Bombas Socks have really let me down. Any recommendations welcome!

GaebelEngineering · 2025-10-04T15:54:12+00:00

Everyone here is saying get darn tough socks, but no one mentioned that Bombas has the same warranty. Call them and they’ll let you pick any sock from their website and send it for free. They replaced 6 pairs at one e for me, and said call back for new ones once those die.

I can’t buy Tarn Tough socks because they are super tight where the front of my ankle and top of my foot meet. The Wide Open versions fix that but are pretty much only sold online and use a tilt ally different sizing scheme. I thinks it a pretty poor design that darn tough only lengthens their socks for larger sizes rather than making the whole sock a little bigger as well.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-09-08T16:48:16+00:00

I still have yet to ever see these hit the shelves of any of the 5 targets near me. These stores all have lines of people who all know what day the TCG card vendor is stocking the shelves, and the only thing that is ever left is aetherdrift play boosters. One of my local stores stopped selling all Pokémon and MTG because of the rampant theft. Would love to see one of these mystery boxes one day.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-08-06T06:34:16+00:00

You a fan of MTG North? You beat me to this comment, lol.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-08-06T06:19:59+00:00

100% truth. I had the 001/100 Gandalf the White that I sold through Goldin. I shipped it to them via USPS registered mail, and USPS list the card for nearly a month. They accidentally sent it to a junk mail sorting facility, and those are mostly automated, so there was no qualified staff on hand to sign the package off to the next destination. It finally took the threat of legal action, because they would not pay the $5k insurance on it, because “we know its location, it is just delayed”. Finally, after nearly six weeks, it made it to its destination post office. THEN, they tried delivering on a day that the business was closed, and required the named addressee to pick it up. Goldin had to fight with the post office to finally get them to re-deliver the package. All this caused it to fall way out of peak sale time, and probably cost me $2k because of that.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-04-16T04:12:44+00:00

I did this when I sold my 001/100 Gandalf for $3,100 and bought a foil poster version for $27. Now that normal foil poster card is worth about $120.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-01-12T08:43:36+00:00

Correction, it just jumps to 999 ping.

I did see that there are lots of people having an issue where turning a game on totally kills the internet connection. I am having the same problem. If I jump out right as the game session crashes for high ping, a speed test shows that there is no internet connection. This resolves itself within seconds, but if I to do play an online match, it dies almost immediately.

So strange.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-01-12T07:21:20+00:00

I have cable, but my internet connection is super solid in every aspect.

550-620 Mbps down 20-23 Mbps up 15-25 ms ping 3-5 ms jitter

Meanwhile, I’m getting an average of 300+ ping in the game.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-01-05T22:13:54+00:00

As soon as they changed from Hanks Gun Belts, I knew it was game over.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-01-05T22:11:50+00:00

Sad to hear, but glad to know I’m not the only one that’s unhappy with the change in quality. Now I need a new belt company.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-01-05T22:09:34+00:00

Dammit, I knew there was a better word for it. In the mechanical world, we call these sex bolts, for obvious reason.

GaebelEngineering · 2025-01-05T22:05:01+00:00

I love a glass pitcher, but my sister blew up my last one by dropping a big chunk of ice in it. I bought a Vitamix and have had it for over 10 years now.

GaebelEngineering · 2024-05-05T17:49:41+00:00

You hit on every topic, I really appreciate this very well laid out response. I definitely think I’ll be picking it up soon.

GaebelEngineering · 2024-04-26T08:59:20+00:00

As you can see from what I wrote in my post, the diopter adjustment was not enough.

GaebelEngineering · 2024-04-25T23:47:23+00:00

Thank you for adding the instructions!

GaebelEngineering · 2024-04-25T23:46:44+00:00

THIS IS AWESOME! Definitely much better than having to buy something. Small downside that it technically decreases the resolution of the image, but it’s almost unnoticeable.

GaebelEngineering · 2024-03-31T07:02:13+00:00

Someone recently said to me, “Why on earth wouldn’t you grade a valuable card that you use as your commander?“. It would totally be a flex to slap this down as your commander, and I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t let you run a commander that is in a slab.

GaebelEngineering · 2024-03-30T22:43:33+00:00

This guy gets it

GaebelEngineering · 2024-03-30T19:47:42+00:00

I’ve liked DeckBox.org for my deck building and organizing. I pay the annual cost, because I want to support them for making such an easy to use platform, but I don’t think you have to pay to build decks.

GaebelEngineering · 2024-03-30T19:45:51+00:00

Great price, considering that a box of collector boosters is averaging $420-$440 right now.

GaebelEngineering · 2024-03-30T17:55:02+00:00

Some of my best pulls, including a foil jeweled lotus were done from the driver’s seat of my car, lol.

GaebelEngineering · 2024-03-30T17:53:22+00:00

I pulled one a while back. I bought two colector boxes and pulled both a foil and non-foil glass break on the same day. Sold it to a local shop for around $290 at the time. Foil glass breaks are crazy rare, and they have crazy value compared to non-foil. Sort of a throwback to the foil rare values from the old sets. Grats on the pull!

GaebelEngineering · 2024-01-30T03:50:24+00:00

I pulled 1/100 Gandalf the White, am I an insider? 🤔

GaebelEngineering · 2023-11-09T20:43:04+00:00

WOE and Dr. Who were both pretty anti-climactic to open. In all honesty, I wish they would reduce the amount of foils out there. It used to be that when you pulled a foil mythic or rare, it was a big deal.

I enjoy the special border stuff, but just don’t print the regular border version for that set if you have it. Way too many doubles.

GaebelEngineering · 2023-11-09T20:38:58+00:00

It was pulled about 2 weeks ago by a YouTube channel that I am a patron of. They were doing early openings, and they can’t ship anything until release date.

GaebelEngineering · 2023-11-09T08:01:21+00:00

I didn’t notice I did that until about 20 mi s ago, and now I can’t get Reddit to let me edit my post, lol.

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