This feels similar to reading further product reviews or customer comments between the time of purchase payment and shipped delivery for an online shopping. Anyone else sometimes do this?
I just did this last night. I checked through different sites for reviews to make sure that the reviews on the company's site weren't skewed in any way. I'll probably look at more reviews tonight too.
Honestly, the position I prefer to be in. It confirms you know their taste.
NOW, you want a truly disturbing version of this? Try getting it right, only its the more expensive one, so she refuses to buy it or let you pay the difference, or even buy it for her! ... and with the way these sales and store-stock rotation work, its often not so easy as coming back next month, next week ... even the same day, to get it for whatever-next-holiday-that-probably-falls-too-late-in-the-season-anyway. Sneak a picture of the tag? Congratulations, its somehow out-of-stock or never sold on-line, nor in nearby stores.
People that are convinced they are going to be the next sales/shopping/couponing deity are the WORST to want good things for. Short route to fadish or gimped products that do not work as well as advertized, or in the case of things like Black Friday televisions, what you would otherwise get them if they would only let you when there's time to be certain.
Before you read too much into that last sentence, the minimum age of a TV or monitor in my house is ten years old, and the average close to 15. As a former professional PC, TV, Printer and Appliance repair man, that's one bite from this I managed to avoid while still letting it give me nightmares.
That's getting to be a very annoying and more common human trait these days ....
I have a question ... but I already know the answer ... give me a response so I can validate my feelings and feel better about myself OR disagree with me so that I can say you were wrong, correct you and make myself feel better about myself.
Agreed ... I just feel that it is more pronounced these days than it was in the past ... social media is like a collective amplifier of all our bad traits rolled into one