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consumer reports?
by joewhale 3y ago
consumer reports?
- ordx 3y agopaywalled
- bloopernova 3y agoTesting products costs a lot of money.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoEspecially expensive physical products that you want to review without bias.
- nosecreek 3y agoI know it doesn’t solve the problem for everyone, but many public libraries offer free access to Consumer Reports.
- WallyN 3y agoThey do first party reviews though. That's a bit different i'd think.
- riehwvfbk 3y agoThey only review the initial experience with the product. If a car has an engine that explodes in a few years, or an electronic device loses updates in a year from purchase and turns into a brick - CR will not capture this.
- supportengineer 3y agoThat's not exactly accurate. Have you seen the pages and pages of red and black circles? They track the reliability of vehicles over time (5-10 years) broken down by problem area (transmission, electrical, etc). That's where the real value is.
- themaninthedark 3y agoWhat do you mean? I have been a member for a number of years and they ask me either yearly or semi-yearly if I still own the product, if I would still recommend it and about any new major purchases. Products I have been asked about more than once: Heat Pumps Cars TVs
- riehwvfbk 3y agoHuh, happy to be proved wrong. I guess I had conflated CR with JD Power.