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Yeah I think it's just not the right product for you. Different people have different price sensitivities, both overall and relative across product categories. I only buy store brand orange juice because Simply Orange® or whatever isn't worth the price to me, but other people love it. Meanwhile I used to buy $80 bottles of scotch (before I quit drinking) and I spent $1200 on an office chair 20 years ago and paid to have it repaired when it ultimately broke because I don't want any other chair. I have the SecretLab Magnus desk with some magnetic cable management accessories and LMG's pricing seems at least competitive with, if not better than SecretLab's: https://secretlab.co/products/cable-management-bundle?sku=Mag-CblBdl-Stealth.. $50 for the equivalent of 4 larges, 3 smalls, and some cable ties. And I bought it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's a premium product. If it's not worth it to you, you're not wrong. But people who feel it is worth it to them aren't wrong either. All that said, I sympathize with the sense of disappointment you're feeling to discover yourself priced out of a product you were excited about.

Stealth hoodie was about 50% off for a few hours but I guess both of us missed it. That's what I wanted, too.

Yeah the shipping is brutal. Whether sales tax applies to shipping varies by locality/tax jurisdiction. It can sometimes even depend on both where the product is coming from and where it is going to. It gets even worse than that.. in the USA it can depend on which states the retailer has employees in. Online retailers generally use third party services to calculate sales tax because it's so complicated, and there can even be discrepancies between how to services calculate sales tax for the same order. At least that was my experience when I worked on a shopping cart system for an online retailer in 2015-2016. They had a completely different system for order fulfillment vs the online shopping cart, and their in-house fulfillment system calculated sales tax more accurately than the online service the shopping cart used, and almost always higher because it was accounting for county-level and regional tax jurisdictions that the online service was missing. The fulfillment system operated on some ancient IBM system that didn't really know how to talk to the internet, so the shopping cart using it for sales tax calc at checkout was a non-starter. Anyway I assume Shopify is calculating LTTStore's sales tax based on their business and the customer's shipping or billing address, and helps them with the process of actually paying those taxes to all the different municipalities that collected it. Sales tax is soooo much worse than time zones and daylight savings... it's hilarious.

The "Lime Day Sale" notification emails are a separate signup because it's a bunch of sale emails in a row and they didn't want to spam the newsletter subscribers.

Is the deal gone? I didn't notice the email until 5 hours later. Stealth Hoodie Pro shows in stock but $69.99 even after I add to cart. Short Circuit hoodie deal is still up, since ~13 hours ago..

Does anyone know what the music is in the background after the ~12 minute mark? Checked video description.. did my best to search the YT comments but with >5000 comments and no search feature it's tough. I did find 3 other people in the comments asking.. no answers

We may reaching a point where anti-virus is considered harmful: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/antivirus-is-bad/ The low-level system access AV software requires to do its job introduces its own vector of attack. AV software does not catch all malware attacks. As just one example, WannaCry got past AV software (links to more info in the accepted answer on that page). AV software does not protect against other types of attacks, e.g. phishing. Windows Defender is Pretty Good™, and Microsoft already has low-level access to the system. I think Defender is still worth running, but I don't recommend any other antivirus programs. The most important defensive measures you can take are: exercise judgment and critical thinking in the sites you browse and software you run, take backups of your system and files, and apply the latest system updates (which is pretty automatic these days). There are non-free services like Backblaze and Carbonite that make backups automatic. Another (more advanced) defensive technique is to do anything you're unsure about in a virtual machine; VirtualBox is free and Pretty Good™.

I don't see using a VPN and Tor as an either/or thing. Using Tor automatically raises the level of scrutiny all of your traffic receives. While it's not clear what sites you're visiting via Tor, your IP address is clearly using Tor. In a world where everyone uses postcards, an envelope is suspicious. I have heard that 3-letter agencies keep track of who uses Tor. I can certainly imagine ISPs taking note. I personally only use Tor over a VPN to add one step of ambiguity to my Tor traffic. There are downsides to using Tor. The latency is very high. Downloading large files over Tor is discouraged (and might arguably be abusive to the resources provided to/by the Tor network for free). You already pointed out that it's inadvisable to route traffic over Tor which can be used to de-anonymize you in other ways. There are also network-region side-effects; I once tried to use Google over Tor and kept getting redirected to some euro version of Google that wasn't useful for me. I haven't (yet) decided to route 100% of my traffic over a VPN, so I use all 3 types: vanilla, VPN, and VPN+Tor (but I do not use Tor sans VPN).