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This is all a massive deflection. Why is CR okay to make recommendations in an "area they're not good at"? Even the most generous interpretations are more dam
by willis936 5y ago
This is all a massive deflection. Why is CR okay to make recommendations in an "area they're not good at"? Even the most generous interpretations are more damning than your claims.
- impalallama 5y agoBecause thats a service not a product. I go to CR for reviews on what the best mattress is, moving companies is not something I would go to them for so that doesn't concern me. Its like saying AAA isn't worth the money because you didn't like the hotel they gave you a discount on.
- willis936 5y agoRight except AAA's service is not providing opinions on the quality of anything, goods or services. Lying about the quality of a good or service when that is your business, potentially with kickbacks, is not really a defensible position. "It's okay because I don't expect their opinion to be good in this one area" doesn't negate CR providing that opinion.
- mlyle 5y agoNo one can find anything where Consumer Reports has rated moving services. It's likely the grandparent confused them with BBB, which is totally pay-to-play. And--- I appreciate Consumer Reports' accuracy, but I doubt that they are 100% accurate. There are probably recommendation sets that end up as garbage for one reason or another (incorrect weighting for my use case, statistical noise, evolution in products since survey experiences, etc). There's also times where I have personal expertise or preferences that outweigh CR's rankings. CR rates computers, after all, and I would probably not weigh them very heavily in my choice.
- rsj_hn 5y agoAs a long time CR subscriber, agree absolutely. This stuff is hard and clean data sets are nonexistent. I still recommend to my friends to subscribe to CR as independent reviews are important (and worth paying for).
- kube-system 5y ago> Right except AAA's service is not providing opinions on the quality of anything, goods or services. AAA guidebooks do exactly this. I remember using them to pick hotels in the 90s.
- petejodo 5y agoI think OP was asking whether they were confusing CR for the Better Business Bureau because moving services does not seem to be something CR would review
- cauthon 5y agoBut CR did review them, so why can't someone complain that CR recommended a bad service
- mlyle 5y agoI don't see any evidence of this. The most likely scenario is the original complaint confused BBB (totally pay-to-play, scam) with CR. CR doesn't review this category and a search of past CR review categories doesn't yield moving services. In general, they don't review anything regional.
- jamiek88 5y agoCR do not review moving companies. They have articles on how to avoid dodgy ones but make no recommendations.
- cush 5y agoYou deflected the deflection.
- willis936 5y agoWhich is called a course correction.
- jamiek88 5y agoExcept you are wrong. CR do not and have never recommended moving firms. They in fact have articles on how to avoid being scammed by firms and best practices but make no recommendations. I think the burden here is on you or others making this claim to link some evidence.
- Breza 5y agoI wonder why people are digging in on the accusation that CR has provided inaccurate ratings of moving companies. Very easy to disprove.
- cush 5y agoYou deflected the deflected deflection.