And here I thought that online stores that constantly have 50% off sales are just shady!

@olmitch @coolboymew bro 3 of my friends got duped by some lightsaber scam website because of that xD

What happened???

@olmitch @coolboymew they showed these pictures of amazing lightsabers on the website and they all had different designs for each character. They were like 80% off or something and still $45. So they all bought them and they turned out to be all exactly the same cheap plastic, tiny rave lightsabers that changed color when you hit them on something xD they even had a strobe mode xD

When they were explaining it to me I was like oh, that's cool. I have no interest in star wars but good for them. Then the packages actually came and I was like.... Oh no xD that's when I looked at the website and it was SO OBVIOUSLY A SCAM man, I swear most people really are NPCs.

Mypillow has a 40% or 50% sale going all the time but the products aren't scam, they are actually quite nice. I have the sheets, pillows, and bath towel

@olmitch @beardalaxy yeah that's kind of the marketing trick "sales all the times". On top of that they have an idiot catch in that you literally give away coupon codes all the times. It's literally what the picture talks about

The products being nice or not are irrelevant from the trick

@coolboymew @olmitch look at all these brands that advertise through youtuber sponsorships. there is always some sort of deal going on or some sort of code you can use to get them for cheaper, and even if you can find more quality for the end price somewhere else people still buy them in droves because a youtuber talked about it.

case in point: raycons.

Haha fuck Raycons I've had this same set of Skull Candies for years now, completely reliable

@olmitch @coolboymew skullcandies are kind of meh too but they've got a lifetime warranty so that's the nice part.

i used to get heavily discounted skullcandy stuff because i had a friend whose uncle owned the company. so that was cool.

@beardalaxy @olmitch I once got a set of them on a groupon and they sounded on the level of dollar store headphones, I was not impressed

@coolboymew @olmitch the cool skullcandy stuff is the stuff with gimmicks. like the skullcrushers which have actual subs in them. or they have a hoodie with spots to put speakers inside of that zips all the way up.

if you're actually trying to get a good pair of cans though, skullcandy aint it.

Fuck yeah, I had the skullcrushers for a while, they took batteries and would bounce off the sides of my head just about. I've never been a $200 studio headphones kind of guy. I'm a tune my $30 earbuds with a software DSP kind of guy.

@olmitch @beardalaxy I'm the 40$ earbuds that's actually amazing for the price, refurb wireless samsung earbuds at a 100$+ discount and nice studio headphones kinda guy

@coolboymew @olmitch i like stuff in the $100-$150 range that sounds really good for the price. i use an AT M40x. Didn't go for the M50x because I just like the sound of the 40 better. probably the best cans you can get for $100 and it honestly is my favorite sounding one from what i've tried. only thing i don't like about them is the pleather that has started to peel now, so i had to buy new ear cups and will have to get a cover for the band soon.

then i have a pair of aftershokz, those bone conduction things. the sound quality is obviously not going to be great, but for what they are it's still really nice. i think those were around $100 too. i use them for work and walking so i can still hear my surroundings.

@beardalaxy @olmitch I stayed with the good old same old, went with sennheiser HD 599SE