So on its website Amazon maintains a list of items that cannot be
purchased/sold on its website, either directly by Amazon itself or
through one of it's sellers, broken down into specifics for several
broad categories.
That's in and off itself is not that weird. And 99% of the prohibited
items make perfect sense; weapons, illegal items, items dangerous to
ship or store, and so forth.
But 3 items jumped out at me, mainly in how overly specific they were
when the bulk of the restricted items list is broad categories or
defining characteristics.
- Media featuring Traci Lords created prior to May 7, 1986. Okay
so I know the story here, Traci Lords lied about her age and appeared in
several pornographic magazines and films that later had to be recalled
to due to child pornography laws. What is weird is that Amazon already
has a blanket ban on pornography period and anything Traci Lords did as
a minor would be both illegal and covered by Amazon "no illegal items"
clause. It's not weird that these items are banned in the least, just
weird that they are specifically banned.
- Your Baby Can Read products. Near as I can tell this is some
sort of range of Baby Einstein style products that got caught up in a
class action suit few years back for unsubstantiated claims. Odd that
his one product would be singled out when plenty of similar bunk baby
intelligence training videos/products are still available.
- The Magic Wine Decanter. What looks to be a weirdly shaped
wine bottle that is supposed to make wine taste better. Probably a
useless product, but again just odd that this one thing would be singled
out by name so specifically on a website where you can buy 2,100 dollar
HDMI cables and all other manner of useless but not illegal or wise
worthy of restriction products.
Any ideas?
purchased/sold on its website, either directly by Amazon itself or
through one of it's sellers, broken down into specifics for several
broad categories.
That's in and off itself is not that weird. And 99% of the prohibited
items make perfect sense; weapons, illegal items, items dangerous to
ship or store, and so forth.
But 3 items jumped out at me, mainly in how overly specific they were
when the bulk of the restricted items list is broad categories or
defining characteristics.
- Media featuring Traci Lords created prior to May 7, 1986. Okay
so I know the story here, Traci Lords lied about her age and appeared in
several pornographic magazines and films that later had to be recalled
to due to child pornography laws. What is weird is that Amazon already
has a blanket ban on pornography period and anything Traci Lords did as
a minor would be both illegal and covered by Amazon "no illegal items"
clause. It's not weird that these items are banned in the least, just
weird that they are specifically banned.
- Your Baby Can Read products. Near as I can tell this is some
sort of range of Baby Einstein style products that got caught up in a
class action suit few years back for unsubstantiated claims. Odd that
his one product would be singled out when plenty of similar bunk baby
intelligence training videos/products are still available.
- The Magic Wine Decanter. What looks to be a weirdly shaped
wine bottle that is supposed to make wine taste better. Probably a
useless product, but again just odd that this one thing would be singled
out by name so specifically on a website where you can buy 2,100 dollar
HDMI cables and all other manner of useless but not illegal or wise
worthy of restriction products.
Any ideas?
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