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Re: Expert Builder website - Great response results in first update
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Date: 
Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:40:57 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Wilson writes:
> Allan Bedford wrote in message ...
> > I was playing entirely fair, according to the mandate of my site.  Expert
> > Builder is not LUGNET, different rules apply.
> > 
> > The reviews on Expert Builder are *meant* to be provocative and not
> > necessarily kind.  I take it from your comments that you're not comfortable
> > with these types of reviews, and that's o.k.  That's why those comments • were
> > posted there and not here.  I had begun to feel in recent weeks that I was
> 
> Nobody minds a provocative and not necessarily kind review. There are enough
> of them posted on lugnet.reviews to make that obvious. Nobody minds you
> objecting to Jack Stone - many of us agree with you, me included.

Indeed. I don't have any particular desire for Jack Stone sets (though I do
own two of them) but I do think they are great fun for 3-4 year olds. They
are also apalling value in terms of price per piece.

> What Richie is objecting to, and I agree with him, is that you "review" a
> set without actually owning or building it, and make statements in the
> review which are plain wrong. That's not a review. You really should state
> on the page that you are going by the box picture, not real experience with
> the set.
> 
> Even from looking at the box pic you can see those 2x2 columns have vertical
> slots... if they'd fit garage doors, for example, (which they should if they
> fit other standard sliding pieces like portcullises), that would be great,
> I'd love garage door holders which are not red or blue!

Cheers

Richie Dulin



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  Re: Expert Builder website - Great response results in first update
 
All this brouhaha has made me buy me first Jack Stone set. Thanks a lot. (25 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)

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Allan Bedford wrote in message ... (...) were (...) Nobody minds a provocative and not necessarily kind review. There are enough of them posted on lugnet.reviews to make that obvious. Nobody minds you objecting to Jack Stone - many of us agree with (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.general)

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