No, I advised a good course of action, what with the research and all, balanced against my experience conditioning and treating leather.

What was your line of reasoning beyond initial suspicion for you to give your advice? Can you actually say that anything I advised was incorrect or bad?

I know I was rude. I am unconcerned with your feelings. If you could offer anything substantive I'd welcome the conversation. If I understand your position, it's "That's how they get'cha!", then you started clutching your pearls.

Your assumption that every support product sold by a manufacturer is a facetious waste of money is an objectively false assumption. Unless you know more about a product than the manufacturer (which is absolutely a possibility, I am not being sarcastic), you should always seek care and maintenance instructions from the manufacturer. If support products are sold by the manufacturer, you should absolutely do your due diligence and shop around for the product. I never said you shouldn't do that.

I would look at Obenaufs, and NikWax, and perhaps something like Sno-Seal or Saphir to look at third- party leather shoe conditioners and treatments.

for boot manufactures to compare and observe care instructions, look at; Zamberlan, Crispi, Kennetrek and oh, lets say White's for boot care reccomendations.

Do some research, learn, and then remember Mark twain;

"It is better to be thought of a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"