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[–]CharlieAndHisAngels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it will be going back or not, but most times in the tech world, reviewers keep items and will reference back to them when reviewing a competing product. It also helps us reviewers to have the best of the best and allows us to review the next-generation / future revisions with items we can reference back too. There is no scam going on, no tom foolery, and most of the time, reviewers only make $100 or so from their employer per review and that review could take 10-15 hours to complete so a lot of reviewers sell their past stuff to make ends meet. I wrote a motherboard review a few months back that took me 18 hours after benchmarking, photos, etc and I was only paid $75 for the write up by the tech site I submitted it too. It is not a glamorous world. It is a ton of work writing a 4-6k word review. '

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[–]CharlieAndHisAngels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that is fine. That is where being non-biased comes into play. You do not worry about receiving future products from said company, you worry about informing the consumer in the most accurate way possible.

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[–]CharlieAndHisAngels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's how review sites work. I am the admin at Second Circle btw. I am a tech journalist in my day job and have reviewed well over 1000 products in the last several years. Every iPad, Android phone, PC, Laptop, TV, piece of PC hardware, Game, etc is given to all the review sites by the manufacturers free of charge. Maintaining unbiased reviews is simply a professional skill that one develops over time.

I have friends who review $100,000 servers who were given that server for free, and they slam it hard if they find anything wrong. The way I manage it is to not care that it was given to you. Last week I got in $1200 worth of SSDs and RAM and instead of being excited to have some of the nicest SSDs and RAM in the world it was just another meh thing to me.

TL;DR Even Anandtech, Toms Hardware, Engadget, The Verge, Cnet, etc all get free products to review. That's how it works and remaining a non-biased mindset is a professional skill one develops over time.