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In Reply to: Re: Dudley REALLY doesn't like HP posted by JimL on February 24, 2007 at 09:43:46:
<< the equivalent of a shakedown >>This is just plain wrong. For a decade or two, HP was extremely influential. Manufacturers were clamoring for his attention, hoping to get a positive review in TAS. He probably had a half-dozen callers each week.
Now, it so happens that HP enjoys the finer things in life, such as good music and a good meal. It's preposterous to think that he should have to treat visiting manufacturers to dinner several times a week. So if they want to go out, they get to pay.
I took HP out to dinner perhaps a half a dozen times in my life. He knows some great restaurants, and we had some fantastic meals together. Even with the liquor added in (he and I are both port fanatics), I don't think I ever spent more than $200.
And if I was stupid enough to think it was buying me some good exposure in the magazine, I got what I deserved -- nothing.
Go ahead and look in all the back issues you want. HP gave the original Avalon Ascent a nice review back around 1989. MK (who visits these forums, but whom I have never even met) gave the Ayre V-3 a nice review around 1996.
And that's it -- nothing more, nada, zip.
If a manufacturer is stupid enough to think that buying HP dinner is going to make a difference in what he writes about, he is probably stupid enough to claim he was "shaken down".
So your posting is just plain wrong. HP is a fascinating guy, extremely perceptive, unbelievably entertaining, and full of integrity.
His main failing was that he has no idea how to run a successful business.
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Follow Ups
- Re: "the equivalent of a shakedown" - Charles Hansen 12:36:00 02/25/07 (2)
- That's a damn poor ROI -- so how good are *you* at running a successful business? ;-) nt - clarkjohnsen 09:54:25 02/26/07 (0)
- Eggs Ackley...(nt) - mkuller 13:55:20 02/25/07 (0)
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