Hi all. Just wanted to chime in on this terribly embarrassing situation...

The descriptions were originally written by $5 Submissions, as Gene posted on some of the other boards. While I'm glad that nobody here on our staff was responsible for actually writing the descriptions, it was still our responsibility to do quality control, and check the descriptions for problematic text. When the text was reviewed, we caught other problems and errors in the text, but did not catch these descriptions, obviously.

Lee, I understand your point re: outsourcing, but to me this is more of a problem of oversight on our part than a problem with outsourcing as a practice, per se. Sometimes, when there is more work to be done than people in-house to do it, outsourcing makes a lot of sense. What this situation underscores is the need to carefully check the work that you outsource - that is where we failed on this one, ultimately.

At any rate, we are rewriting/replacing those descriptions now, and I apologize on behalf of both myself and the company for the offensive descriptions making it into the final product.

- Q.