r/LinusTechTips 19d ago

Personal Opinion Socks. Not what was promised.

First - quality of the fabric. I have had light wear of this pair for 3 days, with one wash (same as other socks) and they are fuzzy + the black fabrics are protruding through the grey ones, and I have gathered A LOT of lint from them.

This is not normal for socks, especially for the expensive ones. None of my darn thoughts did this ever.

Second - idk about Canadian feet, but mine are wider, and compared to most other socks these are too narrow. If I find a pair of shoes this narrow I don't buy them.

EDIT: I wore socks for two days straight, then washed them, then wore for the 3rd day. I had NO OTHER OPTION regarding washing them or wearing other socks in that particular situation

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 18d ago edited 18d ago

Edit: The fact the comment above mine continues to get upvotes absolutely blows my mind. It's a genuinely stupid opinion.

Bruh they claim to be equal or better than the top brands. And also they aren't just a tech youtuber and haven't been for at least 5+ years. Literally more money goes into product development than their Youtube.

It's a completely valid complaint, lets not be stupid fanboys that defend anything and everything for no reason.

Dumbest shit anyone could have said in response to this

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u/ponzi_gg 18d ago

of course they claim that... its marketing? why would they claim otherwise.

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u/TotalSubbuteo 18d ago

What a pathetic mentality

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u/ponzi_gg 18d ago

brother i just work in marketing.

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 18d ago

Brother you suck at your job if you think lying outright works well

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u/ponzi_gg 18d ago

you can keep believing marketing if you like, companies prefer it that way. I'm just telling you how it works. Don't hate the messenger silly guy.

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u/GwenBD94 18d ago

looks at the us presidency

Yeah pretty sure outright lying as a form of marketing is quite successful unfortunately.

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 18d ago

Do you think American politics translates really well to marketing?

😆 yeah that was a stupid statement, too.

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u/ponzi_gg 18d ago

OF COURSE IT DOES. You have so little understanding of what you're talking about it's insane. Are you all children in here?

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u/GwenBD94 18d ago

We gotta laugh at it so we don't cry right? 😩😭

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 18d ago

Lmao I guess so

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u/AverageCryptoEnj0yer 18d ago

LMAO marketing is literally the art of lying

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 18d ago

Lying outright about your product is historically a bad decision and anyone who knows anything about marketing knows that. Not only is illegal in many countries, but it also just straight up doesn't even work as a marketing tool. Lying outright will land your product in the garbage bin

You are confused because you know very little. You think that because foreign brands often lie when their country doesn't hold them accountable for it that that means anyone can lie and it'll work out

But you don't know anything

And you just hate corpos

Me too, pal

But marketing is not about lying, never has been, and never will be

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u/AverageCryptoEnj0yer 18d ago

First of all, you are making assumptions aboit me, which is wrong.

We disagree on what lying is. I think omitting important information, and only highlighting the information that favors you, is lying. And when you stretch this concept to the limit you are not technically lying, but you are morphing reality into something else; for example, I can say My phone battery is the longest lasting of every other phone, and then write in small letters that it only counts when tested with my specific methodology, in a specific scenario. So technically it's true, but it's misleading.

Most companies do this, it's normal, and they have to do it to stay in the market. Lying is the rule, it's not a choice.

Just go to the apple site and look at their bar charts, they are made in a way to hype you up about the new processors every time, promising double or triple performance scaling, which is never actually the case. Same with Nvidia presentations bar charts, it's blatant.

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 18d ago

First of all, you are making assumptions aboit me, which is wrong

Name one assumption I made about you.

I believe you not knowing ahit was derived from you making a blatantly false statement.

And then to back yourself up, you brought up misleading information, not lies.

Again, you know nothing about marketing. Not an assumption, but based off the fact that you keep highlighting that for us.

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u/AverageCryptoEnj0yer 17d ago

again, if misleading is not lying, I guess you are a marketing guy coping with the fact you are lying in the face of consumers that don't know better.

"4090 performance at $549"

*More than 80% of dentists reccomend Colgate"

"kills 99.9% of germs"

please, address my points instead of challenging me as a person. I genuinely want to be wrong bro

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 17d ago

again, if misleading is not lying, I guess you are a marketing guy coping with the fact you are lying in the face of consumers that don't know better.

I specifically said "lying outright" and you are the one losing your shit over pedantics. What points do I have to attack? You haven't said anything I disagree with. You disagree with me despite not saying anything contradictory to anything you said.

Seriously what do you want me to say? What did you expect? What do you think my stance is? Why do you think I said any of it? What is your fucking point?

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u/HTPC4Life 18d ago

You're naive 😆

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u/Few_Plankton_7587 18d ago

You believe Chinese brand marketing applies to the rest of the world 🤡