Sears Caught Selling “Grills to Cook Babies”!

August 21, 2009 by: My Way

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Yesterday a guy screen captured a Sears product page with a suspicious category description (see above). By the time we got around to checking it out, Sears had corrected the error. It turns out, however, that the real problem was the Sears website was built in a way that lets anyone mess with the category descriptions.

Until it was fixed, you could simply change category values in the URL and they’d show up on the page, which meant you could send your friends and family to all sorts of creatively named product listings:

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