{"id":33171,"date":"2023-04-06T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=33171"},"modified":"2025-04-26T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:46:28","slug":"name-the-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=33171","title":{"rendered":"Scam O&#8217;Clock High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know I&#8217;ve gotten into wristwatches. I certainly blog about it enough. Well, our daughter Polly is into watches as well. Hers are more blingy than mine, and our tastes differ, but when I asked her what she wanted for her birthday and she showed me one for sale online, I ordered it for her. This watch: <a title=\"Screenshot 2023-04-06 at 8.26.18 AM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/52797481292\/in\/photolist-2orwTKA\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52797481292_85fc65231c_k.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2023-04-06 at 8.26.18 AM\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1003\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>I thought the price, nearly forty bucks, was coming it pretty high. Not to insult Polly, but hey, it&#8217;s a novelty watch, am I right? Anyway, I ordered one well in advance of her birthday. And of course her birthday came and went with no watch. We waited another couple of weeks, and then I sent an email to customer service. They actually responded, and that&#8217;s when I realized the online store we&#8217;d ordered from is Chinese.<\/p>\r\n<p>Before canceling the order and asking for a refund, I thought I&#8217;d check to see if we could get the watch from a US-based vendor. Why, yes:<\/p>\r\n<p><a title=\"Screenshot 2023-04-06 at 8.28.54 AM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/52798289739\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52798289739_b71acce955.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2023-04-06 at 8.28.54 AM\" width=\"500\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Notice the price difference?<\/p>\r\n<p>Remember during the early days of the Covid lockdown how QAnon idiots discovered some Wayfair furniture items listed at insanely high prices? Like wooden storage cabinets for $12,000? And they decided they&#8217;d discovered the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2020\/jul\/15\/how-wayfair-child-sex-trafficking-conspiracy-theor\/\">Democrat&#8217;s pedophile underground railroad for child sex slaves<\/a><\/strong>? After all, it stood to reason a $12,000 cabinet would contain a live child, fresh from Hillary&#8217;s pizza parlor sex dungeon, no? And wasn&#8217;t that proof, right there in plain sight, that Wayfair executives were snorting lines of\u00a0adrenochrome with George Soros and Tom Hanks? Bring on the Storm!<\/p>\r\n<p>Well, Wayfair actually was selling $12,000 storage cabinets, and I don&#8217;t think we ever got a good answer as to how such pricy items came to be listed on a discount furniture website. The linked article offers some mumbo-jumbo about pricing algorithms, but I&#8217;m not buying it. Wayfair was pulling a scam. If Polly&#8217;s watch is any indication, the scam is alive and well.<\/p>\r\n<p>Despite encouraging replies from customer service, my forty bucks continues its journey in cyberspace. I think we&#8217;re still in the window for canceling the charge with our credit card company, so no biggie. I asked Polly to pick another watch in the same price range ($40, not $3,600), this time from Amazon or better yet a brick &amp; mortar Target, and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re at.<\/p>\r\n<p>Who&#8217;d pay thousands for a forty-dollar watch, though? Maybe the U.S. Air Force \u2014 remember the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/air-force-was-paying-10k-for-airplane-toilet-seat-covers-through-2017\/kbPVYeFXu4I103pradVbqK\/\">$10,000 cargo plane toilet seats<\/a><\/strong>? I can&#8217;t figure out the scam, but there must be money in it or they wouldn&#8217;t be doing it.<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t figure out the scam, but there must be money in it or they wouldn&#8217;t be doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,415,6],"tags":[4237,3411,4236,4235],"class_list":["post-33171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-products","category-a-series-of-tubes","tag-expensiveseikocheapdick","tag-qanon-2","tag-scam-2","tag-wayfair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33171"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36263,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33171\/revisions\/36263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}