Sears Marketplace, selling items plastered with King Dedede porn...

[Eaglebird]

I have neglected to investigate anything lulz.net has on this topic, because frankly, who gives a shit?


To start off, here's the item of interest:
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/search_10153_12605?keyword=King+Dedede+Drooling+While+Eating&i_cntr=1316986786557


Sears seemingly provides an online storefront for some business, such as http://www.sears.com/shc/s/search_10153_12605?keyword=&sellerId=3497&mktPlaceInd=FBM "Carson's Collectibles". It seems that this wonderful business provides "collectibles" featuring King Dedede masturbating himself with a Waddledee. Even more interesting, looking at the detail of these items, the date they were added on is "April 27th, 2010", which would suggest these items have been publicly visible for over a year, which as of today, is about 516 days.


If it's been around this long, has it just gone undetected or is Sears really allowing this stuff?


Speaking of, if it is all removed, screencaps, neither of which are safe for work:
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/58/dededeh.png
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/4718/dedededetail.png

[Pi]

Supposedly this image originated on FA.

screencap of the original artist's journal discussing this. The conversation isn't particularly salient. Here's the live link too.

[Jim Demintia]

This is what happens when fuddy-duddy old line blue-chips, full of executives who don't even know how to use computers, suddenly decide that they have to take on the hot new shit (in this case, it'd be Amazon and eBay) and don't really understand anything about what they're doing. It probably never occurred to anyone that this would happen, much less that in the absence of any moderation it was certain to happen. Blah blah user generated content, and the shareholders' meeting is taken care of.

All that said the length of time it was up is pretty horrifying. On the other hand it tells you how many people are aware of Sears Marketplace.

(what's really horrifying is that the company who was THE retailer to early-to-mid-20th century rural America is so irrelevant that some shmuck sold T-shirt porn under their online banner for almost two fucking years and no one noticed.)

[Pi]

All that said the length of time it was up is pretty horrifyinghilarious.

ftfy

[Jim Demintia]

I'll admit I didn't bother to turn cookies on so I could see the page until just now, but when I did I see that in fact there aren't any T-Shirts in the collection of 126 (!) items...however, the selection they do have is pretty fantastic. I think I'll get my netbook out of that bottom drawer it's in just so I can have a cartoon pornography case for it.

[rodox_video]

(what's really horrifying is that the company who was THE retailer to early-to-mid-20th century rural America is so irrelevant that some shmuck sold T-shirt porn under their online banner for almost two fucking years and no one noticed.)

Not only irrelevant, but rapidly circling the drain.

[Jim Demintia]

You know, the larger business press or some blogs (particularly Gawker Media blogs and their knock offs) might pick up on this. It certainly is one of those stories that fit into some pet narratives that bloggers tend to have.

[Freehaven]

Sears finally removed it. I'm still amazed that it took this long, but given how bad the company's doing, I'm not fully surprised.

[ISleepNow]

(what's really horrifying is that the company who was THE retailer to early-to-mid-20th century rural America is so irrelevant that some shmuck sold T-shirt porn under their online banner for almost two fucking years and no one noticed.)

Not only irrelevant, but rapidly circling the drain.

I didn't know Sears was just an unmanaged web storefront these days.  I thought they went under years ago

[Jim Demintia]

So this is still going on