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This months LRO
littlepow:
I'm sure I could waste a couple of pages about how I travelled down some motorway to get free parts from manufactures. (But only mention the part and the company in a single short paragraph!)
Disco Matt:
--- Quote from: Xtremeteam on August 22, 2010, 20:13:01 ---disco matt, where abouts in mid wales are you from?
--- End quote ---
I'm near Llandrindod Wells
kizz81:
i work for two 4x4 companies and with the bigger one i work for lro ring up all the time asking for free items to run a test on :shock:
Disco Matt:
Thing is, that's normal behaviour in the motoring press. They expect a freebie to review in return for which they'll give the product exposure, a recommendation, and they'll include details of where to buy one from in the piece.
As a result, I often wonder how impartial reviews really are. Are you really going to rubbish something that you've been given on the understanding that you can keep it? I know other hobbies have magazines which never give a bad review to anything, presumably because it would upset their main advertisers. They'll even give a product a great review, then when an upgraded version appears a year or two later they'll say "a huge improvement on the many flaws of the previous one"!
V8MoneyPit:
There was a review in a recent Mini magazine of upholstery cleaning products. One of the products was reviewed as 'total rubbish, don't buy it'... which was quite refreshing!
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