otteropp
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posted on September 1, 2007 07:45:00 PM new
I used to live in an Oil City and most of the Corporates had major offices there.
Shell Oil had a 'Shell Wives Club' for wives of employees.
I have three items with 'Shell Wives' inscibed on them and wanted to research.
I got into the Oil & Gas Collectibles and then into Shell Oil Category.
I put 'Wives' into the search and there were no listings but I was invited by Sponsored Links to contact some very questionable sites, including the words Lonely Wives and Sexy Wives.
I am no prude but I do object to this 'in my face' paid advertising. I could be under the age of 12 too ( I am not) and we wonder what is happening to our youth today!
I hope I did the tiny url ok
http://tinyurl.com/ytgdwj
Am I just over-reacting? Of course the answers on this may be split by gender!
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PIXIAMOM
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posted on September 1, 2007 09:51:55 PM new
I agree. Totally inappropriate for eBay. I would notify them to clean up their act.
http://tinyurl.com/ytgdwj
[ edited by PIXIAMOM on Sep 1, 2007 09:52 PM ]
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mingotree
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posted on September 1, 2007 10:24:09 PM new
Oh ya! Want to see "in your face" sleaze? Do a search for "catalog" sometime....the Abercrombie and Fitch and other sex books/"catalogs" are NOT what I want to see but ebay sees nothing wrong with them ... I asked that they be put in seperate categories but got a snotty Ebay "NO".
I see nothing wrong with nudity but it should be in the Adult category.
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otteropp
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posted on September 1, 2007 10:31:20 PM new
What I am objecting to is the fact that these so called 'Sponsored links" came up in a search that a young person could have done. Kids being what they are they could have clicked on one link about 'Real Nasty Sex'. Is there anyone who would like that to happen? I don't think so!
EBay supposedly has 'Community Values'...I don't think so either, it is just the almighty dollar but we knew that anyway.
I have sent everything to EBay and will take it further if I have to. I will follow up on what happens.
Pixiamom, thank you for fixing the tinyurl, what did I miss to make it clickable?
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niel35
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posted on September 1, 2007 11:45:26 PM new
before http - put (url) and then at the end after twj - put (/url) with no spaces
its almost 3AM and maybe pixia is sleeping.
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amber
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posted on September 2, 2007 03:37:14 AM new
otterop I agree 100%! Most of us are parents, or grandparent, even grandparents! I know that my kids have blocked bad sites from our grandchildren, they wouldn't expect they would need to block them from eBay. I have seen eBay's stand on a lot of items they won't allow listed, how come things like this are allowed? Yes right, the money porn brings in.
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aintrichyet
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posted on September 2, 2007 05:43:38 AM new
i followed the same search digging method that you describe you did, otteropp, and i see nothing at all of what you're saying.. inre 'sponsored links' etc.
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otteropp
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posted on September 2, 2007 08:19:35 AM new
Good Morning all,
neil...thank you for the explanation.
aintrichyet...as with any page of EBay things 'rotate' and this was probably one of many pages to show in the rotation.
When you click the link I gave it clearly gives the snapshot of what I saw.
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NEGLUS
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posted on September 2, 2007 08:56:20 AM new
In case you can't see it, here is what shows:
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
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zippy2dah
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posted on September 2, 2007 09:56:50 AM new
"Meet Sexy Local Housewives For Real Nasty Sex. Every Type and Fetish."
They won't let me list my vintage Sex to Sexty magazines unless I hide them in the MA category but they invite this?
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aintrichyet
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posted on September 2, 2007 10:40:45 AM new
okay, neglus; i see now...that's if you put 'wives club' in....... i had only put 'wives' (which is what otteropp said) when you type just 'wives', those sponsored ads don't show up.
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