Why do people lie about tents?

It needs a conversion table for accuracy.
" I have owned countless tents".
No, you are on your third one.
The day after I bought it I set it up during a torrential rainstorm with 50 mile an hour wind and it remained dry as a bone ."
Okay...it rained that night with an occasional gust and it did not leak.
" This tent is bombproof."
His son tripped on the guyline while playing and it didn't rip the fabric.
" The fly can be made so taut that it sounds like a drum solo anytime I get hailed on."
It is suppose to be tight . and you have never camped through a hail storm.
Why do people use the same cliches and exaggerate ?
It kills me .

It's true stuff, I DID in fact hike twenty miles through the desert with wind gusts of fifty miles an hour and set up my tent, in a hailstorm to boot, followed by heavy snows that would have caused even the toughest to hide away. on top of all that I had to carry this stupid car door the whole way.... an..... oh well

did you wake up on the wrong side of bed today??? was this even worth your time typing? 'cause now that i think about it it wasnt worth my time reading...btw, i DID set up tents in torrential rainstorms and 50 mph wind-- it was during a microburst in the adirondack mountains-- if you dont know what that is look it up..

I m sorry but I dont concider a dome (tent) a tent at all..Wheres the canvas, wheres the peak, and they all leak! I hate waking up wet! every canvas tent I owned NEVER leaked!.What..what!..what..!

What are you rambling about????

to keep from saying spent the nite,in car,or packed up an went home an their friends went to wrong spot.. want to hear about ten "of snow after 80 degree day an sleepin under a collapsed tent in colorado..twenty ft wall tent blown all to peices,,returning to pad to find 3 late sleepers dead due to rain suffocated to death from covering dome with 1 1/2 mil plastic sealed to ground by rain,, or ,top an fly burned off by ash from fire next trip rain few hundred leaks//frosty new years water dripped all day from condensation thawing,, opening one up to find vines,mold an trash from neighbors potatoes lost on previous usage,i love tents

I'm not 100% sure where you are going with this.

I can say honestly that if a tent can fit two queen sized mattresses in it...it is NOT a 2-person tent. That's at least a 4-person tent, more likely a 6-person tent, designed to sleep 6 people in an odd arrangement.

I do agree that many 3-person tents only fit 2 people comfortably, but the designer didn't intend to have you put all your gear and space heaters, and air matresses in them. they are designed with the intent that only sleeping bags and small sleeping pads will be used. When you buy a tent, look at the spec sheet and see what the floor arrangement is. A canvas wall tent designed to be used with cots and hold equipment that is 6'x8' can hold 5 people on the ground, oddly arranged. Same dimensions...different use.

I have no clue what you mean by "it needs a conversion table." What? square feet to square centimeters? Why is that a marketing issue? I've sold tents for years and never said that to anyone.

"Countless Tents" is a hyperbole...big deal. I've owned about 8 myself, but have lost track of how many I've used in demos and in training sessions. in 20 years, one tends to forget that sort of thing. big Deal.

Where are you shopping for tents? Is this a reputable dealer or are you shopping at Dick's or Gander Mountain? "Bombproof" is gear-head slang. I can't see why a gear-head would lie or exaggerate a tent's quality. normally we tell you if it is junk or if it is good stuff.

Why do people lie about tents?