Alienware Admit Trying to Fiddle Reviews

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 30, 2006 @02:12AM from the bad-actions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Alienware seem to have admitted threatening review sites with no future hardware unless positive reviews are written about their products. Hexus.net attempted to obtain a recent Alienware system and were rebuffed in an email claiming that their last review had scuppered the chances of them getting any hardware to review in the future. Follow-up emails confirmed this was part of Alienware's global marketing strategy. " I've read through the whole article and it would appear that the above is what the rep said. Now, granted, one would hope that's one person in that company, but still bad form.

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prodigy of slashdot by zeromorph · 2006-10-30 02:20 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I've read through the whole article...
Hear ye!

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Re:Try Falcon by WinnipegDragon · 2006-10-30 06:18 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hold on, hold on... Did someone just make a comment about 'overprice Wintel PC' and then recommend a Mac?!

The pot and kettle just exploded...