Buxom buttocks bolster Beemer bonnet Let's face it, carbon fibre car bonnets aren't the most visually stimulating items, so if you're attempting to punt one down at the world's fave tat bazaar, why not give your auction a bit of added va-va-voom? eBay auction for carbon fibre bonnet, complete with semi-naked woman Since we have no doubt whatsoever that this …
Ebay are missing a trick here. If they required all their auctions to feature at least one shot of a buxom beauty holding the item being sold they could do several things:
* Eliminate "image is representative only" pictures that look nothing like the product being sold
* Increase traffic
* Increase sales
* Piss off just about everyone in the "moral majority" (both left and right)
* ???
* profit!
> * Eliminate "image is representative only" pictures that look nothing like the product being sold
Not necessarily. It might create a new market, though, for 'representative' photos that include a buxom beauty. However...
> * Piss off just about everyone in the "moral majority" (both left and right)
That's reason enough for your idea to get the thumbs up from me.
It is time to retire the whole concept of "NSFW" tags. It was originally adopted because people often had internet access while in their employer's offices but not at home. The situation has now reversed, with more people likely to have routine and customary internet access at home than at their place of work. We're now in a circumstance where the rules can be much simpler: if the site you're visiting is related to doing your work, there should be no one that can legitimately criticize the content. If the site is NOT related to doing your work, then visit it FROM HOME, and you deserve whatever you see. There is no such thing as "job-related but inappropriate" content that needs must be hidden from coworkers.
Agreed- some HR droids have absolutely zero sense of humor, and will cheerfully accept resignations of people they catch with even moderate amounts of flesh tones emanating from their monitors.
I get away with it because I'm the nanny filter admin and I can pull the "I'm performing an investigation" card. :D
The images aren't indecent, and a lot of other advertising involves pretty girls, often half-naked. So eBay has no reason to act, unlike in the case of flashers. Unless, of course, including extraneous promotional content in images is only permitted for paying advertisers.
I did a short gig at an engineering (wireless) company recently, and took over the desk of an early-20s female who'd just moved on. There were, I think, only 4 or 5 women (out of ~100) in this company, and all the rest were secretaries and HR. It soon turned out that one of her hobbies had been YouPorn, in an open-plan office, on her company computer. Everyone in my group knew about it; even IT knew about it. Nobody cared, but none of the guys would have done it themselves. She was, needless to say, very popular.
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