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To wonder why this Amazon search returned "adult" items?

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broohahah · 21/07/2019 20:37

On Amazon, I navigated to Sports & Outdoors -> Volleyball -> Training Equipment. This returned a few things that might be considered relevant, but scrolling further down the page gives some rather surprising alternative results on an 'adult' theme.

Can anyone explain to me why? Does 'volleyball' have some other meaning I'm not aware of?

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broohahah · 21/07/2019 21:15

Or is it just me?

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picklemepopcorn · 21/07/2019 21:16

Would it be pelvic floor training equipment? Like Kegel Balls?

MyFokMarelize · 21/07/2019 21:16

I’m sure you’ll get many more answers once everyone has finished performing the exact same search 😂😂

picklemepopcorn · 21/07/2019 21:20

Nope, I don't get anything like that.. well, just the rather hideous electrical hip trainer.

EllenEyewater · 21/07/2019 21:21

Gosh.

Well, I guess the outfits can be rather revealing. Perhaps it’s to... help... with that?

picklemepopcorn · 21/07/2019 21:22

Ah. Ok. Take it all back.

randomchap · 21/07/2019 21:25

If those are volleyball training equipment I think I've been doing volleyball wrong.

Oysterbabe · 21/07/2019 21:25
Shock Gosh, that was unexpected.
PawPawNoodle · 21/07/2019 21:26

Goodness me! As an aside they look very futuristic nowadays!

I had a quick look under a few other sports 'training equipment' sections and they have similar results (in fact some a bit worse) so I think it's the 'training' element of the marketing for these particular items getting mistagged and ending up in sport sections.

DrDreReturns · 21/07/2019 21:26

Female volleyball? Aka boobs bouncing up and down!

Oysterbabe · 21/07/2019 21:27

I'm going to get some really bloody interesting shopping suggestions next time I log on after looking at those.

geekone · 21/07/2019 21:29

Ha, I had to look BlushGrin hands free and realistic voice 🤣

Freshprincess · 21/07/2019 21:30

Well, that's an interesting piece of volleyball equipment.

This is going to appear in my suggestions for weeks now. Why do I never learn?

Oysterbabe · 21/07/2019 21:32

And now these are the ads I'm getting.

katseyes7 · 21/07/2019 21:33

l've used that exact same search and l'm just getting sports equipment! Am l missing something?

dawnc27 · 21/07/2019 21:34

i must say volleyballs come a long way since i last played at school!!

geekone · 21/07/2019 21:36

Oh I didn’t click phew

CinnabarRed · 21/07/2019 21:41

I’m only getting sports equipment!

MollyButton · 21/07/2019 21:42

For me they appear on about page 3.

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broohahah · 21/07/2019 21:47

The strange thing is that there's an "Excluding adult items" option on the page which is selected by default. I dread to think what I'd get if I changed it to "Show All Results"!

To wonder why this Amazon search returned "adult" items?
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UpToonGirl · 21/07/2019 21:48

Nothing showing up for me, I'm on page 12!

Barabajagal · 21/07/2019 21:48

Oh my!

Barabajagal · 21/07/2019 21:49

Eek, I hope I’ve switched off targeted ads!

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broohahah · 21/07/2019 21:50

@Oysterbabe ... Sorry, I should have warned you to do the search in your browser's incognito mode to stop that happening!

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UpToonGirl · 21/07/2019 21:52

Ah, hadn't filtered to 'training equipment'....Is anyone else gutted there aren't any reviews?!