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WiseDonkey 5 points ago +5 / -0

Maybe advertisements are being directed to you based on your browsing history. If you've been looking at tweets about Wayfair and maybe even going to the Wayfair website to confirm what has been reported, the ad people now think you will respond to Wayfair ads.

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DarkMemeDuck 3 points ago +3 / -0

Where's the tin foil hat fun in that?

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NormaJeanRocks 1 point ago +1 / -0

lol

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TrumpsGlassOfWater 4 points ago +4 / -0

Got a good link to what Wayfair is/what this is about?

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TrumpsGlassOfWater 2 points ago +2 / -0

cool thanks pede

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DarkMemeDuck 2 points ago +2 / -0

The theory goes that Wayfair has items named after missing kids that are ungodly expensive, and are really just black market fronts designed to traffick in people.

Personally, I don't think it holds much water, because most of the evidence is loaded with confirmation bias.

There's valid reasons for normal items to be super expensive on websites like this. It happens all the time. Several pedes from here have even acknowledged that they do sales through sites like Wayfair and they will often overprice items they don't want to sell for one reason or another, but they also don't want to mark their item as "out of stock" due to various search engine optimization reasons.

Another large piece of evidence they use is if you plug the UPC code of a Wayfair item into Russian search engine Yandex prepended with the letters SRC, it pulls up all kinds of creepy pics of kids. The problem with this evidence is that you can put literally anything into a Yandex search engine with SRC in front of it and get the same creepy pictures.

The one weird piece of evidence I haven't seen a good counter for is the fact some of these items share names with missing children. I've heard sometimes they use AI to name these things, and perhaps it's scrubbing name lists to get those names. But the names are usually pretty strange to begin with, so it seems like it's not just a coincidence.

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BeauBidenBrainTumor 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm no conspiracy buff, but after browsing some of what's out there on this, I do think this is worthy of an FBI investigation at minimum. Man, this one stinks like hell.

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19American62Woman 2 points ago +3 / -1

Tables are turned, they can’t say conspiracy, they can’t say prove it. No f*ckers, you prove us wrong. But they can’t

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DarkMemeDuck 1 point ago +1 / -0

Except it's nearly impossible to prove one's innocence, which is why the justice system is built on innocent until proven guilty.

I'm not saying the trafficking isn't happening (even though I'm VERY skeptical it is), but the burden of proof should never be on the accused. It always must be on the accuser.

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19American62Woman 1 point ago +1 / -0

You mean like it was for our President during the peach mint fiasco

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DarkMemeDuck 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, what they did was wrong, and we all saw it and called it out then.

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DarkMemeDuck 2 points ago +2 / -0

Except that isn't the only other explanation. The much more realistic explanation for overpriced items is that a 3rd party doesn't want to sell a particular item (maybe because it is sold out, or because they won't be able to get to creating the custom aspect of an item such as a monogrammed pillow), but they also don't want to lose their listing off the site.

High priced items isn't unusual on sites that sell 3rd party items.

Items named after missing children... that's far more weird.