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MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My take on this is no they don't. As long as they are truthful they only report on the quality of the product and prevent many people of spending a lot of money from losing it by buying something that doesn't work.

If your product is shit your company does not deserve to be shielded from the backlash, this is the core of (classic) capitalism after all.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What are we supposed to do? Give bad products good reviews so the poor little million dollar startup doesn't get its feelings hurt?

If we were talking about dishonest, malicious reviews, I'd understand.
That's not the case here though, not only is Marques' review honest, multiple reviewers reached the same conclusion as him.

Maybe try making a good product next time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is this about the Humane thing?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In his video, he mentions the Humane review - but also the Fisker car review which was equally scathing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Just watched the whole video (and the car one afterwards). I think if MKBHD is being disingenuous, as one of the most influential reviewers, he would’ve been the first to be called out (based on the facts he’d got wrong in the video instead of conspiracies.) that didn’t happen so I’d say it’s safe to assume the problem stems from the product itself, at least in these cases. Anyway, great watch.