Does it make a difference on if someone who represents or is compensated by a company being a spokesperson etc. it sure does especially when we the users are depending on honest unbiased opinion to buy a detecto.. Common sense is if your selling a product and get compensated regardless how, your a salesman and don’t care about customers In complete honesty What the heck is so hard to understand that. All I ask is on here or any other site, please put an asterisk next to there profile stating so. If you can’t understand that oh boy. Thousands of videos, we have no clue who’s honest but I’m weeding them out. In ending moderator if they are please do so I’m sure this would be helpful if you want a more honest site.
Sales are sales regardless of the piker's end game which is to sell, move product regardless of quality.
Then there's the product that sells its self basically on reviews of usage over time.
Does a person fit into the category of first in line or a wait till the dust settles?
I usually fit into the latter of the two as I prefer to see the results from many different angles.
Saying that I understand where the promotional units are for that purpose-to promote.
I can't really imagine a person receiving a machine free or with a handsome factory discount just because they're a nice person that loves the hobby.
No it's to generate sales, exposure, hype.
Now if your go to machine manufacturer isn't shipping out free promotional machines well that's their prerogative to do so.
The question then begs-why?
They don't need to-or they can't afford to-or is it a find out for yourself after a purchase type of thing.
There will be countless of buyers that need to get that machine for various reasons.
Machine will find that next keeper-regardless of any other factor even considered.
I have seen this for many years, folks that buy a machine thinking it's the holy grail of machines.
Believing regardless of skills, the machine will produce every target that is laying under the surface of the grass/dirt.
Then the cold facts of reality sets in, digging iron, can slaw, tabs, no keepers just like every other machine does, but at better/reduced depth.
I guess what I'm getting at is what is this need to achieve really?
Personally I read, watch, can I understand what the person is telling me, or are they too technically advanced.
Screen shots of the settings of the machine being toted. Here's a great grumble.
Some will say look, look right there! Meanwhile I see a dark screen so many feet away that I say to my screen.
WTF! Your showing a detector screen but how the ARF can anyone see what it's showing?
Now take the person that slows down, shows a clear shot of what the setting are, and a clear explanation on what it's showing.
These are the folks that will get another viewing from me.
The person that goes out, and does a machine to machine comparison at a site.
Now that might not produce actual hyped results.(Imagine the new getting outed by the old version or another machine model) It wouldn't sit well with the manufacturer or recent purchaser.
But it's the truth of what the new vs old can do.
This will take sometime to do-maybe in 6-12 months the dust will settle and the 3 manufactures will have sold enough machines to enough users to where the actual truth is documented to the viewers.
Then I'll make an informed decision on if there's a need to go out and purchase another machine.
