The main arguements against this are twofold - firstly questions of this sort are unlikely to be useful to anyone else. Its pretty close to the textbook shopping question, and even if someone wanted the exact same duck toy, not trivially searchable or findable. Its also possible that a product no longer is on the market, and generally in practice this class of question is kind of useless to anyone but the OP

While scifi does allow storyids, they're problematic. Personally I'd prefer questions to be far more than just an image and a very vague description. On superuser, and hardware ID questions, we went with a "community FAQ" with a broad set of hardware, but that wouldn't work well here either.

This is closer to a classic product recommendation

As you can tell, I'm not a fan of these sort of questions and I feel they're not a good fit for the SE model.

On the other hand, questions asking for a broad class of options - like here where collars didn't quite work for the dog or here where a broad class of breathing protection is what I suggested work well because there will always be harnesses or N95 masks around. These are a better fit than the example question given

The main arguments against this are twofold - firstly, questions of this sort are unlikely to be useful to anyone else. It's pretty close to the textbook shopping question, and even if someone wanted the exact same duck toy, not trivially searchable or findable. It's also possible that a product is no longer on the market, and generally in practice this class of question is kind of useless to anyone but the OP.

While Science Fiction & Fantasy SE does allow storyids, they're problematic. Personally, I'd prefer questions to be far more than just an image and a very vague description. On superuser, and hardware ID questions, we went with a "community FAQ" with a broad set of hardware, but that wouldn't work well here either.

This is closer to a classic product recommendation

As you can tell, I'm not a fan of these sort of questions and I feel they're not a good fit for the SE model.

On the other hand, questions asking for a broad class of options - like here where collars didn't quite work for the dog or here where a broad class of breathing protection is what I suggested work well because there will always be harnesses or N95 masks around. These are a better fit than the example question given

The main arguements against this are twofold - firstly questions of this sort are unlikely to be useful to anyone else. Its pretty close to the textbook shopping question, and even if someone wanted the exact same duck toy, not trivially searchable or findable. In practice its kind of useless to anyone but the OP

While scifi does allow storyids, they're problematic. Personally I'd prefer questions to be far more than just an image and a very vague description. On superuser, and hardware ID questions, we went with a "community FAQ" with a broad set of hardware, but that wouldn't work well here either.

As you can tell, I'm not a fan of these sort of questions and I feel they're not a good fit for the SE model.

The main arguements against this are twofold - firstly questions of this sort are unlikely to be useful to anyone else. Its pretty close to the textbook shopping question, and even if someone wanted the exact same duck toy, not trivially searchable or findable. Its also possible that a product no longer is on the market, and generally in practice this class of question is kind of useless to anyone but the OP

While scifi does allow storyids, they're problematic. Personally I'd prefer questions to be far more than just an image and a very vague description. On superuser, and hardware ID questions, we went with a "community FAQ" with a broad set of hardware, but that wouldn't work well here either.

This is closer to a classic product recommendation

As you can tell, I'm not a fan of these sort of questions and I feel they're not a good fit for the SE model.

On the other hand, questions asking for a broad class of options - like here where collars didn't quite work for the dog or here where a broad class of breathing protection is what I suggested work well because there will always be harnesses or N95 masks around. These are a better fit than the example question given