Talk:FedEx furniture

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[edit] Major Expansion (December, 2005

Please be on the lookup for a persistent vandal who has, I believe, used sock puppets to undermine this page -- for example, by asserting that Avila is a "habitual masturbator" and has "pink hair." Perhaps this individual is not truly a vandal, but rather a potential contributor who was outraged by a perceived anti-corporate slant to previous versions of this article; if so, I hope the current version does a good enough job telling FedEx's side of the story that he or she will stop abusing the page.Bryan 15:43, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FedEx' arguments

I'm a non-US citizen, and I have no experience with FedEx whatsoever. When I first dumped over this story, I really believed that the furniture was built from used boxes. Used cardboxes are really plentiful, and a valuable resource - furniture built out of used cardboard boxes is good resource utilization, as those boxes usually are burnt or thrown away. I'm also concerned that the DMCA can be used for anyone to shut down any site they dislike, so I got interessted and googled a bit around on this story.

My view on the story got a bit changed when I learnt that FedEx provides new boxes for free for their customers - of course, this means that if FedExFurniture got popular, FedEx would be sponsoring most of the costs. I've added this bit of information into the page, and I think it's a bit important to keep it there.

Another argument I saw once was that "FedEx doesn't want any responsibility for customers injuring themselves on FedexFurniture". I think that's also worth including, as a non-US citizen I find such argumentation amuzing :-) However, I'm without references, and I don't see where it could fit with the current design.

tobixen 16:03, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Still, FedEx shouldn't do that. That's ridiculous.

I dislike that the section describing the rationale behind FedEx' action has disappeared. tobixen 00:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)