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Alienware Admit Trying to Fiddle Reviews
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.
"They have always had over-priced, flashy cases with mediocre hardware"
Don't knock this business model. It kept Apple going in the years prior to OS-X and the iPod.
Where were you when the voynix came?
For some people, if Steve Jobs farted into a bottle, they'll pay $10,000 to inhale it. And another $10,000 for the bottle (with Apple logo on it, of course).
Funny thing is, the case of MacBook shutting itself down and losing data in the process doesn't seem to bother these kind of people.