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NSFW++: Amazon's “The Hobbit” (27k+ reviews) listing taken over male sex toy

by chrisacky on 9/7/21, 8:01 PM with 11 comments

  • by chrisacky on 9/7/21, 8:11 PM

    Please don't make this my most upvoted submission.

    I posted this entirely to shine a spotlight on the quality control systems which are in place which allows this abuse to occur in the first place.

    Honestly, if I had to guess how this occurred, I would suspect someone within Amazon with administrator rights merged an ASIN with another ASIN to create this page. Maybe someone with more understanding of the innards of AMZ can explain how this happens...

    To save people a click through to Reddit and through to Amz: https://imgur.com/a/FG3hZW0

  • by pupppet on 9/7/21, 9:35 PM

    Market is ripe for a filtered list of Amazon products as a service. Just show me the good stuff selected by real people.

  • by h2odragon on 9/7/21, 8:08 PM

    The book is much better, it never needs to be recharged