Wayfair trending on Twitter - Sex Trafficking?!

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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!!

I highly recommend a lot of you listen to the Trafficking episode of the podcast “you’re wrong about”

It's probably a PR stunt - no such thing as bad publicity etc. They use the find out the secret of London's best homes Style of fake news /advertising too.

Another American company propping up the American economy by selling in the uk but not paying taxes therefore undercutting those companies that have to. So no pesky VAT to charge instead done kind of dodgy 'arrangement' with HMRC.

Wayfair may not be involved in child trafficking but they do supply beds to child detention centres, which is reason enough never to use them: www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-48772589?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15944625960367&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

This is the kind of crazy nonsense I need today. Buggy website or child trafficking?

To be fair I’ve always thought Wayfair was overpriced, I didn’t realise you get children thrown in for free. You’d think that if Wayfair was a cover for trafficked children, they would try and keep it on the quiet and wouldn’t be sending me a million emails a day directing me to their website.

Pizzagate = famous people involved in a child sex trafficking ring run from a pizza restaurant. Something to do with Hilary And/or Bill Clinton. Any celeb mentioning pizza is automatically involved.

While I can't believe this is true....
I still can't get my head around the REALLY unusual names they have used for the cabinets which are the same as the missing girls?

One is something like dupressi or similar...
Kayluh etc spellings unusual.

It is all.strange and doesn't seem to be any explanation for the matching names

And why Wayfair took the items down instead of correcting the price?

The names really aren’t that unusual. I bet if you researched it large numbers of girls would have those names. And if you think about all the girls who run away/are subject to custody dispute abduction/abscond from care/are late home or get lost or go to the park without permission and the worried parent calls the police, that’s a ton of girls who have had “missing child” reports. Statistically it’s likely that many of those girls will share names with one of the zillions of businesses that have jumped on the trend of giving their products female names. It’d be weird if there were no matching names!

Plus it’s clear confirmation bias. People see a match and think it must be suspicious, and overlook the hundred times where there is no match. One of the “missing girl” names that’s been given as proof something dodgy is going on was missing for only a short time before being found safe and sound, so she evidently wasn’t abducted or trafficked, yet the facts of her case have been twisted by conspiracy theories trying to support their agenda.

The most logical answer is that they took the items down because those items were drawing a firestorm of speculation and ignorant assumptions. If someone points out that you’re selling a dress/plant/chair named Jessica and OMG more than a thousand women named Jessica died last year this is obviously proof of an anti-Jessica murder plot then of course you’re going to remove it to try to deny those conspiracy theories oxygen. Plus it’s common for online stores to have a bug where out of stock items are listed as being super expensive so no one tries to buy them, so they’re probably out of stock to begin with.

But if you were sex trafficking children why would you use their actual names? Especially if its an unusual name. The parents are obviously going to google their childs name

Im not denying sex trafficking exists but I really dont think it would be so obvious or easy to buy. Thered have to he some sort of meeting before, to make sure you werent selling to the police or just an elderly couple who fancied some industrial units.

The cabinets are expensive but not that expensive. Surely a police department could just buy a cabinet and see what turns up?

@ComtesseDeSpair crying with laughter at the Billy comment!!

This is probably one of the weirdest threads I've ever seen here and I've been on Mumsnet for many years now!!

Billy hahahaha

And why Wayfair took the items down instead of correcting the price?

Simply because people would still be on them and now there would be an outcry that peados are getting a discount or smth.
Remember, this is driven by stupid. You can't reason with stupid.

Why do so many people believe any crap that comes their way on the Web?

Why do so many people believe any crap that comes their way on the Web?

But if you were sex trafficking children why would you use their actual names?Especially if its an unusual name. The parents are obviously going to google their childs name

Because even though they’re masterminding an international child-trafficking ring, Wayfair are not bright enough to use a less easily cracked code and couldn’t think of anything other than the child’s name.

Stoopid child traffickers! They’ve alerted the police to their peadophilic crime cartel. Silly ninnies. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Why do so many people believe any crap that comes their way on the Web?

More worryingly, these people are entitled to vote! 😫😫😫

Wayfair president of operations Bill Hutcherson with Ghislaine Maxwell

twitter.com/dividedwefall21/status/1281887295071756288

Most rich people have pic with her and/or other pervs...

On the missing children numbers a quick google finds this (2013 but still roughly current):
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States -- that's roughly 2,000 per day. Of those, there are 115 child "stranger abduction" cases each year, which means the child was taken by an unknown person.

[quote Namechange2020onceagain]Wayfair president of operations Bill Hutcherson with Ghislaine Maxwell

twitter.com/dividedwefall21/status/1281887295071756288[/quote]
Wtf??? 😮

Still doesn’t explain the Yandex search engine though does it? I mean that in its own is vile.

Shoe companies give shoes female and male names... this is all bullshit

I don't see how any of this works. If child traffickers listed children under their real names on a furniture website, then ...

well, records would show them only ever selling one of each cabinet, it going out of stock and then being replaced by a cabinet with a new name. So the changeovers in stock would be more rapid than H&M. You'd be able to see that if you tracked website changes.

How would buyers

Absolutely insane. I watched a programme about that Pizzagate thing and it was just awful. They nearly destroyed a man's business for shits and giggles.

I love a silly conspiracy theory, but some of them can cause real harm to the people involved.

I don't believe this one, mainly because, and this is a horrible thought but its a Hollywood fantasy that people are being sold for thousands of pounds. For traffickers life is much cheaper than that.

Maybe this all is just an elaborate trick to make peados spend all their money on overpriced furniture so they have no money left for other stuff.

How would buyers tell if they were ordering a human being or expensive furniture? If they'd been told about it? Wouldn't it be safer to sell that way than through the website?

What if the wrong person ordered, expecting furniture?