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Yeah, I wanted to get an RFID-blocking passport wallet and I searched on Amazon, only to find thousands of options (the vast majority of which I assume have nev
by schoen 9y ago
Yeah, I wanted to get an RFID-blocking passport wallet and I searched on Amazon, only to find thousands of options (the vast majority of which I assume have never been physically produced) with different slogans in different languages, which looked to be the output of a script that plugged in things into a template.
You can see for yourself:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_sa_fashion?url=search-alias%3Dfashion&field-keywords=neonblond+rfid+passport https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_sa_fashion?url=searc...
Many of them look quite plausible but if you keep looking you come across bad transliterations from other languages, extremely specific "I [Place|Activity|Relative|Pet]", "World's Hottest [Profession]", and lots more.
The most implausible to me is that they have "I love you" in foreign languages but not always using the foreign languages' actual writing system, sometimes using unofficial transliterations. (Although apparently people are willing to get tattoos of this kind of thing, so maybe they're also willing to buy passport holders with it...)
I bet this company is still small potatoes compared to the overall scale that the script-assisted product listing game can reach on Amazon.
Another thing was a company that produced custom e-books of Wikipedia articles about different Amazon search terms, so if you searched for "hypochondria" or something, they would be selling an e-book about hypochondria, consisting of a print-out of the Wikipedia page about it.