Preying upon the vintage nerds
Dicks. SO many dicks out there on the interwebs. Leaving virtual spooge on our screens and an ether trail of fake websites / Facebook pages / online stores. Preying upon the vintage clothing / cheap electronics / insert niche market here nerds.
I freely admit, I click that bait. Vintage style wool coat? The Angels’ chorus sings: Halle-fucking-lujah! My years’ long search is now over!!
It’s only $50.12!!! Shit. That price is too low.
Too low, you say? Yeah, it’s too fucking low. Come on, even the Bay when it’s selling its wool coats for 50% off will still rate $100 or more for a well made wool coat.
It’s a fucking scam.
Victorian style boots? $42.46.
Vintage Dress? $34.59.
Mother fucker.
Go ahead and order from this site. You’re right, the price is SO GOOD. And you might even get something shipped to you that could possibly, maybe somewhat resemble the product in the photo, but odds are you’re not going to see it and when you attempt to contact the sales department asking either where it is or try to figure out how to get your money back for the piece of shit that they did ship you – the company will be long gone.
Want an I PHONE 11 for $100? You’re not going to get it. An accurately-crafted Victorian ensemble for $30? You are deluding yourself.
The modern snake-oil salesmen are pitching to the niche nerds / bargain hunters and will keep doing it as long as people are buying it. And then you read in the comments sections of “Is <insert fraudulent company name here> a scam/legit?” from all the poor schmucks who only wanted a double-breasted wool English riding jacket for $35 instead of $350 for the real deal and are shocked that they didn’t get it.
If it seems too good to be true? Come on now… everyone!
“IT’S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!!”
Google it. DuckDuckGo it. Hell, you can fucking Bing it. Just don’t buy it.