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Tim Watts wrote:
It's a long time since I subscribed to Which, but when I did I was
never disappointed with getting their best buy for something like a
washing machine. Cameras and Hi-Fi etc are such a personal thing you'd
tend to look at specialist mag for those. But even then I'd doubt
you'd always agree with it.


I did a trial about 15 years back (after getting used to Internet mobo
reviews) and was less than impressed. They seemed to get the thing out
the box and spend an hour with it. No extreme testing, no engineering
opinion of "this looks well made, this not so, there's a flumblewidget
which is good..."

I'd not expect them to pull apart every single item they test. And as
regard long term, they used member feedback long before it was used by
sellers. But of course Which haters didn't like that either, if it
disagreed with their views.

It was good when there was no alternative (80s) but, perhaps my
expectations are higher, but they do not seem to be really testing the
products. I'll allow perhaps they've got better recently?

Dunno.

What seemed to be the norm was people hating Which for not giving a
product they owned and liked 100%

Can't remember anyone complaining about buying a 'best buy' then finding
it rubbish.

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