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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashtal" data-source="post: 421873" data-attributes="member: 3">Exactly.  I don't think Morrus, or any of us here who have reacted negatively to this exchange, would have cared one way or the other if they had simply said, "Hey, we're not able to send out review copies," and left it at that.  That was what they should have done.But instead they made a point of saying that people who do not pay for the item do not deserve to criticize them, something completely against the whole point of reviewing. Do people not let Ebert into a movie screening, because he gave the director's previous movie a bad review?  No - you put out your product and you take it, good and bad, and work with the good, improve the bad. The position is assinine, and I am not surprised they aren't commenting on this matter because it's one hell of a P.R. hole they dug for themselves, especially over what appears to be a  very broad range of ratings ... looks like a regular bell-curve of results to me!  If we were talking nothing but a slew of 1's here, I could see taking umbrage ... but not those scores.Edit: *after Morrus's post, which I didn't see until after I posted* Looks like they've found a way out of the hole.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>