Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 29, 2023

Scathing lack of delivery review is worth your time.

Arlo might be a little too full of himself. Reminded me of a lady I met who was indignant her fridge had the manufacturer’s name displayed where her friends could see it. She felt she wasn’t getting compensation for that.

A man’s gotta do, what a man’s gotta do!

It could be worse. There are those that screw up the review curve by never giving more than 3 stars for even the greatest item or service.

Right on!!!!!!…

Market research. Making everything bland since 1950.

What bugs me most, is that they start asking for a review when you’ve had the item for a day at most. Give me some time to use it and appreciate it, before you ask for a review!

marketing is very annoying. I just hit the garbage can icon.

If they ask for feedback more than once, I give it to them.

On a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 is “I’m not going to read it anymore” and 5 is “I wish there was more than one strip per day” How would you rate Arlo & Janis?

The people they’re asking to review their product are a) untrained, b) are likely not critical thinkers, c) have no definition of what the scale 1 to 10 or 1 to 5 even means, and d) on average received a C in English writing.

Worse are the customer surveys, “its only a couple questions”, only a couple more, only a couple more….

Don’t ever ask me what I think of you. I might not give the answer that you want me to.

I purchase vitamins frequently. I am asked to review my purchase of say….Vitamin B.

they want to know how I liked my purchase…..

“uh, well…..it went down easily. I didn’t die.”

But look at how much time

It took to make that rhyme

If it was just a rating I wouldn’t mind, but they want details. I too find it annoying.

What Arlo said.

I got an email to review something I bought. Then they start asking all kinds of personal questions and I delete the email. The less I reveal online, the happier I am.

Arlo channeling my grandpa here.

I agree with Arlo. My payment does not entitle the seller to give me homework..

What’s left? Yelling at those rotten kids to get off his lawn?

Along similar lines, why do car dealerships think that we have to advertise for them by adding their license plate frame and/or logo stickers to the back of your new car? I typically replace that as soon as possible with something more personalized.

I agree Arlo

I feel that when a manufacturer asks for feedback, they can toss the bad ones. And now it makes the consumer feel like she doesn’t have to review the product on google or amazon or somewhere where they don’t have control.

“1) How did you like our product?

2) Are you likely to by such things in the future?

3) What is your income?

4) What is your political party?

5) What is your favorite sport?

6) Do you watch cat videos? (Just kidding. We know you watch cat videos, and which ones you watch.)"

I think he’s referring to the endless e-mails from Amazon, asking for a review of the spatula or outlet strip Arlo bought. I only review them if they fail in short order, or arrived looking like an alligator had chewed on it.

What I like is when Amazon wants you to review a product that hasn’t arrived yet…

We had the decals removed from my wife’s vehicle when we bought it and several years later had taken it in for a warranty service. When we came back to pick it up, there was the dealer decal on the trunk. We went in to see the service manager and told him to get that thing off.

He said it was company policy to put them on. I told him if he didn’t get it off I was filing a police report for criminal damage to property and then going straight to municipal court to file the charges, naming him as the suspect. I told him after that, since my wife works for a local law firm, we were going to sue for damages and anything else the attorney could think of.

He started gasping for air (no, I didn’t have him by the throat) and telling one of the technicians to get the car in and remove the decal.

We no longer have that vehicle and won’t ever get another one from that dealer again.

I never buy a shirt with a visible logo…not that I could afford a Polo or YSL anyways. It is hard to avoid logos on pants (like a pair of Levi’s).

On one of my Dell Work Computers, I put a sticker for a rather rare diskette manufacturer… “ALF” ☺

And on my current CYBERPOWER Home Computer, I have put a “SATIVA” sticker over the “CYBER” part. Where I got that sticker, I have no idea…

(◔˳ʖ◔)♫

No, it doesn’t.

It is what it is?

Offer them an outstanding review for the low, low price of just twenty dollars.

They are just asking, not demanding. They realize people like to share good news and bad news with friends and that some of us consider it our duty to warn against or invite into the use and further appreciation of things we know.

(“Pintos were fun cars to drive and seldom exploded unless they were rear-ended.”

“Other than the tendency to make you fall asleep while driving, this is a great sleep aid.”

“I was never robbed more than once per visit down in Rio and the rest of the excursion made it well worthwhile.”

“This computer will make a great anchor for small boats after it fails. It won’t get hung up too often in snags.”

Reviews like those.)

Then you get a bunch of pop up ads trying to sell you the same item

“DERN” skippy. Amazon does this way too much. Some things I buy for later use, so I don’t have a rating. Others do not send the right product, but when I complain about the seller, Amazon won’t allow my comment. To “HECK” with them.

Amen Arlo.

It really irritates me to get repetitive email or text messages to review the service I received when I used the drive up window at the bank. I sent the deposit in the pneumatic tube. The receipt came back. Whoopee!

Okay! I bought your product! That’s where the relationship ends!

So very true. If a product or service does what it claims, then there has been a fair exchange. If it exceeds expectations or does not meet the claims make, comments can be very appropriate….

My feelings are….if the product is unsatisfactory, I will respond with a bad review. This is to help people avoid poor products.

If the product is satisfactory, I will give a favorable review. This should help people decide and avoid the poor products.

In any case, I will review stuff only when I feel like it.

I buy a roll of painter’s tape or some such minor item and the next day Home Depot is after me to review it. Nah.

I recently bought a home health monitoring device from a company through amazon. A week or so later I received a card from the company telling me if I gave my purchase five stars they would send me an amazon gift card. I tossed it…

I’m surprised some companies put their name on the appliance, considering the junk they make. Samsung dishwashers for instance.

yep…..pay me for each review…Best Western does!

I attended a Search Engine Optimization class last night. Fancy talk for getting your website at the top of Google. One way is through reviews. Doesn’t even matter if it’s a good or bad one. So they don’t care what you think, only that you spend the time to help them get to the top of Google. I’m with Arlo on this.

I’m with Arlo on this, feedback, reviews, ratings etc. have gotten out of hand. I have better things to do with my time.btw. I don’t buy “branded” clothing, either.

I’ve gotten more laughs at reading the comments than I did Arlo. Thanks guys !!!!

I bought something from Amazon I believe, got an Email a few days later wanting me to review it . I gave it 5 stars and hit send, it would not send unless I gave a 20 word explanation of my review. Did not give them 20 words.

Apple gets the cake. I hardly ever saw a laptop in a movie that doesn’t have their logo.

Amazon…. @Reviews/Emails keep coming… LOL

I don’t get e-mail nags from Amazon, prolly b/c when I go to leave a review on my own, it won’t let me because I’m still using up a bunch of gift cards from my former employer’s rewards programs, and I guess only people who pay with “real money” can leave reviews :^(

Seriously do we have to review every move that we make?

But don’t you benefit from reading others’ reviews, when choosing items to buy?

EVERYBODY wants a review. Dentists, doctors’ offices, restaurants, retail stores, Amazon, anything online. It’s too easy (undoubtedly fully automated), they clog up my email and messages. I’m already wasting too much of my time just looking at them to find out what they are.

So no. Spam folder for the emails (“Unsubscribe” never works) and delete the messages. Get off my lawn!!