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The article says this:
I checked the first of the two cited sources, and it does not say anything that resembles what the sentence says. I do not know what the second cited source says (since it is paywalled), but these two sentences seem obviously incorrect on their face. As far as I know, the manufacturer of an evaluated product has no contract agreement with CR, and therefore has no enforceable constraints that govern its actions. Therefore, as far as I can tell, CR has no right nor any legal mechanism to control what a manufacturer (or anyone else) can and cannot say about their reviews (at least not in countries such as the United States where a principle of freedom of speech exists, at least as long as the manufacturer's statements are truthful and are within the bounds of fair use regarding copyright and trademark rights). Whatever this is trying to say, can someone please correct it? In the absence of a reaction, I plan to delete those statements, since they seem clearly incorrect.
I see some prior conversation about this in Talk:Consumer Reports/Archive 1 § Use in advertisements and Talk:Consumer Reports/Archive 1 § Bias again.
— BarrelProof ( talk) 19:46, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
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Please remove the following text. This information is a misinterpretation. Also the sources associated with it are self published instead of third party sources.
but its website has retailers' advertisements. Consumer Reports states that PriceGrabber places the ads and pays a percentage of referral fees to CR, [1] who has no direct relationship with the retailers. [2] Consumer Reports publishes reviews of its business partner and recommends it in at least one case. [3]
Please see the above request for removing content. Where that content was removed please add this information.
Consumer Reports is a non-profit organization. It accepts no money, test samples, or gifts of any kind from any commercial source. [4] [5] Products to be tested are purchased at retail prices by anonymous shoppers around the country. [4] Consumer Reports doesn’t publish any advertising from outside parties. [6] [7] [5]
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Douglas Love ( talk) 19:33, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
"Consumer Reports publishes reviews of its business partner and recommends it in at least one case."The source given for this claim is an archived page from ConsumerReports.org which states:
"Editor's Note: PriceGrabber.com operates the shopping service at ConsumerReports.org."One of the services being recommended on that page was the PriceGrabber.com search engine.
"Consumer Reports states that PriceGrabber places the ads and pays a percentage of referral fees to CR".The source given for that claim is a passage written by Jim Guest, which states
"Like other Web sites, PriceGrabber collects referral fees from retailers when someone clicks to them. Consumer Reports will be accepting from PriceGrabber a percentage of fees that it collects, subject to strict guidelines".
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. Thank you!Regards, Spintendo 14:18, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
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