Trawling Socks

 Being in the sock business, making or sourcing our stock. I often trawl the net for socks. Checking out the competition and finding great socks to sell on our website. I found something interesting and checked out the feedback as usual and found this.

mmm.......someones a bit snippy.

Spam or is it?

With winter here we've been flat out making socks. As usual our customers are often a source of delight. There are some great people out there. Business through our new website has been very encouraging, but there is a down side - we are getting a lot more spam and unwelcome emails. Yin/yang, I guess. Some have a certain quality about them. Here's a couple I have received lately, as they came......



I really liked your produktsiya.V our area so do not prodayut.Ya would like what would you send me free samples for tests, and, if I like it I will recommend you to our shop!  Mailing address in Russia also supplied.


I think not.

And this one speaks (screams) for itself


Just when I thought I'd get through the bloody day without somebody once again kicking me in the guts!!! WHAMMO !!!! thanks for nothing.

After listening to this fool rabbitting on for 10 mins about how bloody fantastic these mongrel socks were, I thought I'd check them out on the net...YOU LOST ME COMPLETLY WHEN IT CAME TO THE PART OF THE POSSUM SLAUGHTER...CHRIST ALLMIGHTY WHAT NEXT???????????? WHERE THE HELL DOES THE HUMAN RACE GET OFF THINKING IT CAN KILL ANYTHING THAT THEY DEEM A PEST TO END THEIR OWN SELFISH MEANS...IF THEY ARE EATING THE NATIVE VEGETATION...PLANT MORE BLOODY TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!DON'T WIPE THE POSSUMS OFF THE FACE OF THE PLANET, JUST TO MAKE FREAKING SOCKS FOR THE SPECIES THAT'S ALREADY GOT MORE LUXURIES THAN THEY DESERVE.BUT IT'S JUST TYPICAL ISN'T IT? IF IT MOVES .....KILL IT !! SHOVE YOUR BLOODY SOCKS WHERE THE SUN DOES NOT & WILL NOT EVER SHINE...

Nothing I can say to that.

An this last one below, some one with too much time on their hands, just like me -  noting my lengthy response. One I was rather proud of.

Dear Mongrel Socks, 

In your professional opinion, where do all the missing left socks disappear to?

Best wishes, 


Hi Alastair,
I have over the years giving your question some thought - I'm a conspiracy theorist.
I think the big multi national hosiery companies know that thier sales increase when socks go astray long before being worn out so....... to encourage a natural separation of socks they knit in to the sock positve magnetised threads that will ensure the law of physics will not allow any pair to come together once they have been taken out of thier wrapping. It should be noted our socks do not feeture this addition and as such our buyers have a far greater chance of simply wearing our socks out rather than losing them. I must remember to note this on our web site as a key feeture.
Have a good day!
Cheers,
Helen.
ps there is such a thing as sock clips attached before washing to keep them together, might be worth a try for you. Sorry we don't sell them but they're online somewhere.


mmm?

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I'm still busy taking sock photo's-it's driving me loopy! Our pure wool Mongrel Socks come in a lot of different colour's, and getting shots that show clearly the variation is proving difficult-even with my home made light box. I'm so glad I didn't go and buy one retail as I really haven't been happy with the "true" colour I'm getting. On a pure white back ground the colours look so washed out-not at all like the vibrant colour mixes they are. I know I'm probably doing something technically wrong but I've gone back to natural sunlight and taken a few shot's with a garden greenery background, I don't know why, but they just look better to me, so I'm going to post a couple here to have a look how'll they'll appear on screen. I know the back ground is not how other product's are presented online-and all the experts recommend plain white backgrounds for product shots, but I am leaning toward this greenery background for our soon to be renewed web site.

Snap happy! Argh!

Busy week here at the home of Mongrel Socks. Aside from all the usual sock making endeavours, I'm busy getting shots together for our web site update. All is not smooth sailing, who would have thought it could be so hard to take a good photo of socks. I now have a new respect for photographers, where as once upon a time, I ignorantly thought, taking photo's must be one of the worlds easiest job's, in deed it is not! I've done a lot of reading on the net about taking a good product shot, that's been very helpful. Almost all the articles I read mentioned the use of a "soft box", which I had absolutely no idea of what it actually was or where I could get one from. None of the local photo supplier's had one in stock. Lucky for me my persistant trawling of the web paid off when I found an article (site) that not only told me all about how and why's of soft boxes but also showed me how to make one! Yipee! Which I have quite proudly just finished making, I just need to get some big thumping light's and I'll be in business. Speaking of which, business that is, I better get back to something more constructive than now.