I was warned that Yelp has that same problem. 1) I've been told eHam is
the same, I've never posted a review as a result. 2) About all the
Yelp reviews seem to be good for is identifying that a business is closed.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 3/13/2021 11:58 AM, Grant Youngman wrote:
At least they just grumbled about your review.
I once posted to a reflector about (what was well known) buggy control firmware in a
(non-Elecraft) radio. (The “radio" part of the radio was fine, but sometimes
you never knew what pressing a front panel button would break next). I almost
immediately received a cease and desist letter via emai from the developer of said
firmware, threatening a lawsuit based on potential loss of livelihood and reputation
if I didn’t make a retraction. I made a snark-laden public retraction on the
reflector, which I’d guess was lawsuit worthy in itself. But I guess that was
enough. I never heard from this person again.
I eventually just got rid of the radios and moved on …. life is too short.
Grant NQ5T
On Mar 13, 2021, at 1:52 PM, Wes <wes_n...@triconet.org> wrote:
I bought a European made tri-band Yagi antenna from a friend who had never
installed it. (I won't mention the manufacturer) It was still in the unopened
box after sitting in my friend's garage for some time. The pieces of tubing
were shipped inside each other (graduated metric sizes have a lot of clearance
between sizes) and when I extracted them all I found two pieces for the same
element were very corroded. I used my household lye/vinegar method to clean
them up and assembled the antenna. It worked fine and I decided to write an
eHam review.
Based on the QC issue I rated it a four stars. I almost immediately got an
email from the company in which I was accused of improperly storing the antenna
and all sorts of other things. It was also claimed that anything less that
five stars would ruin their business, etc. I sent photos of the tubing and
heard back that this was impossible, it's never happened before and so on and
so forth. I got so much grief about this that I wrote the reviews people at
eHam and asked them to pull my review, which they did.
Wes N7WS
On 3/13/2021 10:37 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
I agree that a preponderance of 5 ratings are from people congratulating
themselves on their choice, and the text often goes like
"this is a fine rig" or "met all my expectations."
And out of roughly 2,200 eHam ratings I once profiled just for grins, almost
all of the ratings of 1 star or 2 stars were for service or support issues ...
which tells you nothing about the rig itself.
I also agree about the need to look for trends in the comments to find any
worthwhile insight ... which is why the NCJ article that used only the summary
average ratings is borderline useless to me.
73,
Dave AB7E
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