At least they just grumbled about your review. I once posted to a reflector about (what was well known) buggy control firmware in a (non-Elecraft) radio. (The “radio" part of the radio was fine, but sometimes you never knew what pressing a front panel button would break next). I almost immediately received a cease and desist letter via emai from the developer of said firmware, threatening a lawsuit based on potential loss of livelihood and reputation if I didn’t make a retraction. I made a snark-laden public retraction on the reflector, which I’d guess was lawsuit worthy in itself. But I guess that was enough. I never heard from this person again.
I eventually just got rid of the radios and moved on …. life is too short. Grant NQ5T > On Mar 13, 2021, at 1:52 PM, Wes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I bought a European made tri-band Yagi antenna from a friend who had never > installed it. (I won't mention the manufacturer) It was still in the > unopened box after sitting in my friend's garage for some time. The pieces > of tubing were shipped inside each other (graduated metric sizes have a lot > of clearance between sizes) and when I extracted them all I found two pieces > for the same element were very corroded. I used my household lye/vinegar > method to clean them up and assembled the antenna. It worked fine and I > decided to write an eHam review. > > Based on the QC issue I rated it a four stars. I almost immediately got an > email from the company in which I was accused of improperly storing the > antenna and all sorts of other things. It was also claimed that anything > less that five stars would ruin their business, etc. I sent photos of the > tubing and heard back that this was impossible, it's never happened before > and so on and so forth. I got so much grief about this that I wrote the > reviews people at eHam and asked them to pull my review, which they did. > > Wes N7WS > > On 3/13/2021 10:37 AM, David Gilbert wrote: >> >> I agree that a preponderance of 5 ratings are from people congratulating >> themselves on their choice, and the text often goes like >> "this is a fine rig" or "met all my expectations." >> >> And out of roughly 2,200 eHam ratings I once profiled just for grins, almost >> all of the ratings of 1 star or 2 stars were for service or support issues >> ... which tells you nothing about the rig itself. >> >> I also agree about the need to look for trends in the comments to find any >> worthwhile insight ... which is why the NCJ article that used only the >> summary average ratings is borderline useless to me. >> >> 73, >> Dave AB7E > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
