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Could a marketplace that strips away every adjective and marketing claim actually succeed? Daniel from technical marketing poses a provocative question: what if a B2C shopping platform insisted on purely factual, parametric product descriptions — no "cutting edge," no "best-in-class" — and acted as linguistic middleware to translate seller claims into spec sheets? We dig into why Digikey and Mouser succeed for engineers but the same model fails for toasters. From Wirecutter and Consumer Reports to the cautionary tale of GoodGuide, we examine the structural, economic, and psychological barriers to a de-marketed marketplace. Plus, the uncomfortable truth from consumer psychology: most people buy based on emotion and rationalize later. Episode #027646 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/027646