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My experinces with the business
By Liquid3D on 6/4/2007 2:41:35 PM , Rating: 2
As a voluntary reviewer I am un-paid as most reviewers are. And I can attest to this, even more nefarious then many companies are the website owners some of whom are outright con-men. I know of one particular circumstance where a website ownwer spends a great deal of their time befreinding Reps depriving other sites and hard waorking writers from getting hardware.

How do I know this, I wrote for a person such as this for a short time. Those who confronted him on his methods he tried to have black-listed. Thankfully some of the more professional Reps simply ignored his petty manipulation.

As far as black-listing it does happen and did to me for simply being honest, you would think it wasn't possible but theres a liminted number of companies and a limited number of samples and a limited amount of advertising dollars. And there are those site-owners in middle numbers who would do just about anything to anyone to get their share of the "pie."

For a budding reviewer it looks like this, you work for a site and are sent samples, often you can keep those samples, yet there's almost a stigma attched because your doing this. And re-selling the smaples is taboo? Unless your a very large site reviewers go un-paid and this i where a lot of sleazy activity takes place. Bheind the scenes stands the site-owner collecting ll the advertising dollars and weho knows what is said over the telephone.

This article you've done is one of the best ever. I could write book on what I've ncounterd alone in the last five years. I have one thing which is my own, integrity anmd I don't aplogize for getting a sdample here and there for the amount o work I out inot my articles. I am however a witer first, and overclocker second.

