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<blockquote data-quote="Toscadero" data-source="post: 421739" data-attributes="member: 2297">Avanlanche stated in their e-mail, &quot;A customer who has paid for the product has every right to complain as much as they want about the product, and its value. Someone who got it for free does not reserve such judgement.&quot;I always thought that it was a reviewer's job to give an honest opinion of the item being reviewed.&nbsp; Talking about the product's value for your dollar is part of the review.&nbsp; It should be reviewed in such a way to be informative to the reader.&nbsp; I'm not getting the product for free so I want to know if I'm getting bang for my buck.&nbsp; Whether the reviewer got the product for free or paid his own hard cash for it should not be a consideration when he is rating it for the consumer.&nbsp; When Avalanche says that they will continue to provide free copies to other sites (which I also read), they imply that that is only as long as they are happy with the reviews.&nbsp; I had been considering some of their product after reading reviews both from this site and others.&nbsp; If Avalanche wants to play favorites with&nbsp; reviewers that is their decision.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not buying their products is my decision.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toscadero, post: 421739, member: 2297"] Avanlanche stated in their e-mail, "A customer who has paid for the product has every right to complain as much as they want about the product, and its value. Someone who got it for free does not reserve such judgement." I always thought that it was a reviewer's job to give an honest opinion of the item being reviewed. Talking about the product's value for your dollar is part of the review. It should be reviewed in such a way to be informative to the reader. I'm not getting the product for free so I want to know if I'm getting bang for my buck. Whether the reviewer got the product for free or paid his own hard cash for it should not be a consideration when he is rating it for the consumer. When Avalanche says that they will continue to provide free copies to other sites (which I also read), they imply that that is only as long as they are happy with the reviews. I had been considering some of their product after reading reviews both from this site and others. If Avalanche wants to play favorites with reviewers that is their decision. Not buying their products is my decision. [/QUOTE]

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