Ever notice that customer reviews at online retail stores are almost always favorable to the item in question? A few weeks ago, I bought two spindles of
15 Fujifilm dual layer dvds on sale for 60% of the regular price. When I went about trying to burn them, my DVD drive spat the disks out saying that they were incompatible. I did a little Googling on the DVD-Rs in question and saw that multiple forums had noted that the discs were highly incompatible with the majority of dual layer dvd-/+r drives out there. As I am in Canada (where stores seem to have a bigger fetish with returns than sales), I had no trouble returning the discs so that's not where I'm going with this. Being the good Samaritan that I am, when I returned home from returning the said items I submit user comments for the product on Futureshop's site warning people of the media's low compatibility. It's been a month and my comments are still not posted.
I just did Futureshop customers another favor by submitting comments on
an external hard drive that has been known to fail after several months of use. Whether my comment is added to Futureshop's collection of glowing reviews remains to be seen.
There's a pattern emerging here. Sales are often a way to get rid of bad products just like the daily special at your favorite restaurant is just a ploy to use ingredients that will soon expire. This is no brilliantly original epiphany on my part. It's just something we often overlook in our quest to find a good deal.
I just did Futureshop customers another favor by submitting comments on an external hard drive that has been known to fail after several months of use. Whether my comment is added to Futureshop's collection of glowing reviews remains to be seen.
