Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | Worthless trash... Consumer Reports consistently gets things horribly wrong. I remember once when they said RCA HDTVs (this was back in the day of analog HDTVs with connections not standardized) only had a "proprietary connector only used by RCA" - or something to that effect. They had a VGA input! (whereas most TVs had RCA components which did catch on to be fair, but VGA is hardly proprietary).
And many other downright idiotic things. Consumer reports is meaningless fluff written by experts who like to think they know something and sometimes like to slander companies just for fun.
Remember the Suzuki Samurai and how rollover prone it was? Well, if you do you remember a lie - Consumer Reports WANTED it to roll over and couldn't get it to on their test track. Editorial director Erwin Landau told their test track driver "if you can't find someone to roll this car, I will"
The car was fine, and Suzuki later got an undisclosed settlement for the slander surely not beginning to approach their lost business and reputation. |
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join:2000-05-11 | "meaningless fluff written by experts who like to think they know something and sometimes like to slander companies just for fun"
Very much like many of this website's commenter writers.
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said by Markie:Consumer Reports consistently gets things horribly wrong. I'd like to see your unedited tally of "things assessed" vs. "things gotten horribly wrong". They have made well-documented mistakes but if they consistently got things horribly wrong they would be out of business.
Maybe they could benefit from some competition in the subscriber-supported, no advertising product assessment niche, but since there are usually only one or two "best buys", and only one #1, it's fair to say most manufacturers and service providers wouldn't mind if Yonkers were wiped off the face of the earth.
Their weakness in things like triple plays and other regional services such as mobile phone, grocery stores, and restaurants is that they don't sample large enough clusters to get good consistent observations. That is more a function of trying to appeal to a national audience and having to decide what to spend money collecting. (And as somebody else already pointed out, at this point in history there are huge differences in installation crews, call center staff and probably even the quality of billing subroutines for different services.)
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