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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhimsyTheFae" data-source="post: 2692663" data-attributes="member: 8964">***Before I respond, I want to state that I am not questioning your integrity, but am stating my opinion as advice and why I have this opinion.  Also, I can see that by placing this on a public forum I am inviting others to question your work and for that I do apologize as it is not my intent.***Whether or not you include the information shouldn't matter (heck a reviewer could lie about how he received the product), but it does.  Basically, I may not judge your review any differently, but what I see is this:1) Review states nothing of how product was obtained.2) Review guidelines state that you should include how the product was obtained.3) I find out later that it was free from the publisher.4) Is there a conflict of interest, a payoff or just a gift and nothing else.If you state up front how you received the product, I will think - well, he may be getting paid off, but he at least he came out and said it, so he doesn't appear to have anything to hide.  It isn't anything personal Crothian, but I have been burned by omission in the past.  So, I am becoming a jaded and cynical consumer.Do I think that you should include that information?  Yes.Do I think that your motives are shady for not including it?  No, it appears that you want to make the review "more" neutral so that people don't think about how you received the product when analyzing your review.  It only becomes an issue when someone finds out how you received the product and begins to question why you would keep that from us.It shouldn't affect the message of your review, but it does alter perception and that is all that many have to go on.Note: Through my life, I have been a fairly unquestioning and admittedly gullible person.  I have often read people's rants about how you should never take things at face value, should always question the validity of stuff and so on.  I would alternately laugh at the paranoia of some people or be ashamed at my gullibility.  It wasn't until being burned many times by the lies of others (many lies of omission) that I have become more jaded (I am still probably too unquestioning).</blockquote>

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