Thread by @saintsoap

I should be sleeping but I'm going to try to answer some questions about this #Wayfair conspiracy and weirdly high-priced items
1. Why does WF have storage cabinets for $9k?
A. Items on WF are sold by merchants who can add items to their catalogue and price them however. (1/?)

Wayfair has little if anything to do with this, they just host listings on their website.
2. So why are those sellers selling them for that much?
A. When an item in a seller's catalogue sells its last piece and goes out of stock they can either a: delete the listing until...(2/?)

The item comes back in stock and repost it, b: leave the item as is displaying an "out of stock" message, or c: leave the listing up and set the price to a super high amount that nobody would ever purchase it for until they it in stock again and bring the price down (3/?)

3. "Why do sellers do that?"
A. Not a wholesale seller so I don't know for SURE but on sites like #Wayfair, Overstock etc there are benefits merchants get for having shops in a certain a standing and those conditions might include having items in stock more often than not (4/?)

@computamusic
explains this concept better in these replies here

https://twitter.com/computamusic/status/1281456604781608960

It's really just a way to game the system these marketplace websites operate by and keep your seller account in good standing easily.

4. Well, why do items have human names? (5/?)

A. I've noticed wholesale sellers are from usually based in foreign countries and they often give names to items that seem really random to US shoppers. My theory is that bc products are usually bought wholesale and not made...(6/?)

by the sellers themselves they assign them random names so they can be searched then list them. And bc there are so many names in the world a seller will never run out of titles to give your products. You see this on Amazon a lot, random items like shoes, bags, jewelry... (7/?)

furniture, decor accents etc have human names bc it's just easier to come up with them.

5. So why are the items on these links all disappearing now they we're talking about this?
A. This "theory" is trending everywhere and sellers by now have been alerted to the fact...(8/?)

that they're at the center of a whirlwind conspiracy about #Wayfair supposedly shipping trafficked kids around the country. WF themselves have probably contacted them and told them to take the listings down. It's pretty much all sellers can do until WF puts out a statement

5. What about that results that come up on Yandex when you search item names/numbers?
A. Yandex is a Russian search engine site that moderates and indexes items very differently. Basically there is no moderation on it so you see results from websites google would never show you.

The results are pictures of children bc of the "src" in the item names. Searching anything on Yandex with "src" pulls results from a Russian image hosting website with a long history of hosting inappropriate and predatory images of children. Nothing to do with #Wayfair

5. So what was that Wayfair walkout about?

A. It was organized by WF employees in 2019 when it came out that they had a contract with ICE to supply their detention camps with furniture. Obviously that's foul and it didn't sit right with a lot of their workers so they...

organized the massive walkout protest to show Wayfair very clearly that they didn't approve of this business relationship. If I remember correctly, after the backlash from their employees and the general public, #Wayfair cancelled the contract.

thecut.com/2019/06/what-h…

6. What about all the children that ICE has said they've "lost track of"? (9/?)

That is real. It was reported by the US federal government several times in 2019 that after arresting immigrant parents and placing their children in sponsor homes (an adoption of sorts which...

is itself fucked up and arguably a form a trafficking) they lost track of them. Both times this was reported, about 1500 children who had been placed in the homes of sponsors that they no longer had tabs on.

So they tried to make follow up calls to check on kids after placement and couldn't make contact with the sponsors. 1500 kids who were basically given to people willy nilly. Who knows what qualifications these people even had to be housing children. apnews.com/aad956b7281f40…

Who knows where those kids are now and why their sponsor "families" won't respond to calls from the gov. about the welfare of these children. Deeply terrifying but besides #Wayfair 's complicity in agreeing to furnish the camps, they don't really have anything to do with this.

Another explanation for the human names of the #Wayfair products. Not the most well versed in this but its somewhat similar to how amazon shops use bots to list items w/ every variation of a phrase, ei. shirts that say "keep calm and _ on" using every verb in the dictionary.

I know lmao, I don't fully get it but the process of naming these items is mostly automated. There's no real rhyme or reason to it besides trying to make titles unique/random enough not to be linked, to prevent comp. shopping the same items on diff sites

https://twitter.com/calcheese/status/1281611671342067712

Yes, a coincidence. People think otherwise bc a lot of the names seem unique in the US but many of those names are from languages other than english and they're more common in other countries where the national language isn't english. This also ties (1/2)

https://twitter.com/AmyAsalmon40/status/1281648831881510912

into my theory that the naming of these products is mostly automated by independent sellers (using bots) on websites like Wayfair, Overstock, etc. and that it may use a tool that trawls websites/databases on the internet to pull random names from and apply to their products (2/2)