Wayfair trending on Twitter - Sex Trafficking?!

[SecretSquirreI]

Have you guys seen the stuff on Twitter about Wayfair products being named after missing children (a pillow case for $10k for example) and the theory it's human trafficking?

Blowing up the internet this evening.

Seems unlikely but is very very strange none the less!!

According to global missing kids.org 460k kids go missing a year in the US (absolutely awful

Good grief

I sent this to a friend a few months ago being like wtf. Could it possibly be true!? No other theory makes sense either



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@SchrodingersImmigrant

There should be an iq test before people can go online🤦

The internet would have more tumbleweed than people

I don’t believe it.

One of the main missing girls people were using to back up the theory was found hours after she went missing - no sex trafficking involved. There’s literal proof she was found but many of the conspiracy theorists were trying to deny this, as it didn’t fit their narrative.

The dark web exists, where horrible things like sex trafficking do take place. No criminal is going to choose to use a very public furniture website instead. And if they did, they wouldn’t be so obvious to use the names of the girls. They don’t want to get caught and face a lifetime in prison.

People love to jump on a conspiracy theory, especially when there’s some kind of macabre element to it.

Personally I'll continue to steer well clear of putting "codes" or entering anything else into a niche search engine, even if just for the sake of research.

Doing that sort of thing has got people into trouble in the past.

@Plumplumbadum

The models of items on offer have the same names of girls who have recently gone missing. People need to make their own minds up, but I know what I think.

Do you mean you actually think that wayfair are kidnapping children and selling them over the Internet by naming cabinets after them and delivering them to the people who purchase the cabinet??

They look like fire resistant cabinets to me, I store my papers in them at work. They are insanely heavy and certainly not cheap!

I wonder what (who!) will turn up if I order a Boris bed from John Lewis?

Bizarre, but surely the $9999 whereas others are $99.99 is completely obviously a typo, as in somebody thought that they were typing EPOS style (where you type in pennies/cents) and the site was actually getting the price normally where you have to put the decimal point in manually.

Naming items after missing children is a bit weird/creepy though and the search results from the russian site sound odd :(

Wayfair doesn't only sell their own products. They have third party sales through their site, like amazon. So it's highly likely that one of those third party sellers could be up to something dodgy, masked by the trustworthy name of the front end branding.

460k missing kids in US - I expect a good proportion of those are familial abductions e.g. separated parents having a custody dispute. It is still a lot though :( I think because of the states not always being joined up with systems, paperwork etc that can make it easier to "disappear" within the system. Although that could also account for some of the missing kids - children moving states with their families but the proper paperwork not being completed.

Ah yes runaways being entered multiple times is also a reason they are so inflated!

Can't speak for wayfair, but here's an (old) blog about why some Amazon items have ludicrous prices (hint: it's nothing sinister)

www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

The pillow is £48 or dollars?

It’s all bollocks but at the same time it’s a bizarre coincidence and stupidly priced items

OK, I clicked on the article - they are just first names, albeit unusual ones - if there are that many missing kids in the US then it's not THAT surprising you'd find children/women with the same names on the list

Do you mean you actually think that wayfair are kidnapping children and selling them over the Internet by naming cabinets after them and delivering them to the people who purchase the cabinet??

Apparently so. I can’t decide if this level of idiocy is hilarious or terrifying. 🤷‍♀️

@BigBadVoodooHat

Do you mean you actually think that wayfair are kidnapping children and selling them over the Internet by naming cabinets after them and delivering them to the people who purchase the cabinet??

Apparently so. I can’t decide if this level of idiocy is hilarious or terrifying. 🤷‍♀️

The latter...

The way one person can cause harm to a business with a single tin hat allegation is very alarming.

The vast, vast majority of kids who “go missing” are:
Children who vanish for completely innocent reasons who are found soon after the police are called (like children who lie and say their parents gave permission to go to a friend’s house).

Abduction by non-custodial parent or as part of custody battles, which includes mothers “abducting” their children so they can’t be forced to spend time with abusive fathers.

Teen runaways.

All three categories count towards missing children statistics. Not to mention children who have accidents (like in a park or at the beach) or who become lost without any human intervention.

Strangers snatching children is vanishingly rare. The vast majority of trafficking victims are extremely vulnerable women and children who will not be missed, and for the most part they are coerced or groomed into it. Almost all sexual abuse and kidnapping is from people known to the victim.

It’s horrifying, but the myth that the Clintons/Obama/Beyoncé/huge companies are part of some huge evil conspiracy to go around snatching random strange kids on the street is pure fantasy.

I don't know how things are in the states but in the UK, one child in foster care can account for 20-50 + missing reports per year!
Some teenagers will report back in to placement then go again several times a week, each time generating a new missing report.
I'm not suggesting this isn't a problem or a matter of concern for their safety but it does not indicate an organised child trafficking ring masterminded by a cheap furniture and home furnishings company.

@BillywilliamV

I wonder what (who!) will turn up if I order a Boris bed from John Lewis?

Ikea have been in on this for years. Millions of men called Billy, kidnapped and sold for £20 under the guise of a flat packed book case

This is the perfect example of why Trump is in charge right now.

Now I can’t believe I’m going to ask this, but who’s Paul?

I believe this refers to the Paul McCartney conspiracy theory (that he died and was replaced at the height of the Beatle’s fame).

@OnSilverStars

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Blimey - even Barclays are in on it! You can even get finance for your newly trafficked child. So do we reckon the name is "Sea", "Salt" or "Sage"?

What’s the pizza thing?