I would add that something like this often happens outside online shops for devices and more generally house appliances.
My theory is that many people are "proud" to have bought something, either for its novelty or because they managed to get the whatever for a lowish price/discount, or - on the opposite - because they already spent an awful amount of money so it must be exceptional, or because they read somewhere that the thing is exceptionally good.
Short of the thing completely not working, they are (in good faith) convinced that they got the best and talk endlessly on how good it is, and how nothing else is as good.
Once upon a time it was typical of many self-appointed Hi-Fi experts but in more recent years I have seen the same behaviour in many other cases, from vacuum cleaners to Tv's.
My theory is that many people are "proud" to have bought something, either for its novelty or because they managed to get the whatever for a lowish price/discount, or - on the opposite - because they already spent an awful amount of money so it must be exceptional, or because they read somewhere that the thing is exceptionally good.
Short of the thing completely not working, they are (in good faith) convinced that they got the best and talk endlessly on how good it is, and how nothing else is as good.
Once upon a time it was typical of many self-appointed Hi-Fi experts but in more recent years I have seen the same behaviour in many other cases, from vacuum cleaners to Tv's.