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"Vinylanach" <vinylanach@aol.com> wrote in message
"bassett" <bass...@bassettskennel.com.au> wrote:

>
> ***So if I'm wrong, ?When was the last time you wrote the truth, and said
> the item up for review was a pile of over priced junk, ?and there full 
> page
> advert on the next page did not influance your ?judgement.
>
> ***And every reviewers the same, regardless of the product. They simply
> write what the advertiser likes to hear, and the day a review writes the
> truth, is the day the adveriser withdrews his fat advertiseing fee's and 
> the
> magazine closes ?it's doors..
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bassett

If you look at the facts, you'll see that there is no correlation
between our reviews and our advertisers.  We've given bad reviews to
products from our advertisers,

 *** Name the magazine and the dates of the BAD reviews,  or supply a link, 
where you state
there simply not worth the price asked.Or are a bad investment and not up to 
the job.

 and good reviews to products from companies who have flat out told us
 that they will never advertise with us.  We're the ones who went against
 the grain and gave a lukewarm review to a $60,000 turntable.

***Define lukewarm.  Unfortunately, the price of something has no relevance 
to the
 quality of the product.  Just look at some of the cheap and plain nasty 
cars that are imported,
 Which strangly enough, are labelled  "European Excellence"  Where in fact 
the truth is, there just
 common, domestic  production runs, or Jo Average  family hacks, in there 
country of origan

It's nice to wander around the Internet, talking about what you THINK
you know. It's quite another to actual observe the facts and make
comments based on THAT.  Sadly, this is becoming the norm.

Boon

*** It's also nice to openly expose shonks and con-men.  And the old mith of 
something being  far superier to something which is much cheaper is long 
gone.  As for your 60 grand turntable,  Does that quantify the fact that 
it's  60 times better then a turntable  worth  a grand.  No of cause it 
doesn't. it just means it's imported, with a fancy unpronounceable name. 
And the chances are the importer  has tripled the retail price.  for proof 
of that, consider the price of  products in world markets like Hong Kong and 
Dubai.  Now look at the same price  here.
Of cause you will  wail about  service and warrenties, But if the thing is 
so bloody wonderful  why would you want a warrenty  or service in the first 
place.

*** As for reviews in magazines.  Take an old cornflakes box down to some 
magazine chains, Give them a 100 grand  for advertising, and they will make 
your cornflakes box product of the year.
 Advertiseing can and does make or brake a product, and also the way the 
advertising is marketed and promottion of the product.  Any product. So 
anyone writing a review , dare not say anything derogatory for fear of 
loosing the advertising dollar.   For evidence of this just consider Helcro, 
and the large amounts of cash they invested with Stereophile magazine  some 
years ago.
                                                                             
               bassett