Abaddon, since AFAIK you're are the only one here with real world experience...
I doubt that. In any event, knowing what I know, real pedo networks do not operate how you think they do. I have spent a long time writing crypto routines for multiple legimate purposes.Inevitably, this exposes one to some of the darker sides of the web. I have also been involved in researching and exposing RCC bastards that abuse children. So I do have more than a passing familiarity with the matter.
Is it even plausible they would operate how Wayfair has been accused of operating.? Even if Wayfair were unwittingly being used as a platform?
Given the wild Wayfair claims, no, not even remotely possible. Why would Wayfair allow anonymous internet freaks to set their pricing? Why would they not notice that the value of their inventory had increased by a factor of 10,000? A hacker? Who magically hacked only the website? And Wayfair managed not to notice? Not a chance. These systems are all integrated.
If you had not heard, night lights and throw pillows, and other items, were selling for about 20K.
Yup. Know what that means? It means they stock goods that range from the budget category to the insanely expensive expensive category. Colour me bored by such a mundane thing. My hex-wife had a thing about really expensive bathroom fittings. She spent obscene money on the most wildly expensive bathroom fittings. I have a different view. Given what a small proportion of your life that is spent in your bathroom, and the activities that occur there such as ablutions and evacuations (ahem), I personally see no particular reason to go beyond strict utilitarianism and the cheapest solution of sufficient quality. Go too cheap and you end up with something that fails in a week.
So what? I have bought and continue to buy all manner of tools, equipment, software, whatever. I could buy cheap versions, or I could buy really, really expensive versions and the gulf between the two is a huge amount of money.
So, I have a simple rule of thumb. Do I expect this item to last me a lifetime? Then spend the big bucks. Do I expect this item will get toasted really fast? Go cheap as possible, one is expecting it to be toast in short order.
But to nail this nonsense for once an for all, suppose you are in the market to purchase a new car. Would you consider a Buggati Veyron. A Lexus G400h? A Ferrari?
I confess that I have in the past owned performance cars. And I enjoyed them very much. I don't now. It is a money pit. For no real result. Sure you have a huge powerful car and I did that for a while myself. And then I thought, "Why the hell am I wasting this much money on a hunk of metal that causes me to hemorrhage money?".
But people do that for all sort of motivations. For me, at the time, I enjoyed the raw power. Much the same way that my hex-wife enjoyed the luxury of a marble bathroom. Horses for courses. Everyone's taste simply cannot be the same.
So, I copped on to that nonsense success of marketing. These days, I drive a diesel work horse that will give me at least another ten years of solid reliable service. Works for me, since I am out on the road a lot and it matters not how many horses under the hood when one is sitting in traffic, right?
Searched: "Wayfair has been accused"
Of stocking a range that goes from the ridiculously cheap to the decadently expensive.
Are you somehow unaware how this kettle of crazy started? It started on Reddit (where else). Some tinfoiler could not figure out why Wayfair could sell items ranging from $99 to $10,000, therefore pedophiles, yessir.
Well no. That is called supplying a wide range of product because people's range of tastes is frankly bizarre. I should know because I had to pony up for some of those. Just to keep the hex-wife happy.
I still recall a mad conversation between her an a salesman. He was trying to explain to her that marble is a natural stone and it is simply not possible to order a particular pattern unless one was prepared to pay for the marble you rejected.
At that point, I simply walked away. I wasn't paying for that ****. Nor getting involved in that argument with the sales drone.
Some people are willing to pay stupid money for trivial things. Why do you think Rolex exists?
This item was seen scribbled on the wall of a scary tinfoil whackjob hideout cave, down by the river.
https://postimg.cc/sBXwB2Rd
Tell me why I should care about a "whackjob hideout cave"? By definition everything in it is the work of a whackjob. And as we know, those are not in short supply. Jones (either), Applewhite, Koresh, the entire JW, and so on. Wingnuts are not exactly remarkable, are they?
