With Amazon, who the hell needs WalMart?

Weren't people bitching about this exact same thing like six months ago? And it was the same thing, and then it turns out it's just Walmart letting 3rd party sellers use their website as a marketplace. Again.

I swear, the same thing, every couple months ever since the election.

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
With Amazon, who the hell needs WalMart?

Walmart is going after Amazon.

I’m just astounded at the responses.

Walmart has 3rd party sellers selling pro-Trump clothing...

And they also have 3rd party sellers selling anti-Trump clothing.

Oh, so does Amazon.

What would you like them to do? Not allow either to be sold? That is a very bad road to be on, censorship is never a good thing...

EDIT: Walmart has removed ALL 3rd party sellers of "Impeach 45" and "Impeach Trump" merchandise.


However, MAGA gear is still being sold. That is wrong in my book, and I voted for Trump.

Hell, if I had a t-shirt printing business where I could print a shirt for $3 saying whatever stupid thing people would buy and sell it for $20, I'm doing it. The shirt could have dicks and swastikas for all I care. I'm making money.

Actually, I used to do exactly that. I used to own a t-shirt/embroidery business. Some of my biggest money makers were the shirts that I'd sell at college events.

My stupidest money maker was the "Free Tibet" shirts that I used to sell for $20 each. These dumbasses couldn't get enough of these goofy shirts and felt like they were doing something by purchasing it.

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Originally posted by kz1000:
Who cares? Don't like it, don't buy it.

Exactly. Jesus, I couldn't care less.

Congratulations, folks.

Now they removed these as well:



Tell me, what other areas of free speech should we shut down today out of stupidity?

Did they remove the Lebellum collection too? Some good stuff in that Lebellum collection.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Weren't people bitching about this exact same thing like six months ago? And it was the same thing, and then it turns out it's just Walmart letting 3rd party sellers use their website as a marketplace. Again.

I swear, the same thing, every couple months ever since the election.

Did you hear?

(A third party seller on) Wal-Mart.com is now selling pitchforks and torches!

*rabble rabble rabble rabble*

This is still available, I'm sure it will be taken down soon....

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ele...lt-T-Shirt/156517730


Translation for olds: "I don't know, not Hillary though..."

I saw a Dallas Cowboys shirt on there too...maybe I should report it because it offends me.

Just don't fuck with my wolves howling at the moon t-shirt.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I saw a Dallas Cowboys shirt on there too...maybe I should report it because it offends me.

That would be illogical. Just boycott the internet.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Hell, if I had a t-shirt printing business where I could print a shirt for $3 saying whatever stupid thing people would buy and sell it for $20, I'm doing it. The shirt could have dicks and swastikas for all I care. I'm making money.

Actually, I used to do exactly that. I used to own a t-shirt/embroidery business. Some of my biggest money makers were the shirts that I'd sell at college events.

My stupidest money maker was the "Free Tibet" shirts that I used to sell for $20 each. These dumbasses couldn't get enough of these goofy shirts and felt like they were doing something by purchasing it.

Exactly this. These third-party sellers, and the guy at your local flea market, aren't agents of the DNC. Just like the guys selling Trump bobbleheads on Facebook don't care who Kennedy's replacement is. They're as likely to be an independent as the opposite. Even more likely, they're running a Chinese drop shipping house, and they DGAF what they sell as long as someone is buying it. Anyone who is pissed off about this, go get yourself a Cafe Press account and start selling shirts with Trump in prison stripes. You can laugh all the way to the bank.

Do I have this correct - Walmart has now removed the Impeach 45 clothing but Amazon has lots of offering?

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Originally posted by SR:
Do I have this correct - Walmart has now removed the Impeach 45 clothing but Amazon has lots of offering?

Yup, and if you want to be OUTRAGED , Amazon actually sells the damn things directly, not through a 3rd party seller.

https://www.amazon.com/Mens-Im...DKIKX0DER&th=1&psc=1

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
I’m just astounded at the responses.

Astounded: to overwhelm with amazement; astonish greatly; shock with wonder or surprise.


Astounded? Really? If you're running a business why would you alienate half of your customers by selling something stupid? Politically stupid. Walmart not having a staff that could pick that up seems "astounding" to me. How fucking stupid (or astounding) is that? Nothing in this thread seems to astounding to me except Walmart's political stupidity.

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
What would you like them to do? Not allow either to be sold? That is a very bad road to be on, censorship is never a good thing...

I'm mildly surprised that you would think a private company refusing to sell something is censorship? If you owned an online business would you feel OK pulling (or censoring) merchandise that you thought might alienate your customer base? After all, censorship is a very bad thing.

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
However, MAGA gear is still being sold. That is wrong in my book, and I voted for Trump.

Wrong how? Did Walmart make a business decision so that their customers won't be pissed off and quit shopping with them? They could be wrong, very wrong by continuing to sell it. It's up to them. They could have continued to sell the "impeach" line if they thought it would make more money. Obviously they didn't think that with the flak that was being sent their way. Online businesses are not out there to push the 1st amendment. They can sell, or refuse to sell, anything they want.

I’d love to see someone wearing that shirt. I’d ask em if they are amped for a Pence presidency because that’s what their shirt is saying.

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Originally posted by Bytes:

I'm mildly surprised that you would think a private company refusing to sell something is censorship? If you owned an online business would you feel OK pulling (or censoring) merchandise that you thought might alienate your customer base? After all, censorship is a very bad thing.


Wrong how? Did Walmart make a business decision so that their customers won't be pissed off and quit shopping with them? They could be wrong, very wrong by continuing to sell it. It's up to them. They could have continued to sell the "impeach" line if they thought it would make more money. Obviously they didn't think that with the flak that was being sent their way. Online businesses are not out there to push the 1st amendment. They can sell, or refuse to sell, anything they want.

Bytes, Walmart isn't selling anything. On their platform, you and I can sell whatever we'd like. This is a 3rd party seller, Old Glory, not an item sold by Walmart directly.

That seller, Old Glory, sold BOTH pro-Trump and anti-Trump shirts, as well as "Hillary for Prison" and other random shirts. That, in my opinion, is the correct approach - ensure that both sides can purchase items that they want to buy.

By us ranting and raving, we have asked Walmart to stop selling any political themed merchandise. Next up will be them removing MAGA hats from being sold on their platform, I'm guessing. As for my censorship comment, in this case Walmart pulled any political merchandise - who, exactly, determines what is political merchandise going forward? Is 2nd amendment gear considered political? Private companies can do whatever they'd like, but we have seen in the US through media (social and otherwise) how that ends up working out.

I'd rather live in a free market where sellers can sell whatever they'd like, and we choose to buy it or not. However, that may just be me...

They're a privately owned company.
They can sell whatever they want.
I don't have the right to tell them what they can or cannot sell.

I believe that as an entity retailing goods in the US, they should have that right. The primary reason that a business exists is to make money. Obviously the crap they sell makes money or they wouldn't offer it for sale. I don't have the right to tell them what to sell or what not to sell.

I can choose not to buy from them but I'm not going to insist that everyone boycott them. That is not the American way.
That is what the Left does.