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A reviewer only gets free stuff if they review things positively. If you want to be able to give your honest opinion, you'll have to purchase the product yourse
by db48x 6y ago
A reviewer only gets free stuff if they review things positively. If you want to be able to give your honest opinion, you'll have to purchase the product yourself. Also, if you make a name for yourself as an honest reviewer then you'll probably have to start buying things through intermediaries.
As an aside, this is why nobody should ever trust a review where the reviewer got any form of consideration from the product's creator.
- Mediatec 6y agoI don’t have a problem with buying the product myself but going as far as cutting access to interviews, events and news is a problem and placed me at a disadvantage compared to others in the field. What’s done is done, I understand. But I didn’t do anything wrong beyond that. That said, I’m new to this and was wondering if this is common practice. I never knew this was an actual thing
- db48x 6y agoYep, it's an actual thing. Interviews, events, and travel to those events are all a form of consideration given to as a reward to favored reviewers. They're all given to reviewers specifically to give them an advantage over reviewers who are actually honest. If you want your own advantages, you'll have to create them yourself. I recommend looking at the business model of Consumer Reports; they're successful and have a good reputation for honesty. They sell subscriptions rather than advertising, so that they aren't beholden to advertisers either.