In Reply to: "If it is genuinely bad, there simply should be no review at all. " posted by volunteer on June 24, 2012 at 06:14:01:
- Those that are untainted by politics we are unaware of, personal issues of the reviewer (doesn't personally like someone at the manufacturer for example), misuse of the product, tampering, etc.
I had a Stereophile reviewer (Steven Stone) pan one of our preamps after he swapped junkbox tubes into the preamp. The tubes were so bad that they would not even read on a tube tester. The resulting bad press gave us 0 sales for 2 quarters. It was the direct result of tampering with the unit, but no-where in his comments did he say that he was basing the review on the performance of the unit with junk tubes. Do you think that was 'honest'?
The problem is that a bad review can occur for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with the how the product performs. I have now giving two examples in this thread.
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Follow Ups
- Yes- we want honest reviews... - Ralph 07:45:50 06/25/12 (16)
- RE: Yes- we want honest reviews... - Sstone8807@aol.com 08:03:32 08/22/14 (1)
- RE: Yes- we want honest reviews... - minimus 15:11:19 10/20/14 (0)
- He purchased the review sample !! - Shep 14:43:37 06/26/12 (2)
- RE: Yes, my memory is playing tricks... - Ralph 15:15:29 06/26/12 (1)
- Too Funny!!! nt - bjh 09:23:47 06/27/12 (0)
- Not sure I follow you here... - jamesgarvin 20:49:37 06/25/12 (2)
- Genuinely bad - Inmate51 23:26:21 06/25/12 (1)
- The problem here is that you have no good way to know - Ralph 10:03:04 06/26/12 (0)
- RE: Yes- we want honest reviews... - Linn 08:54:56 06/25/12 (1)
- RE: Yes- we want honest reviews... - Ralph 09:14:15 06/25/12 (0)
- Ralph, this statement is my only area of disagreement. - volunteer 08:19:22 06/25/12 (3)
- Yes, we may have to disagree on that - Ralph 09:29:19 06/25/12 (2)
- "I realized that bad reviews are often unethical," - volunteer 13:11:38 06/25/12 (1)
- RE: "I realized that bad reviews are often unethical," - Ralph 14:36:49 06/25/12 (0)
- RE: Yes- we want honest reviews... - rick_m 08:10:11 06/25/12 (1)
- RE: Yes- we want honest reviews... - Ralph 09:07:01 06/25/12 (0)