So I bought a six pack of socks off Amazon once. Seemed like a low risk purchase. They arrived looking like any other sock. New packaging, didn't see anything wrong with it. Socks looked new.

They didn't feel new. You know that new sock feel you only get fresh from the package, before they've been washed? They didn't have that.

I don't know if these were factory reject socks that failed QC after the fabric softener ran out or some sort of counterfeit sock or just some sort of error that could happen anywhere, but I will never forget my Amazon marketplace betrayal.