Reading "User/Owner Reviews" on e-tailer's websites can be quite amusing!

Such Geniuses & Wordsmiths of Deft Aplomb!

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2012 Lefty American Standard Jazz
2017 Lefty American Professional Precision
2018 Rumble Studio 40 Combo
2016 Rumble 200 Combo
One day they shall name a GREAT city after me, and they shall call it LINNINGRAD

I know what you mean. Education ain't what it used to be.

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I have some Fender gear.
(Telecaster, Jaguar, Villager 12 String. Mustang l, Bronco, SCX2, Rumble 350, HRDIII, Rumble 2x8 Neo Cab)
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I use them sometimes to help me make a buying decision, but how many times have you read a great review only to have the next review state exactly the opposite.

Yes, some of them are amusing.

Ya some of them guys is just stoopid .

I like reading them. But when I'm using them to help make a decision, I try not to magnify the negative comments too much. It's amazing how one negative review can throw a person off. If some of the stuff confirms what I may have already been thinking myself, then usually I'll give it some weight. But I've encountered user reviews where a majority of people have been less pleased with someting, and I can't figure out why sometimes.

Always best to try things for yourself in my opinion. If you can't, sometimes you can be at the mercy of user reviews.

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I have done hundreds of reviews of woodworking tools and products and have gotten to know lots of folks in the manufacturing world there. During one of the major national trade shows I went to lunch with a bunch of sales people from a major tool manufacturer and they spent most of the 2 hours there telling med about how they spent hours every week writing bad reviews about competitors products on the bigger seller sites.
I don;t know how you fixsomethingg like that but I think it is important to remember that it happens andprobablyy not just int he woodworking industry.

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Tom Hintz, owner
Geezerguitar.com
NewWoodworker.com
NewMetalworker.com

linnin, user reviews can be helpful and yes amusing sometimes. If they are available I will read them and sometimes look for them if I am interested in a piece of gear.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

They're worth reading, but you get a lot of:

(1) Folks so amped-up about their new toy that they just gotta crow about it.
(2) Folks without enough experience to make an informed judgement.
(3) Malicious trolls (professional or hobbiests) who love to trash stuff. I've read some pretty extreme exaggerations of equipment failure (like... the neck totally broke in half while I was playing it). Really?

I think if you get enough reviews, the aggregate score is a decent indicator.