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 Subject:  Re: Comments about reviewsList thread.  
  
 Date:  Aug 23, 2002
 From:  Kurt Laughlin 
"Graeme" wrote in message

> > Either every Warriors/Custom Dioramics figure kit is of equal quality,
>
> That's a possibility. Or that figures of a lesser quality are not reviewed
> at all.

Ok, maybe you can tell us - has he given ANYTHING a bad review? What is his
is actual percentage? (This assumes you can still get on his site to count.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that everyone in this thread has been
purged.) If he has continued the trend from a year and a half ago, at best
it is like 99-to-1 "Highly Recommended". If it is true that he only posts
the reviews of good stuff, then that's worse in my mind. In essence he must
be saying to himself: "This kit blows, but to protect my gravy train I'll
just keep quiet about it and let the "little" people find out on their own."
Perhaps that's why there are so few reviews. . .

Looks like three possibilities to me:

1. Everything he reviews is actually very good to great.
2. Everything he reviews gets a very good to great review, regardless of
actual quality, accuracy, engineering, ease of assembly, or whatever.
3. He reviews everything but only posts the favorable-to-the-vendor reviews,
letting the regular users live by the motto "Caveat Emptor."

When I first saw the review section over there I immediately was taken by
the disgusting similarity to the old magazine "Scale Modeler" that was
filled with "reviews" that were 80% history of the aircraft, 20%
construction tales, and invariably lauded a "much anticipated",
"well-detailed", and "excellent" kit.

KL
 
Thread Listing 
  Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 17, 2002
. . . Re: Comments about reviews - Saul Garcia - Aug 17, 2002
. . . Re: Comments about reviews - MSW - Aug 18, 2002
. . . . . . Haha I can see I'm oot of review practice :) - MSW - Aug 18, 2002
. . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Ken Hartlen - Aug 18, 2002
. . . Re: Comments about reviews. - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 18, 2002
. . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews. - Andy Herbert - Aug 18, 2002
. . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews. - Ken Hartlen - Aug 18, 2002
. . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 19, 2002
. . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 19, 2002
. . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 20, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 20, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 20, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 21, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: banned in Canada. - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 21, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: banned in Canada. - Andy Herbert - Aug 21, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Steve Frost - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Paul Roberts - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Warrink - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Tim Streeter - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 27, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Paul Roberts - Aug 27, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 27, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Did you try? - Peter Ong - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Likely not related to anything that you said (did) - Mati Raudsepp - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Graeme - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Graeme - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Tim Streeter - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Graeme - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Tim Streeter - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Graeme - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 24, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Tim Streeter - Aug 24, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Graeme - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Steve Frost - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 23, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Graeme - Aug 23, 2002
. . . Re: Comments about reviews - Jerry Gustafson - Aug 19, 2002
. . . . . . Re: Comments about reviews - Andy Herbert - Aug 19, 2002
. . . It should be noted... - Peter Ong - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . Re: It should be noted... - Tim Streeter - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . Re: It should be noted... - Andy Herbert - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . Re: It should be noted... - Saul Garcia - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: It should be noted... - Andy Herbert - Aug 22, 2002
. . . . . . . . . Re: It should be noted... - Peter Ong - Aug 22, 2002
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