Members Alchemist Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 Just thought I would bring this up because theres been talk about reviews not being accepted lately. I've had this happen a few times, I gave less than stellar reviews, without resorting to profanity, on certain pedals. The last one being the Boss MD-2. Anyways, at the end of my review, I recommended people look at another high gain pedal in the same price range, however this was not a product that MF carried. There are some less than stellar reviews on there, but to me it seems most of them glorify the product they sell. Regardless, I just found this disturbing as many people are getting grosly misinformed about products when they only read reviews that glorify said products. Was my review not accepted because it did not favour said product, or because I advised the purchase of a product they didnt carry? Has this happened to anybody else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fiverz Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 I recently posted reviews for a blackout tele and MF's own guitar case (both of which were positives, all 8s and 9s). Neither of them showed up at all. They were both posted over 2 weeks ago. Something's going on there but I don't know if it is entirely just censorship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saxcop Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 HC would not post my review and even said so. They allow one review of all 10s on Sanatoga's????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ExtraGum Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 Yeah, I don't think HC has EVER posted all reviews either. THe reviews here are overwhelmingly 9-10s on every product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Axeslinger Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 I posted a review of the Korg AX3000G that was less than complimentary... It would have been the first review of that particular POS,eeeerrrrrr,, product... Its been 3 weeks. No sign of it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fiverz Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 Btw I was referring to reviews I had posted on MF (as the thread title suggests), not HC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I'm A Coal Man Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 Duh? cause then nobody will buy the crap they have to get rid of to make room for the stuff we want! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TaZMaNiO Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 musiciansfriend wont post bad reviews? Nope, that's been my experience as well...posted a review on a Schechter MF LE C-1 that told it like it was - The guitar was tinny cause the tonewood stank.They never posted it, but it was posted on HC.Of course that was before HC was bought by MF...I did have another review nixxed by MF, although they posted to glowing reviews I made about some other stuff Me thinks HC is going the same way now from all appearances, won't be long before this place is a total noob-fest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members batotman Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 They sure allow bad reviews for products on the MF site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alchemist Posted October 10, 2005 Author Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 Originally posted by TaZMaNiO Nope, that's been my experience as well...posted a review on a Schechter MF LE C-1 that told it like it was - The guitar was tinny cause the tonewood stank. They never posted it, but it was posted on HC. Of course that was before HC was bought by MF... I did have another review nixxed by MF, although they posted to glowing reviews I made about some other stuff Me thinks HC is going the same way now from all appearances, won't be long before this place is a total noob-fest. haha yes, my glowing reviews seemed to sneak in there just fine, hours after I wrote them..... very interesting lol:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Silent Heart Posted October 10, 2005 Members Share Posted October 10, 2005 Originally posted by ExtraGum Yeah, I don't think HC has EVER posted all reviews either. THe reviews here are overwhelmingly 9-10s on every product. I think that has more to do with the fact that people tend to review products they like and/or that most people don't have experience with a wide variety of similar products. It would be interesting to see whether the scores assigned are uniformly distributed, but that's almost certainly not the case i.e., there's probably way more 10s and 9s than say, 3s and 4s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TaZMaNiO Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 Originally posted by Alchemist haha yes, my glowing reviews seemed to sneak in there just fine, hours after I wrote them..... very interesting lol:) You noticed that too?!? Of course, we know what's really going on, don't we Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members do art Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 I think we should stop writing reviews over there. But then again we might have to stop writing reviews here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gaf-Yag-A-Ton Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 I think you guys are just paranoid. My glowing review of a Vanous Evolution preamp never got posted. And my evil malicious predatory but honest review of a certain product I won't mention.......got posted. I think they are just overwhelmed with submissions and some are lost as a result. (just a guess. I don't work here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Highway_61 Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 When I was trying to figure out what Squier Strat I wanted as my second purchase during last month's Squier-Thon, I read a lot of reviews on MF, not HC, that were extremely negative, so if they're ensoring anything over there, they sure are doing a bad job of it. I would imagine that both sites do their best to exclude reviews that are littered with profanity or are simply idiotic (like many HC reviews are), like the ones that go, "This guitar isn't any effen good. I have to tune the E string every week." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darkstorm Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 I've seen bad reviews of products both on MF website and HC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheDarxide Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 I don't think there's a grand conspiracy, reviews probably don't get posted because someone hasn't approved it yet. There are some really nasty reviews in that database, take a look at the Danelectro mini's for a start. While I don't believe they should be censored, it would be nice if the all 1 reviews didn't get put in, because they generally consist of "this is {censored}" rather than a constructive criticism of the product in question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aerorockjax Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 Since MF owns HC, can they take parts of peoples posts on the message boards and in the review databases and use in advertisements in their catalog and on their site? MF advertisement: Harmony central review:"Get this pedal... a great dirt pedal!"Actual post : Get this pedal if you like harsh tone, didital fizziness, and don't care about good tone. If you want a good distortion pedal, get a rat which is a great dirt pedal! ------------MF advertisement: Harmony central review:"I'm amazed...good tone!Actual post : I amazed that a company would build such an unreliable piece of {censored}! One step on it and the plastic casing breaks, definatly not built for live use. When does work it messes up your good tone! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members M-1 Fan Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 Here's a review for ya; As long as Musician's Friend continues to use Fedex as one of their carrier options, I will do all of my $5,000+ per year gear purchase business with either Zzounds, Music 123, or American Musical Supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BootRoots Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 all the MF conspiracy talk is such a bunch of crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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