Do-It-Yourself Tattoo Kit For 'Beginners' Sold On Australia's Big W Website; Netizens Appalled
Big W received backlash after a DIY tattoo kit was listed on its online marketplace.
In a screenshot reposted on a Reddit thread, the now-deleted product listing by Big W's third-party retailer offered online shoppers a $111 beginner tattoo kit set.
The kit featured needles, inks, a tattoo gun and other equipment.
With this, the listing became a hot topic of discussion on the r/australia Reddit thread captioned, "Big W marketplace is currently selling a 'beginner's tattoo kit. The intern who vetted this supplier is getting in trouble today."
Big W has been slammed over an at-home tattoo kit, which was available for shoppers of all ages to purchase online for a limited time, before being removed from the site.
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"Beginner's tattoo kit is $111. [The] beginner's tattoo removal kit is $1,110," one Reddit user commented.
"Is there an age limit on purchasing this? I can only imagine the horror of a 14-year-old boy buying one of these and trying it out on his 10-year-old sister," quipped another.
"Had a mate send the Big W link a few days ago. I'm currently reporting this to NSW Fair Trading and QLD Licensing & Health. The process we tattoo artists have to jump through in QLD & NSW to be licensed, fingerprinted, background checked by SLED, and hold our TAFE health training certificate, which costs us hundreds of dollars every year, is there for a reason," wrote a third netizen.
"The s*** tattoos that this will produce will be hilarious," joked a different user, while another said, "Yay! More content to come for r/s***tytattoos."
"This marketplace crap needs to end. I was looking for grinders, and it kept defaulting to coffee grinders," someone else stated.
"Yay, love that every store has opened themselves up to the Amazon -- or should I say Aliexpress -- style of serving random, unverified, cheaply made needless s***...," opined another netizen.
Fortunately, no "beginner" tattoo kits were sold before the listing got removed, a Big W spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.
"The tattoo kit was recently listed on BIG W Market, and we acknowledge this product was not categorized correctly. We can confirm we have removed it from sale, and no orders have been fulfilled," the online marketplace said in a statement.
