Has anyone seen the bladder control products?

So Cookie is one of the chosen few who participates in BIG ONLINE RETAILER MARKETING REVIEW PROGRAM, a review program that BIG ONLINE RETAILER conducts.  BORMRP works by sending out items to people for free, in return for use and review.  Where do they get the items?  Manufacturers provide them at their cost.  They may get ten widgets from International Amalgamated - "We make everything, you can have everything" -  or they might get 500 sanitary napkins from Amalgamated International  - "Discerning products for picky people."

Sometimes, its feast (computers, mattresses, lawn mowers) other times its famine.  Mostly, it is famine.  I would love to say that everything we get is fantastic, but sometimes we get products that are duds.

Cookie's job is to give an honest review.  NOTE: Cookie does not "logroll" his reviews.  What is logrolling?  Logrolling is the old term that was used in publishing by big name people who would provide GLOWING reviews just to get their names and quotes on the back of the book because the PR was better than nothing.

When I review, its the good, the bad and the ugly.

One review even drew the ire of the manufacturer, but the product was obtuse and support was all in pictograms.  It was so high tech that the creators got lost in its design supremacy. 

There have been winners - like the coffee maker that is so exclusive that I would never hope to own one, but now that I do, I cannot imagine anything better.  There have been losers, like the item above (its real use was never clear to me), or the set of bamboo sheets that disintegrated in the washer right out of the package.

Things remain on the catalog page for a couple days - the best stuff gets snatched up in a hurry.  The stuff that languishes, however, ends up in something called "Something For Everyone", which is a dustbin of unloved, unwanted things.  You know, inflatable cat mattresses, one single cupboard doorknob, and course things like "Men's Extra Small Under Armour Tank Top, Moss Oak Camo".

Part the reason why these things languish is that they are simply too specific ("Amana RADAR Range Replacement Glass Tray") or they get lost because people don't know how to catalog them.  Like the item above: 

Mixed in with hinges, switches, cotter pins and wires in the INDUSTRIAL & SCIENTIFIC category is an Incontinence Pad. 

Industrial?  No.

Scientific?  Debatable.

Meanwhile, these will stay here, unnoticed, and unwanted.  Not because they aren't needed, but because they are in the wrong place.   Somewhere, someone is leaking and they never thought to look under the deal that sends one a SINGLE hinge.

And while you may think that this a boffo program to be on, I have no advice as to how you do it, because I certainly don't know how I got into it.  AND you have to pay taxes on the value basis of the item. 

I am grateful I am part of it?  Yes.  Am I mad because all their clothing options sent to me are women's clothing?  No.  But then again, you can't review what you can't use.