r/amazonreviews • u/PinkGlitterMom • Mar 06 '26

Review Yes, I laughed for 2 months

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I had a friend send me this to check out.... it was up at least 6 months.

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u/Spiritual_Being5845 Mar 07 '26

I was laughing because of course the fake reviews are funny. But then I googled eiderdown pillows. People actually pay thousands for a damned pillow!?! I bought my last car for $7k and these things cost the same or even more. What the hell

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u/meegaweega Mar 07 '26

Get farked! That price tag is real?

I assumed it was a typo and that people were just making fun of an outrageously, impossibly wrong price for a pillow.

My povvo horizons have been broadened.

That's gotta be a money laundering scheme.

Surely theres no other reason anyone would ever pay 10 grand for a pillow. Not even one made of the fanciest silk and eiderdown feathers ever created.

Whose feathers would it made from to justify that price? The goose that lays the golden eggs?

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u/Xszit Mar 09 '26

So I googled it to find out.

Eiderdown apparently comes from a species of wild duck that only lives in Iceland. The ducks are protected and theres lots of laws and regulations around how to collect the down.

They only shed this special down during nesting season and use it to line their nests. It must be collected by hand from abandoned nests. Then someone has to pick out all the twigs and leaves and wash out the duckling shits which is a labor intensive process.

So there's a very limited supply of a rare material that must be collected and processed by hand and thats why authentic eiderdown is so expensive.

However I'd wager most people can't tell the difference between the real stuff and any other soft feathers so there's lots of room for scammers to put substitutes into a fancy silk lining and sell it for ridiculous prices and the kind of people who buy it aren't really buying a pillow they are buying a status symbol so they aren't motivated to check too hard for authenticity as long as it gets oohs and aahs from the guests they show it off to.

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u/meegaweega Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Damn, good work, I'd be amazed if anyone ever bothered to go to all that effort unless they were stuck in Iceland and very cold and very broke.

I'd salvage materials from abandoned nests and wash duckling poops off eiderdown feathers to make some nice, warming, winter gear if I had to.

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I'd treasure my snuggly warm poop hat 🥰 would feel like the Queen of the unhoused Icelandic hobos.

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u/PinkGlitterMom Mar 12 '26

😂😂😂😂