Posted on 07/11/2020 8:01:18 AM PDT by bitt
A conspiracy theory emerged Friday that the Wayfair online store was using the sale of storage cabinets as a cover for child trafficking — which the home decor company immediately denounced as false.
A post on the social media website Reddit noted the high cost of the furniture — along with the fact that each item was identified by a female name — as potential evidence of the purported scandal, Newsweek reported.
The prices for the cabinets — called Alyvia, Neriah, Samiyah and Yaritza — ranged from $12,699.99 to $14,499.99 each, according to a screenshot posted in the “r/conspiracy” subreddit.
“Is it possible Wayfair involved in Human trafficking with their WFX Utility collection? Or are these just extremely overpriced cabinets? (Note the names of the cabinets) this makes me sick to my stomach if it’s true :(,” user PrincessPeach1987 wrote Thursday.
The post quickly drew more than 700 comments from the subreddit’s 1.3 million members, including the assertion that “some of the names are missing children.”
“i cant access the cabinets anymore, but i remember a cabinet called Samiyah for like 12K, which is also a missing child from this month!” user coffeeismymuse added.
In a statement, Wayfair said, “There is, of course, no truth to these claims.”
“The products in question are industrial grade cabinets that are accurately priced,” the company said.
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This kind of stuff is just stupid.
How about @$#% happens. Wayfair gives almost all their stuff people names. Sylvette, Mullewa, Elliston, Laureen. Some of those are bound to matching actual people. Really if you were trafficking in kids the one thing you DEFINITELY DO NOT use is the actual name of the kid you’ve kidnapped. Really people, calm down and stop wanting to believe the stupidest things possible.
There are cabinets that are that much. I had a meeting with a family, that wanted to remodel their house. Their Kitchen was 3 years old - but they want a new kitchen with SubZero appliances. They want to add on 8000 square foot to the house. They want everything top end, including Marble floors.
I wouldn’t really think twice about a sub-Ikea garage cabinet having a model name that coincides with the very rare given name and/or surname of a missing child, and costing $10-15K. The explanation given, “pricing mistake, whatever,” suffices.
What gives me pause are 4, 5, 6 listings of that same cabinet, with that same picture, but each with a different rare given name and/or surname of a recently missing child, and all varying prices over 10K.
You’re not talking Powerball at that point, you’re talking about locating a pubble in this quadrant of the Milky Way.
Right. And according to all the polls Hillary Clinton is supposed to win the presidency in 2016. And don’t forget that brexit is going to lose by a landslide.
I don’t have twitter but thanks.
No I am not kidding I really wanted to know.
I see the allegations that they are recently missing kids names but I see no missing bulletin links or links to news stories so I wondered if that was just being said with no proof.
Jeffery Epstein may know the answer to that.
For that kind of money, one should probably expect the cabinet to come with a server, swtiches, and backup power supply.
Now, that was a good find.
Hi.
“The company confirmed to reporters and Poynter’s MediaWise that the rumors are not true.”
Interesting, because Politifact works out of the same bldg.
The Left wing Poynter Institute on 3rd St. S. in St. Pete.
The endowment is the only thing keeping the Tampa Bay Times afloat.
5.56mm
The point I am making is there is no way that Wayfair can inspect every one of the thousands of items in their catalog being offered to assure it is legitimately what is being offered for that price. They can only stand behind it when the customer complains they did not get what they ordered from the vendor.
It is possible that Wayfair is complicit in the scheme, but it is also possible they are not. Or, it’s entirely possible that there is no there, there, and these cabinets are just exactly as described at these prices for some inexplicable reason due to specific purpose built needs.
Yep but then there are the pillows. Pillows might be already extracted. Cabinets live delivery. The missing kids names on the pillows and cabinets are beyond weird.
I'm not posting the links here, because some of them go to a Russian search engine that has links to child images.
I wonder why the mainstream media is going so bonkers over a silly conspiracy theory?
As always, Swordy, your input is appreciated.
God bless you.
Perspective is what we are both looking at.
We take what “the medium” gives us and decide for ourselves the depth and breadth of what is there.
We think for ourselves.
Is Wayfair knowledgeable of any schemes that may prove true?
All is second and third hand speculation but, at some point, it approaches “mathematical impossibility”.
Each of us knows where that point is.
We either take it or leave it.
The twitter thread by Tommy G has the information about Wayfair throughout. The part that was eye-popping for me was staged stuff on the one pricey bookshelf...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1281773672836083717 2min vid
A cool tool to use is http://fotoforensics.com/ to look at stuff that is ‘shopped into photos.
that is a cool tool! Thanks!
Wayfair is a marketing organization for other vendors. Wayfair does not warehouse everything they sell. For example, we purchased some furniture from Wayfair when we first moved to Utah last September. Two pieces were shipped from a third-party vendor in South Carolina, and a third from a dealer in California.
Correct. Often times 3rd party sellers on Amazon/Wayfair/eBay don’t even hold inventory themselves. They get a hold of a database of thousands of items, jack up the prices and list them for sale on eBay, Amazon, Wayfair, etc. Then they try to buy the item when they sell it. A LOT of people do this and due to the thousands of items involved it can be messy. It’s a very common internet hustle. There is nothing unusual here except for the $10k pillows and that is almost certainly a database programming error.
So, what your saying is, it is possible people are communicating through Wayfair to traffic children under the guise of buying and selling overpriced crap?
Because they don’t warehouse it, they just bring buyer and sellers together.
Well, that seems plausible in an evil world.
And if there are any citizen journalists that can tie traffickers in any way to Wayfair,like the Epstein’s or the Maxwell’s or the Clinton’s (who Trump even joked about taking a village or two in Haiti- you know smuggling, trafficking kids joke- funny right?)
Then we can discount the conspiracy as just overpriced crap or database programming errors.
But even Trump accused Hillary of trafficking. Is that a conspiracy?
Or just a bad joke?
We know sex slave and child trafficking is real. We know they are starting to get punished and rolled up on under the Trump admin.
And it seems maybe some traffickers might get creative.
Use the internet to their advantage,because it seems although the media isnt reporting it, dents are being made and tunnels, doors and ports are being closed to human trafficking.
Maybe just a hi tech slave market under the guise of really overpriced cabinets and pillows..
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