You know how you get those pop up ads that appear almost magically to reflect topics you have been googling? I don't know if it just me but when ads for an online fashion business called "NewChic"cropped up, I felt slightly sick.
At first I thought it might be a bad taste joke, but no! This company is touting a range of products connected with COVID 19 - from whole body suits to masks and goggles and as you can see in the three examples shown here - protective headgear.
Should any business be gratuitously and blatantly profiting from the current crisis? In my way of thinking - certainly not. If "NewChic" has the wherewithal to produce this range of protective products they should instead be putting their manufacturing processes into the hands of National Health Service Personal Protection Equipment procurers and being a part of the fight back against the virus.
Many carers, doctors and nurses are crying out for P.P.E. and there's "NewChic" merrily seeking to make money out of this awful health crisis. I believe it's not right. What do you think?
You know what? Nothing makes any sense to me right now. Of course production of products like this should be going to our health care workers. But hey- you know! Capitalism!
ReplyDeleteAs I said tonight on my post, sometimes I think humans are just too stupid to live.
I thought that capitalism was when you became obsessed with knowing the capital cities of the world.
DeleteI get New Chic products popping up regularly. They are not legit, their reviews are terrible. They often don't deliver on orders or the product is so sub standard as to be unusable. It's extortion but it's every day extortion, not covid related
ReplyDeleteThey are definitely marketing these products in direct relation to the pandemic.
Deleteah yea, sorry, i expressed that poorly. What i meant was they are crooks every day, this is just more of the same
DeleteOkay. I get you now Kylie. Thanks.
DeleteI've seen these as well and agree with you 100%. I doubt these products even actually work to reduce virus spread, although I'm sure there are plenty of naive folks out there who think they will. Money, money, money . . .
ReplyDeleteIt's so funny in a rich man's world.
DeleteNot fair at all. We have to pull together to get out of this situation.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteI've been seeing ads like this too. No, it's not right. Money is all that matters to some. I've also been getting a lot of ads for toliet paper and hand sanitiser! Those companies don't even need to advertise right now - you still can't buy that stuff.
ReplyDeleteIn all this pain and anxiety, parasites still thrive.
DeleteThe last thing the NHS needs to spend its money on are shonky products from a manufacturer with a doubtful reputation. See Kylie's comment..
ReplyDeleteThese so-called 'fashion garments' are aimed at a market where people are gullible or anxious or both.
Fools and their money are soon parted. More landfill, as if there isn't enough already.
Alphie
With guidance and better directed manufacturing procedures I am sure that the factories concerned could easily produce protection equipment that would be acceptable to health services.
DeleteYou're kidding. Guidance from whom? Your ideas and theirs are poles apart.
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From governments or government health departments or the W.H.O. Alphie. After all, we are in a war.
DeleteThese full face visors are not new - they've been worn by scooter riders in Asia for years, now just being marketed as a Covid19 protection. Someone is flogging them via online ads at an inflated price but you can still get them on ebay for four quid. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398264/Fad-Darth-Vader-like-visors-sweeps-China-fears-grow-exposure-sun.html
ReplyDeleteI guess it is what they call entrepreneurship.
DeleteI have been told that this company is based in China. Their ads for cheap fashion crop up in the most bizarre places online.
ReplyDeleteTolerable in normal times but not now.
DeleteWell, if these products were worth their money and would make a return to normal easier for the general public, there was nothing wrong with it. Also, that way, the proper masks and protective suits etc. would be left for those who really need them most - anyone working in health care.
ReplyDeleteThat companies and individuals seek profit is nothing new, or wrong as such. Wrong is it when they sell overpriced rubbish that does not live up to their claims.
One other thing: If companies can keep producing, and thus keep their employees from becoming unemployed, that is not necessarily a bad thing, is it.
Don't get me wrong - I am not supporting New Chic or any other such company. I am just trying to think it through and looking at it from different angles.
I had considered all those angles before creating this blogpost but in the end and in my opinion, what they are doing stinks.
DeleteYour blog YP, your opinion. I will add my opinion. Yes, it stinks. Jumping on the bandwagon, profiteering from peoples anxieties and misery. There are many videos on how to make a face screen, no need to buy one.
DeleteThanks MQ. I could have also illustrated with body suits, masks and googles etc. bu I chose the headgear. I never thought my opinion on this would be even slightly amiss.
DeleteI am sorry that I gave away my full face motorcycle helmet now, though I seem to remember they have been banned in shops.
DeleteProbably fine during the lockdown Meanqueen.
DeleteIt does stink, no doubt about that. I just wanted to add a different perspective, not wanted to offend.
DeleteWhat first came to mind when I read your post was something you wrote about the non-functional "life vests" sold to those poor souls trying to reach Europe by boat.
Yes I remember them. I wonder if crooks are still giving them to desperate migrants.
DeleteNone of that stuff has medical value anyway. It's fashion vaguely reminiscent of coronavirus, but it's not actually offering protection. It's just in bad taste. At least they call them "sun hats" and not "anti-virus hats."
ReplyDeleteThere is certainly the implication on this site as a whole that their products will provide virus protection.
DeleteThat top one is like my strimmer shield. Cor look at the eyes on the one in the bottom picture? No long will couples need to wear bags over their heads or turn off the light during trains and tunnels.
ReplyDeleteI suspect your missus prefers you in your strimmer shield. Do you wear it in bed?
DeleteOnly if I am peeling onions. Mike Harding a Yorkshire Dale's resident said God gave us belly buttons so we can put potatoes in them and peel them in bed!
ReplyDeleteCould be hazardous to health. Lord knows what bacteria lurk in there.
DeleteI read somewhere that the porn industry is responding by making videos of people having sex in hazmat suits. Ooooh! Kinky! Rip my velcro!
ReplyDeleteYou probably read this in your favourite porn site "Women's Institute XXXXX".
DeleteDoes that have pictures of extra extra extra extra extra large women?
DeleteYou know what it means sir. Your visits to the site have been logged on the dark net. Exceeding 3,750 visits.
DeleteDifficult to write when I'm following porn comments! But as there are right ways of doing things there is also wrong. Just shows up the ignorant idiots who think they can make a penny out of any thing.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame me about the porn Thelma! That dirty boy Tasker started it first.
DeleteSorry, Thelma.
DeleteI don't care. Let them wear tat. What I would like to know why is it ok, all of a sudden, to cover up your faces (be it out of fear or fashion) when not so long ago there was a massive outrage (not by me) about women (and school girls) wearing burkas and the like? The line went along "disguising faces", face recognition, bla bla. Now it's ok that no one can identify you for sure? Let's bring on the head gear: hoodies, balaclavas and motor cycle helmets. Make mine a veil. Lacey, black.
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You make a good point Ursula. Quite ironic. Looks like they might be telling us to wear masks pretty soon. I will be The Lone Ranger. Ho! Silver!
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