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In Reply to: RE: Hey Jerry S, how can you give a product a rave review, announce you bought it, then sell it 6 months later? posted by Rick W on December 20, 2016 at 13:36:29
-As a way of punishment. This happened about 14 years ago or so.
This is how it went down:
He bought a used kit version of one of our amps (for those that don't know, I'm associated with Atma-Sphere) which had been built up. It was fully optioned, but poorly assembled and no wonder that the original owner sold it.
He reviewed it as if it was fully-optioned and factory-assembled!! As a kit, it was a rat's nest inside and the poor construction and outright wiring errors was affecting its performance quite a bit! He gave it poor marks.
He sold it to a customer, who promptly contacted us and sent it to us for repair. That is how we found out this happened. When he sold it, he represented it as something it was not- an amp built by us. The buyer was pretty upset!
When we confronted him, he responded by rewriting a review of one of our preamps on his site, changing it from a good review to a poor one.
This is why I have come to regard bad reviews as unethical, on account of the fact that the reviewer (as JerryS did in this case) might have an agenda. He's been taking pot shots at us ever since.
IMO and IME, he is unethical and vindictive. In my view, this is a man who can't seem to admit when he's made a mistake. Its hard to imagine people take him seriously but many people today don't know this happened.
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that you're referring to?....
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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appears he's an aho.
Having known a couple of audio reviewers, I'm aware the first thing they have done when a component sounds bad is contact the company to validate whether or not there is a problem with the unit.
Reviewing a defective or poorly kit built example without communicating with the manufacturer benefits no one.
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