Wayfair denies child trafficking conspiracies after claims came from overpriced products with girl names

This is all started on social media after users thought it was odd that their cabinets had ridiculous prices and girl names. Many of them "apparently" match up with missing girls, even those with more "unique" names. Some Reddit user claims that searching up the product names in some Russian based website called "Yandex" show images of little children.

This is one of their official statements, I have also read a Tweet that claimed Wayfair has also said that the overpriced products were from a website "glitch":
Wayfair told Heavy in an emailed statement: “There is, of course, no truth to these claims. The products in question are industrial grade cabinets that are accurately priced.” The company explained why the items in question had been removed from the site:
Recognizing that the photos and descriptions provided by the supplier did not adequately explain the high price point, we have temporarily removed the products from site to rename them and to provide a more in-depth description and photos that accurately depict the product to clarify the price point.
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Here's some of the "alleged" proof:
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Here's a thread on all the alleged missing people who have the same names as Wayfair products.
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r/conspiracy - People have discovered a highly possible human trafficking hub operating through Wayfair. $40 rugs, shower curtains, being sold for upwards of 10k a piece & include names of missing children in the tagline. Heres a good tweet with some matching missing person articles:

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Early on July 10, a new conspiracy theory began trending on social media concerning American furniture retailer Wayfair. The conspiracy theory states that some of the cabinets on Wayfair’s website were being used for human trafficking because they were listed at high prices and many had strange names. To be clear, there is no evidence to support the conspiracy theory and Wayfair has firmly rejected the claims.
The Conspiracy Theory Originated on a Reddit Conspiracy Thread & Others Shared the Theory on Twitter
The conspiracy theory seems to have originated on the /r/conspiracy subreddit when a user named PrincessPeach1987 said that cabinets listed on Wayfair by vendor WFX Utility were priced over $10,000 and had distinctive names like “Yaritza” or “Samiyah.” The user suggested that these names could be placeholders for humans and human trafficking.

A Twitter user with the handle @edmmariluna posted about the conspiracy on Twitter and her post has since received over 215,000 likes and 87,000 retweets. Another user posted a series of photos on Twitter of the cabinets side-by-side with news articles about missing children with the same names as the cabinets.

One person said, “Hi. Just a friendly reminder that #Wayfair isn’t trending because the belief is that exploited children are being shipped in cabinets. It’s trending because the cabinets (among other products, such as shower curtains and blankets) may be a front. Have a nice day.”

One user replied to the original Reddit post and said they had contacted the human trafficking hotline and a case was being opened. Heavy contacted Polaris, the organization responsible for the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which said that due to confidentiality reasons, they could not provide more information or confirm whether they had received tips about the conspiracy.

The Reddit user who first posted about the conspiracy spoke anonymously with Newsweek and said they are “involved in a local organization that helps victims of human trafficking” which means they are “suspicious most of the time now.” However, they said they weren’t directly accusing the brand but just wanted to raise their concerns.

Many People Took to Social Media to Slam the Conspiracy Theory
Many people took to Twitter to share their disbelief at the conspiracy. Reporter Ben Collins wrote:
Pizzagate/QAnon people have Wayfair trending today. They falsely claim price glitches on storage boxes prove that the company is trafficking children. This took off because of a post on Reddit’s r/conspiracy subreddit yesterday, which is a clearinghouse for anonymous paranoia. We’re living in a second, more profound and politically important Satanic Panic. This time, everyone’s in on it. People will look for coincidences as narrow and stupid as pricing glitches on furniture sites as ‘proof’ a global cabal is eating children and controlling the world.
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Journalist Aaron Gouveia wrote: “The QAnon and Pizzagate morons are working overtime today claiming Wayfair is trafficking children based on high prices on oversized cabinets online. I shit you not. There are people who actually believe this. Ignorance is the far more worrisome disease.” Another person posted:
This is just implacably ridiculous. No one is delivering huge boxes of live children to you from China. (97% of #Wayfair products come from China.) Find better hobbies, folks. If you are worried about child trafficking, the Trump admin has been doing it at the border since 2017.
— Victoria Brownworth #MasksSaveLives (@VABVOX) July 10, 2020
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The post reads:
So the latest conspiracy is that #Wayfair is selling trafficked children in armoires off its website. You all never bought anything from Wayfair, did you? Everything arrives in 500 pieces with directions in Chinese to build it yourself. You’d have to build the kid, too. This is just implacably ridiculous. No one is delivering huge boxes of live children to you from China. (97% of #Wayfair products come from China.) Find better hobbies, folks. If you are worried about child trafficking, the Trump admin has been doing it at the border since 2017.
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If I was running a human smuggling ring, international furniture shipping is a pretty good front, just saying.

Only thing i know about wayfair is the chair I got from them is pretty alright, they never stop spamming you with ads and it's run my Muslims ( family friend refuses to shop with them because of that)
 
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There's a high-price Canadian grocer that starts with a Z that occasionally has hard to find items on their 'order online' website that are up for about a week then vanish. I remember seeing 'spring Greek chicken (limited to one)' going for 12,000CAD once. I don't have screencaps, sorry. This just reminded me of that.
 
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Just Here for A and H said:
There's a high-price Canadian grocer that starts with a Z that occasionally has hard to find items on their 'order online' website that are up for about a week then vanish. I remember seeing 'spring Greek chicken (limited to one)' going for 12,000CAD once. I don't have screencaps, sorry. This just reminded me of that.
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It's such an interesting rabbit hole but I don't know if I will jump down it yet. I've been seeing Walmart's website take cues from Wish with their ads, at least ones I get. Online advertising is just weird.

Noideawhattopick said:
Just imagine...

"Can I get a refund on this cabinet."
You certainly can sir so long as it meets our criteria for a refund. Was the cabinet broken on arrival or was the cabinet not as advertised.
"The cabinet was falsely advertised, there should have been a 9 year old sex slave inside but it was completely empty."
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From what the article said, I highly doubt that if this is real, they're actually shipping people in cabinets. Supposed listings included all kinds of mundane objects like pillows and curtains. It's likely just an interesting coincidence that cabinets were also included, and are generally big enough for people to fit in.
 
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Coffee Druid said:
From what the article said, I highly doubt that if this is real, they're actually shipping people in cabinets. Supposed listings included all kinds of mundane objects like pillows and curtains. It's likely just an interesting coincidence that cabinets were also included, and are generally big enough for people to fit in.
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For third-party vendors, it's an intermediary site and virtual catalog for the vendors to post listings and products are shipped direct from vendor to buyer. It's a pretty run of the mill e-commerce model since eBay and Amazon popularized it, and most sites have options for third-party sales. Case in point, Amazon's problem with third-party listings being fronts for illicit and counterfeit drug, paraphernalia, and chemical precursor purchases.

The way this works, is third-party sellers list their inventory on the site. When an item is purchased, if it's a merchant-fulfilled unit the vendor receives the transaction funds, shipping credit (in some cases), contact information for the buyer, and the shipping address. The merchant ships the unit direct to the buyer and sends the tracking code to the site for tracking purposes, and feedback is usually performed with the site as intermediary, done.

I'm gonna take a guess about how this would work, assuming these items and vendors are fronts for CST. There'd be a package shipped and all to make it look legit, but off-site and through secure channels the trafficker and buyer are in contact to arrange the "meeting".
 
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>some russian based website called "yandex"
yandex is Russia's version of google, searching girls names in yandex will give you pictures of girls, the same way that searching for girls names on google will give you pictures of girls
Its reverse image search is actually on par, and sometimes better than googles

neverendingmidi said:
This reminds me of when I saw this:
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On Amazon. I just figured it was either a glitch, or out of stock and somehow defaulted to a high number.
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*sweating intensifies*
 
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I actually think it’s more likely to be some sort of weird SEO attempt.

The furniture changing prices, the storefront, the inability to fulfill and especially the fact it’s all being removed by Wayfair, it seems like drop-shipping scam trademarks. What better way to stand out than to use a term people will likely be searching, but is unique enough to not have a lot of results?

Still gross, but I think it’s more likely than being child traficking code.
 
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Lucille Bluth said:
I saw a now removed thread on Reddit of someone claiming they entered the SKU numbers of Wayfair products on some website and seeing images of girls in bikinis and whatnot. The supposed screenshot was disturbing, if all of this is true.
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It is not hard to come up with bikini pics on the Internet no matter what your search term is.
 
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Could just be a glitch in the pricing algorithm. Could be a money laundering operation.

Here's some decorative cactus with "distressed" features sold by a third party on Wayfair for just $99,999


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The seller, Bungalow Rose, has removed the listing. I grabbed this archive within the last 24 hours. Also scrubbed by the same seller in that time frame are like 12 different listings of astrology throw pillows, each costing $9,999.


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The human trafficking piece seems schizo to me but then again pedos do like to do their shit in the open.
 
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