Reviewing the Reviewer(s)

Now I'm not talking about unethical reviewers who mask their ads as their own opinions "el natural". What I'm talking about here is those reviewers on youtube who are not owners of the products they
review. They are merely reviewing a unit sent by the manufacturer for an exposure for those products. I mentioned XoticPC in an earlier post, something you have to know is that those laptops they review are the review units although not all of the things I list below apply to them.

I have a few complaints about them:
1. They should clearly express that they do NOT own those products but instead just doing an exposure for some other companies. This is important because it concerns their credibility. 'You put your money where your mouth is' literally, a review unit doesn't cost them anything. Thus they won't be able to give an opinion from the point of view of someone who has shelled out some actual dough for the product.

2. Since most of them have to return those review units, they won't be able to give you a review after some prolonged use, you'll just find some vanilla benchmark tests. You'll not find those peculiar bugs/wears that will only appear after some extended (ab)use. For those you'll have to go to forums, especially owners' lounge, one very interesting grievance I found was about the keyboard and palm rest of Aorus X3+, it looked a few years old instead of a few weeks old from just natural skin oil from your fingers. Something you'll definitely not get from those vanilla review units. Although you have to be careful even on forums because there's no way for you to verify their claims either.

3. Review units are sometimes not the same as the actual products. Now, a very amusing case is the Aorus X7 pro, the review unit is actually worse than the actual product, for this I have to give
GigaByte some credits since they actually listened to feedbacks garnered during their review period. But, usually it's the other way around, the actual product is not as good as the review unit, case in hand, my GS60 ........ Another famous case is the Kingston SSD now

Well, that's all I have, I know it's more of a rant, but a good rant that might help some people :)

Since I was kinda 'duped' by those review(s)