Reply To: Is BoW biased in its reviews?

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Due to limited time I don’t tend to watch unboxings as I am usually trying to finish watching the weekenders before the next come out.. (case in point have only just completed last Sunday’s lbs!)

For the more positive view point I think we are always more forgiving if we like the idea and ethos of a product or even a particular company – like kids, your is just a playful scamp where as I wudnt let him play with little billy next door as he’s rough as hell and his mum goes to the shop dressed like that etc etc. I think this can then be perceived as bias is a system such as blood red skies is put in front of a WW2 fanatic like John who gets where they come from and to someone of his skill, what’s a bit of flash/awkward join etc

to my more cynical eye, if I was sending product for review… I would have qc’d the blooming heck out of it before sending along… and only the best runs would be off to the reviewers probing eyes.. if this is how it works of course… case in point based on the few I have seen on here and elsewhere I have recently acquired 28mm/heroic scale minis from a couple of suppliers now that while would still have passed a qc process, do not match what I have seen, despite my slap dash approach and lack of skill. Sometimes the quality can vary between sprues of the same item in the same box.  How you avoid this particular issue I dunno without a bigger budget (please don’t increase the subs because of me!!)