Guess you never worked for UPS
John
-------Original Message-------
From: Michael Porter
Date: 10/17/05 11:12:41
To: zoboherald@aol.com
Cc: twakeman@razzolink.com; triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Battery Testing - Consumer Reports
zoboherald@aol.com wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@razzolink.com>
>
> Consumer reports once published an article on high end speakers in
> which they panned Bose (about 25 yrs ago). Bose sued them. The Bose
> case was based upon Consumer Reports test protocols being faulty and
> yielding inaccurate results. Bose came equipped with audio test
> experts and tests performed by independent test houses that
> specialized in audio component system testing that yielded different
> results....
>
> Moral of the story is that Consumer Reports just may stack the cards
> in their testing protocols so that certain products rank higher than
> others for the purpose of making a profit selling magazines.
>
> ==AM==
> So, just how is CR's "card stacking" different from (per the Bose
> example above) anyone else's? :-) CR apparently wants to sell
> magazines, while Bose apparently wants to sell Bose equipment.
>
> Heck, if any and all "testing" fails to yield desired results, one can
> still count on the ad agency to come up with something like "the
> Fireball XL5 leads its class in ease of operation of courtesy light
> switches...."
>
> --Andy Mace
>
I worked for Bose, once, a long time ago. Horrible management.
Manipulative beyond description. A week in their plant and I thought I
was an extra in Fritz Lang's _Metropolis_, everyone walking around like
automatons guided by buzzers. One of my worst work experiences. If CU
panned them, good. They deserve every bad thing said about them and
their equipment. I wouldn't recommend Bose equipment to anyone, not that
that has anything to do with the argument about CU. :)
They were the pits--btw, this was when they'd just cut a deal with Delco
and their speakers that had been sold to GM were coming back in the
hundreds of thousands. Awful place. Awful.
Cheers.
--
Michael D. Porter
Roswell, NM
Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance.
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