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I bought a new lawn mower... Two weeks ago , I blogged about shopping for a lawn mower. I was 'put-off' by the varied user reviews, mostly because they were strong opinion with little facts. The model I bought also had mixed reviews... very strong opinions of comments by people who either loved it or hated it. Some for the same thing. One review said it was inferior quality and the next review said it was high quality.... again, these are worthless words unless the reviewer can substantiate what they did or didn't like. The store only had a floor model of the mower I wanted. Good for me, I got a 10% discount for taking the floor model. I brought the new mower home, took it out of my car, added oil, gasoline and it started right up. I cut most of my front lawn abd had to stop because it was getting dark. It cut easy, didn't bog down, the mulch setting worked perfectly. Although the wheel adjustment mechanism was plastic, changing height of the cut was easy. My only complaint was the handle bar doesn't have any rubber grip... this is typical of models like this because the shutoff and propel safety run parallel with the handle. That's not an issue to condemn a product. Today, I started on the back yard where the grass & weeds are 2 feet high in some spots. I pushed this mower hard... much harder than it was designed for and it managed to do the work. I doubt I'll spend the time to write a review on the retailers website... maybe I should as I feel many of the other comments should be dismissed because of emotion and not fact. (edited to correct a typo) |
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most products now are sold by 'endorsements" be it celebrities or polished, costumed and staged individual.. and people will buy many things based on those variables, so tech spec's and real function is something the marketers know they can by pass because people are very gullible to the characters in advertisements. We use to care to be informed about the actual product, but the 'celebrity factory" took over and now they can promote the character actor and flash the product and people buy it. Remember the car commercial that show the rabbits, with the disco lights driving the car... it tells nothing about the car, but make young people think it to be exciting and dynamic by the commercial and kiddy-land cute by the use of the rabbits> Or Charlie Sheen driving the car in his house. We've become people who are easily duped... good your care about the tech and function.
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