Submitted 13 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to [deleted]
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the one that makes me irrationally angry is the used car dealership advertising. like the decals are annoying, but the license plate covers/border things that people don’t take off.
like do you really want to be advertising chuck and donna’s used car emporium every time you drive your car?
Thats always the first thing that I do when I come home. The license plate cover comes off, the stickers come off the back window, and I tey to take the branding on the metal off without hurting the paint. If they want me to advertise they can take a grand off the price.
Woah there! A grand for a license plate cover!?
Don’t sell yourself so short. You need continuous value, like free oil changes or labor discounts.
You can tell them at the dealership.
You can ask them to not put all that crap on your car and they will begrudgingly comply.
chuck and donna’s used car emporium? hell yeah especially if they use one of those inflatable gorillas out front. it’s the standard boring
top: [COUNTY NAME][CAR BRAND][DAUGHTER’S PET I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY NAME THESE]
bottom: SALES DEPARTMENT [phone number]
is a hard no
Mine are covered in Gorilla Tape. Once blacked out, the covers are quite nice.
Not even if its cheaper or free, they should pay you. I used to work at a musical instruments store and got lots of free brand shirts, I still wore them inside out to hide the logos.
That’s always been my opinion, they should be free.
The bigger the logo the less it costs. The expensive ones have usually a small well placed logo, so the post is already kinda right.
Only idiots wear shorts with logos on them.
Ahh… more downvotes. Thanks in advance.
i have no idea what this comment is. is it ragebait? is it smug? is it genuine? did they anticipate the downvotes because they believe this is an unpopular opinion? did they expect more downvotes? did they mean to say shirts? do they specifically scan for shirts without logos, no matter the price? do they think everyone in public with logos on his clothes is an idiot? does he have a superiority complex?
As someone who detests shirts with logos, and so buys ones without them, I’m okay with the current state of affairs. I don’t want to feel like buying a normal shirt is a premium purchase
hey guys, thrift stores are a thing, and a great way to get quality clothing for cheap.
a brand print doesnt mean better quality
YMMV.
The unbranded clothes can easily be Temu tissue-paper quality or so rough on the skin as to cause abrasions after walking around in them.
Branded clothing tend to have a higher floor, at least.
They’re currently being commercialized.
When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer’s market.
The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.
Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.
The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.
So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.
Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it’s most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.
I have to draw a line somewhere. Big corporations? Yeah, those are a no go - I either avoid them altogether or try to cut off/cover the logos if that doesn’t damage the item. Bands, independent artists and others I might be directly in touch with - those I’m actually happy to support and I’m more than willing to pay full price.
Isn’t the idea that the brand advertises the wearer?
Absolutely, it’s for advertising how you wish to be perceived by the people around you.
I bulk-buy white T-shirts, and dye them any color I want. What I want to get into next is silkscreen printing my own designs onto them, but it’s kinda expensive-ish to start and I’m poor :p
One small sense in which I’m proud of my younger self is that I had a similar insight to this around like 11, and pretty much decided then and there that I wasn’t going to pay to wear someone else’s logo (excepting bands & similar) and I would avoid wearing someone else’s logo if I wasn’t being paid to.
And I’ve pretty much stood by that. I’ve made some exceptions for smaller companies that I felt were doing something positive and worth promoting, or for open source things.
Ah my people.
Yeah being a brand white never sat well with me either.
Actually, no, I disagree.
If anybody pays top dollar for branded material, congrats, you’ve proven to everyone how much of a gullible corporate shill you are. Wear that badge of shame proudly!
I buy my shirts by the pound from a wholesaler. A buck or two a pop. They adequately keep the sawdust out of my chest hair.
Disposable clothing. A very bleak state of affairs.
Wish we could just own clothes that last, but I swear to God I have more luck raiding my parents closets for old Polos than buying off the rack.
I don’t consider them disposable, exactly. I don’t exactly intend them to be handed down through the generations (Exhibit A: I have no children) but I intend to keep them in service as long as any $40 logo tee is.
The only shirts I own are band shirts or plain black. Super cringe to advertise a brand imo.
al vehicles have big brand logos on front and back, and we all drive around like is normal
You’re free to take those off
took some bondo, sanding and spray paint, but i managed to remove the big bas-relief SATURN on the rear bumper
Lol this is a complete misunderstanding of how brands work.
People generally buy shirts with brands on it to say “look, I am an (insert brand here) type of person”.
You’re not advertising for the company. You’re paying to advertise yourself as one of their customers. It functionally acts as advertising for the brand, sure, but not in the way an actual advertisement does.
That’s almost worse. I buy brands because they last.
This is also a misunderstanding of how brands work because of course it goes both ways.
Ironic, Mr. Spiderman
You can buy plain t shirts at Michaels and they are nice. I have a bunch lol. I never printed anything in them I just wear them
They should pay me
Be famous and you can even get paid for wearing a logo
sightsteer for that which you support.
They kinda are, right? Most logo shirts are dirt cheap plastic/cotton crap that starts growing bacteria like crazy as soon as you put them on, causing you to smell bad.
I think Macklemore did us all a disservice by telling people $50 for a t-shirt means you’re getting swindled. $50 for a nice locally produced merino wool t-shirt is a bargain. It will keep you cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and you can use it for a week or more straight without it starting to smell bad.
I think Macklemore did us all a disservice by telling people $50 for a t-shirt means you’re getting swindled. $50 for a nice locally produced merino wool t-shirt is a bargain.
I imagine Macklemore’s point was that most people buying $50 shirts aren’t buying locally-produced clothes from a mom-and-pop shop; they’re buying overpriced, mass-produced shirts at department stores. I haven’t been to Kohl’s in a while, but I bet if I go to the men’s section at the one up the road from here, there will be an area with basic graphic t-shirts (mostly company logos like Coke) that are nearly $50.
Now that I’m on the topic, my most overpriced shirt is a Goo Goo Dolls shirt I picked up at a concert a few years ago. I really like the color of the shirt, but the cheap lettering on the front started coming off after a single wash. Very disappointing because it was a $45 shirt.
You usually don’t learn these things until you have a little experience or lots of disposable income.
You can get Merino Woll shirts for 50$?!
The best I found was 80+$ for a tshirt and 300+$ for a button up
This was the first invasion of privacy. Just like cellphones we willing chose it.
I am glad to say that I don’t think clothes are monitoring us… yet
I monitor if you have a red hat. See how that works
I either remove logos if they’re embroidered or cover them with Gorilla Tape if I’m trying to preserve resale value (Canada Goose jacket? Naw. It’s Sloppy Black Circle Company™️)
I got 5 wilkinson t-shirts for free so can’t complain
They should pay customers imo but we’re too stupid
Because brands create division and that’s what the govt wants
I think you’re giving them too much credit.
And do they really create division? Are people with adidas shirts fighting people with Nike shirts?
I understand what you’re saying OP, you keep fighting the good fight <3
Governments?
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 41 minutes ago
I mean those types of shirts are cheap af compared to stuff you’d get at a nice men’s clothing store…