power supplies you should review

[shovenose]

Originally Posted by MI-Tazz

I doubt that you could get any of us to put one on our testers... Unless someone else is willing to flip the bill when something goes Boom!

Thats really insulting.

[McSteel]

Originally Posted by jonnyGURU

Actually, no. Most manufacturers are "alienated" by our testing methodology and won't send us product because they know we'll blow it up and shun them.

While I definitely wasn't being serious with my comment, I never realized the manufacturers were down to this level of pathetic. It's amusing, actually.

[rafal_iB_PL]

Haha, they're even worse than that. Eg. Tagan's rep's opinion about some review of their PSU at [H].

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Originally Posted by shovenose

or YOU buy them...

With what money? After paying for the Sunbeam, I might make enough off that review to buy one meal at a restaurant up here. I have a four figure yearly income

[shovenose]

What?!
Dont you make money off advertisements on the site? The more psus you review the more pageviews

[McSteel]

Yeah, and running the site is free, so it's all pure profit.

[Spectre]

Originally Posted by jonnyGURU

Actually, no. Most manufacturers are "alienated" by our testing methodology and won't send us product because they know we'll blow it up and shun them.

Seriously, there have always been ebbs and flows to what people were sending out for review....but lately no one is sending anything it seems. And if they do it is only the absolute top product from their premium line.....if they are even responding to emails anymore.

[Tator Tot]

Originally Posted by McSteel

While I definitely wasn't being serious with my comment, I never realized the manufacturers were down to this level of pathetic. It's amusing, actually.

They do the same in the Video Game business. Even though those reviews are purely opinion based.

Some companies won't send reviewers a game till after it's been on the market for a week or two. Or at all, because previous games from that developer or series have gotten bad reviews.

Which is why you see so many people complaining about game reviews and them being hogwash.

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Originally Posted by shovenose

Dont you make money off advertisements on the site? The more psus you review the more pageviews

Bandwidth costs money.

[Tazz]

Originally Posted by shovenose

Thats really insulting.

So then if you had a few thousand bucks in a test setup, you would have no problem in testing a PSU that someone else took apart, made some sort of repair?

Personally, I would need a little more proof than just a few posts saying "I refurbish PSUs", before I would.

It takes more than just a few bucks a month to run a site like this. I don't know why people seem to think these things happen for free.