Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I could never get into cycling, not only do you look like a dork, it has a ton of specialized products that are aimed specifically at reducing discomfort to your ass and genitals. Seats, lotions, special pants.

Spoiler: Powerlevel

I own a cheap aluminium bike and I ride it when it's warm and I want to get some exercise. I've never owned and don't want to own any of the expensive crap that cyclists seem to love. I've also never written to local councils demanding special bike lanes in every road just so that I can ride down an A road at 15mph to own those dang, dirty motoriats.

There's a difference between cyclists and people who own bikes. The first are intolerable, the second less so.

 

[NoReturn]

Inspired by a mention of Party City, which isn't really "Consoomer" (though it is extremely wasteful as their entire business is built around people buying things for cheap and then immediately throwing them away.) I wanted to bring up the people who consoom cheap-cheap bullshit:

Spoiler: More in here

 

[Toolbox]

Inspired by a mention of Party City, which isn't really "Consoomer" (though it is extremely wasteful as their entire business is built around people buying things for cheap and then immediately throwing them away.) I wanted to bring up the people who consoom cheap-cheap bullshit:
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Spoiler: More in here

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Is the first girl really what party cities marketing looks like now or is she really doing it for free (or no more than her current paycheck)? Either way very sad. Especially since it probably works.

"Shopping is cheaper than therapy" and you solve none of your issues, become hopelessly addicted to hoarding nonsense you barely care about, and likely generate a ton of waste from packaging alone. Cool! Why is TJ Max a 'hip' store now anyway? Isn't it just another among many generic big box stores selling to primarily millennial and middle aged white women?

Strawberry chair bitch, why doesn't she just buy it online if she's this obsessed? How much of her day did she actually waste going on a wild goose chase to find a plastic mold of a fruit?

 

[cuddle striker]

medical merch: you haven't lived until you've drunk your whiskey from a shepherd's formula mug (they make eye caps, embalming fluids, etc, mortuary stuff)

I've also got a lot of hydrol merch for some reason, and champion (forensic gear and embalming fluids, respectively) these were just in the offices when I started, and I've slowly claimed them.

Chemical and medical corporate groups give out so much brand junk to "promote".

 

[Dangerhair]

Why is TJ Max a 'hip' store now anyway? Isn't it just another among many generic big box stores selling to primarily millennial and middle aged white women?

I have seen it posited that there are actually a few different types of shopping addict- not all of them are like hoarders. Some of them are more like gambling addicts, others are like the classic consoomer type. The common theme is they're all trying to fill a hole, but different shaped holes in different ways.

Basically, you have:

The Classic: Shops to fill time, buys for the sake of buying. Often co-morbid with hoarding.

The Prepper/Giver: Always on the hunt for "gifts" for other people. Starts Christmas shopping on December 26th, buys both boys' and girls' baby items the second a relative announces they're pregnant, always has a hoard of cheap crap as "stocking stuffers" and "just because" occasions. When called out, they act indignant because of their "generosity".

The Perfectionist: Needs to find the perfect item. Will showroom/webroom similar, or even almost the same item, sometimes for hours a day for weeks on end. Although they never have anywhere close to as much crap as other compulsive shoppers, they still spend tons of time on it, and move on to the next treasure for the curated collection once they find one.

The Completionist: Always needs just one more to complete the collection. As soon as they get it though, there's always something slightly better or a "limited edition" they "need".

The Deal Hunter: Obsessed with getting a "deal", love huge markdowns and coupons. Will buy crap they don't even want, let alone need because they can't stand the idea of passing up a great deal/savings.

TJ Maxx appeals to the Deal Hunter, Classic and Prepper/Giver types most, and they're less picky about what they buy, as long as they're buying and think they're getting a deal. Most TJ Maxx stuff isn't even designer markdowns and overstock, it's factory seconds and cheap, low quality lines specifically made for them, as well as a lot of bigger labels licensing cheap products for them,

 

[Flaming Carrot]

There's a pretty good article about this:

Are You Taking The False First Step? - Break the Twitch

While we might have the right goals, we're trying to reach them in all the wrong ways by taking false first step after false first step.

www.breakthetwitch.com

Buying stuff makes people feel like they accomplished something before actually doing the thing

I remember when I first took up running several years ago, I got advice that you should wait to buy any special running stuff. Like, no clothes, no running shoes, no special watches - just go out wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and Couch-to-5K, and buy that stuff later if you found out your enjoyed it. This article makes a lot of sense.

 

[Jazz never died!]

I think everyone has a consumer tendency especially if its related to a favorite franchise few are able to detach themselves if it turns to shit then again looking at the numbers at Star Wars, Mass Effect, Star Trek for example they are all franchises in decline for pissing off the fans intentioned or not. Star Wars there are those who love or hate the prequels those who hated screamed it to the hills and harassed Jake Loyd to have depression and George getting sick of the hate said fuck it I'll sell to a friend. That friend ruined it to appease those who hated the prequels by being a nostalgia trip and killing off all of the original characters without having a new character worth a damn. I'd rather take the average at best prequels with the exception of Episode 3 that film is great, over seeing a franchise die due to incompetent owners who hate the fans.
Mass Effect is self explanatory the 3rd ending sucks its too vague regarding choices and requires you to play the multiplayer to get the best ending even if you know how to make the best choices only for it to devolve into a light show. Then instead of making a direct sequel explaining what happend by letting you play though it they make a average game with one of the buggiest launches this gen only beaten recently by Cyberpunk. Then they remaster the trilogy and its fantastic i might add but there is controversy over the removal of ass shots of Miranda in a scene that everyone complained about for not fitting. The woke anti sjws bitched and moaned without understanding why it was removed. Now Bioware is making Mass Effect 4 i don't know if it'll be good but seeing as Mass Effect 1 remastered is now the best playing game thanks to them reworking the old code with new to make it great. I have reasonable hope if its like Andromeda i hope it'll be as unintentionally so bad it's good but is also decent. Or just good.
Now Star Trek. When the owner of the company has a brilliant idea to split the movie and tv sides into two separate companies leaving Star Trek in a weird legal grey spot that is best explained by the autists over at Midnight's Edge

But then again Bob "Mario Mario" Chipman is a prime example of a consoomer who is blinded by his want to indulge in pop culture while becoming more and more hated by those he wants so badly to be idolized by due to his overindulgent consumerism and sexist behavior.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

I remember when I first took up running several years ago, I got advice that you should wait to buy any special running stuff. Like, no clothes, no running shoes, no special watches - just go out wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and Couch-to-5K, and buy that stuff later if you found out your enjoyed it. This article makes a lot of sense.

I disagree somewhat. If your equipment sucks, you're less lucky to enjoy it and in the case of running it can be physically painful (since a lot of sneakers are too heavy to be comfortable, especially if you're not used to running). Of course that doesn't mean you need to buy a bunch of expensive-ass shit when you're just starting out or even buy a full set or whatever.

 

[Jones McCann]

This thread is the only place reasonable place I know where consoomer culture criticized and broken down without devolving into sperging about Jewish conspiracies and white genocide. Inviting these hate poster will only shit up this thread and contribute to nothing.

I used to be a member of /r/ConsumeProduct whenever it was on reddit, it was ironically a lot better back then. There was still some nigger/kike hate but it was definitely more focused. I don't mind the hate on niggers/kikes but I don't want to be inundated with it constantly. There use to be a lot of posts about self improvement and farming back then but they're pretty much gone now.

If you guys don't know about it /r/consumeproduct after it was deleted from reddit moved over to https://consumeproduct.win though I haven't checked it in the past couple months because it's a lot of nigger/kike hate and twitter screencaps. Nothing wrong with nigger/kike hate mind you just that it's usually not relevant at all to the forum. Those hate posters should instead come to Kiwifarms, the lolcow forum, to discuss their hatred of niggers/kikes.
Also if you want to see some old memes from the subreddit, I made a little archive site that hosts a portion of the content I could get that was still being served from a third-party reddit api.

https://deaditarchive.netlify.app/consumeproduct/

/r/coomer was another one which was banned before /r/consumeproduct and where a substantial amount of the userbase was from. As far as I know, there was no replacement for /r/coomer as there was for /r/consumeproduct. There's a full archive though which I plan to go through later.

 

[Toolbox]

I disagree somewhat. If your equipment sucks, you're less lucky to enjoy it and in the case of running it can be physically painful (since a lot of sneakers are too heavy to be comfortable, especially if you're not used to running). Of course that doesn't mean you need to buy a bunch of expensive-ass shit when you're just starting out or even buy a full set or whatever.

A lot of sneakers (mostly the expensive ones) tend to have way too much cushioning in general which modifies the way people walk in an iffy way. Running is one of those things where you should start with a light shoe and probably stick with it. Anything else goes away from relying on improving how you run.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

medical merch: you haven't lived until you've drunk your whiskey from a shepherd's formula mug (they make eye caps, embalming fluids, etc, mortuary stuff)

I've also got a lot of hydrol merch for some reason, and champion (forensic gear and embalming fluids, respectively) these were just in the offices when I started, and I've slowly claimed them.

Chemical and medical corporate groups give out so much brand junk to "promote".

A neighbor worked on some company that sold medical stuff so as he was cleaning house he gave me a bunch of office supplies and notepads and rolls of paper with pharma names on it for free. For me is just a bunch of cheap paper to draw on, the notepads for example have one side with the pharma logo and printed lines to write on but they are plain on the flipside so i turn them over and draw on them, i always keep one by my desk to take notes too, i don't even know what pills are they shilling but they've come in handy and i like having a lot of cheap disposable paper and pens to draw with that i couldn't care less about spoiling with random drawings or when making my autistic lists of things.

 

[Gar For Archer]

I disagree somewhat. If your equipment sucks, you're less lucky to enjoy it and in the case of running it can be physically painful (since a lot of sneakers are too heavy to be comfortable, especially if you're not used to running). Of course that doesn't mean you need to buy a bunch of expensive-ass shit when you're just starting out or even buy a full set or whatever.

A decent pair of running shoes (in the $100-150 range) really make a huge difference. I’m not an expert runner or anything but I see a pretty big difference in my posture and stamina when wearing proper running shoes vs. normal sneakers.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

medical merch opinion: my mom used to work at a doctor's office and would bring home pens and the occasional coffee cup. Have you ever drank your coffee out of a Viagra cup?

movie consooming: as an elitist faggot who collects Laserdiscs the people at r/boutiqueblurays look like they collect shitty horror films on these "boutique" blurays. Also, in some cases, the DVDs are actually better looking than Bluray "remasters". Also also as a faggot who buys media, I can say that the Bluray release of Batman The Animated Series that comes with Funkos actually put me off from buying it.

 

[Aunt Carol]

A neighbor worked on some company that sold medical stuff so as he was cleaning house he gave me a bunch of office supplies and notepads and rolls of paper with pharma names on it for free.

The ACA's Sunshine Act in 2010 squashed the supply of drug rep pens in the US, and wouldn't you know, there's now a nostalgia market for pharmaceutical marketing collectables.

Most likely you just have free scratch paper, but e.g. Viagra merch goes for a good price.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

The ACA's Sunshine Act in 2010 squashed the supply of drug rep pens in the US, and wouldn't you know, there's now a nostalgia market for pharmaceutical marketing collectables.

Most likely you just have free scratch paper, but e.g. Viagra merch goes for a good price.

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thats specially retarded, the only upside of having the pharma P.O.P material is it being free and they are all the most generic and cheap quality office supplies with nothing creative about them. Is all stuff the company paid some supplier to put the logo on without thinking about it, you could go to Kinkos and do the same if you like the ugly pharma logo so much. Then again, a lot of this consoomer hoarding nonsense if over worthless mass produced junk that never had much value to begin with, this is even more cinical as you would be chasing literal logotypes.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

movie consooming: as an elitist faggot who collects Laserdiscs the people at r/boutiqueblurays look like they collect shitty horror films on these "boutique" blurays. Also, in some cases, the DVDs are actually better looking than Bluray "remasters".

Some labels do put out quite a few films that I don't really understand paying boutique prices for given their level of quality is BoTW tier. That's even considering the usual leeway I give horror films as a relative fan of them.

Also also as a faggot who buys media, I can say that the Bluray release of Batman The Animated Series that comes with Funkos actually put me off from buying it.

God, I wish the funko special editions would just stop as it's also put me off of buying series. I know for a fact it also keeps other collectors away because of how atrocious funkos look. I was excited for the Bugs Bunny 80th anniversary release but it comes with this hellspawn so I'm stuck waiting for a non-cursed release that'll probably never come.

 

[NoReturn]

When called out, they act indignant because of their "generosity".

This one in particular is comorbid with so many other personality defects. It's rough. You ever see a child crying and screaming at their mother not to buy them a toy because the kid knows their mom is being irresponsible? Shit hurts.

 

[Dangerhair]

God, I wish the funko special editions would just stop as it's also put me off of buying series. I know for a fact it also keeps other collectors away because of how atrocious funkos look. I was excited for the Bugs Bunny 80th anniversary release but it comes with this hellspawn so I'm stuck waiting for a non-cursed release that'll probably never come.
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If you really want it, why not just buy it and sell the Funko at a huge markup?

 

[NoReturn]

If you really want it, why not just buy it and sell the Funko at a huge markup?

I think because the potential buyers are all people who would want to whole collection together.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

If you really want it, why not just buy it and sell the Funko at a huge markup?

Then you'd have the shame of buying a Funko.