04/2024 18:50

And women are happily feeding these predelictions snd happily making money from it. Sadly sex sells

People pay for unwashed shreddies?

My laundry must be worth a fortune.

mynameisR · 28/04/2024 19:04

I agree OP, it is awful and so very sad that so many on here don't see it as a problem.

TeaGinandFags · 28/04/2024 19:03

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TeaGinandFags · 28/04/2024 19:02

legalseagull · 28/04/2024 12:52

But how else would buyers know that women will want to shag them if they buy the super manly product

I don't want to shag manly men.

I want Daisy Duke's oversized spanner.
It will help with those men shk only think about shagging.

Bbq1 · 28/04/2024 18:50

peakygold · 28/04/2024 15:10

There are A LOT worse things on ebay! You can buy lollipops which have been sucked (listings have appropriate photos), tights which have allegedly been worn by air stewardesses (with sexy photos), used/dirty underwear, and all sorts of other questionable things to satisfy the predilections of men. I used to report them occasionally, but I can't be bothered now.

And women are happily feeding these predelictions snd happily making money from it. Sadly sex sells

CantBelieveNaive · 28/04/2024 18:36

Boomer55 · 28/04/2024 16:32

Publicity via social media. It’s worked.🙄

Yes but we're not buying in a million years! 😉

CantBelieveNaive · 28/04/2024 18:35

Hateam · 28/04/2024 16:59

It's a very effective ad.

... If you're creepy

CantBelieveNaive · 28/04/2024 18:33

orchiddottyback · 28/04/2024 16:30

@MichaelatheMechanic So do you usually dislike the way foreign and eastern countries cultures and sales practices differ from your own. Do you generally dislike the chinese cultural norms ect, because that is quite a xenephobic display there.

You obviously spent long enough on that ebay listing to reaslise they were a chinese seller, listing like most eastern sellers do on auction and sales sites like Ali express, Yahoo auctions, Mercari, Rakuten Rakuma, ect. That is what global selling is like, so maybe rather than trying to enforce your xenphobic views and western values on to eastern countries and listing practrices you dont like, you should do like most other normal buyers do and scroll on by if you dont like it.

for me I see no issue in that listing. Its not for me to force my values upon them. That add is hurting no one its pretty common practice on most world wide sales sites.

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Wow @orchiddottyback you don't get it at all. Using women's bodies to sell is not ok. It never really was but we put up with it as it was the "norm" but we are no longer in the 1970s and women are now valued as humans, not objects.
It has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with the view of women for the male gaze.
What year were you born and are you male? It's a strange POV for a woman's app.

walnutcoffee · 28/04/2024 18:32

Looks a bit like the sort of poster my son would have in his room when he was 16.
Tbh i take no notice of things online.

CantBelieveNaive · 28/04/2024 18:12

Clicked on seller feedback and sent this 🥴

To think the photo on this eBay listing is inappropriate?
CalmConfident · 28/04/2024 18:11

I got roasted on here a few years ago for being exasperated with Halfords children’s bikes naming conventions. Told I was making a fuss….still bugs me 🤬

CurlewKate · 28/04/2024 18:10

@ButWhatAboutTheBees ""Womening wrong" is a well used phrase on MN to mean "not following the expected narrative"

I know. But I have never seen anyone saying "You're womaning wrong" I have only heard it used by women who are rejecting a feminist narrative, and are happy to sign up to a misogynist mindset, so feel that others have said it to them.

And yes, I also know that women and men, but usually women have been sexualised in advertising. That's no reason to perpetuate it, surely?

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