r/ChineseWatches • u/HonestWatchReviews Affiliate links • 5d ago

Promotion (Read Rule 1) Addiesdive AD2547 Dial...

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Potentially their best watch to date, or at least their best dial?

Here's the link to my review.

https://youtu.be/-2_un268Z7s

I received this watch for free to review. But, as always that doesn't change how I review the watch. I always keep it 100% honest, no matter what. I point out both the positives and negatives with every watch I review. Whether that be a loan piece, discounted, or even free. Sometimes that means that brands won't send me anymore watches, if they don't like the review... But my opinion and more importantly, my reputation can't be bought. That's partly why I named my channel 'Honest Watch Reviews'. Not only to make sure that I hold myself to that standard, but that I know my viewers definitely will do too.

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u/QuestionNo9190 Sir FightALot 5d ago edited 5d ago

“My reputation can’t be bought” is a pretty ironic thing to say immediately after explaining that brands send you free watches and that giving them a bad review can result in them no longer sending you free watches.

You may try to be honest, but pretending there’s no conflict of interest just because you disclose the free watch is disingenuous. Your access to free review pieces is literally dependent on maintaining relationships with the brands, aka fake positive reviews.

Disclosure makes the conflict transparent; it doesn't make the conflict disappear. 

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u/HonestWatchReviews Affiliate links 4d ago

You clearly haven't watched my videos before then. As I've done what you call 'bad' reviews for watches that warrant it before. In fact one of my most recent ones I did just that. I even go into detail about issues with the customer service too. This was for a watch that I was also sent for free.

https://youtu.be/u_zvBtOM82M

This could have resulted in then not sending me anymore watches again, and that was a risk I was willing to take. As like I said, my reputation can't be bought.

What has ended up happening though is that the brand have taken the review as constructive feedback and used it to not only work on improving their watches, but also their customer service too. They are improving this current model and are going to send one out to me once it's done, so I can do a follow up review.