Youtube Review or Spokesman ???

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So a couple weeks back I was contacted by a seller about doing a review on my small YouTube channel about this scope . I very politely thanked them for the offer ( very kind of them ) but I had already seen one of these and it was a joke to me how bad they were . As a matter of fact I started a thread here about it . 
They told me I could keep the scope , they just wanted to get the word out . I felt like if I accepted a free scope I would be obligated to sugar coat my thoughts so I just passed . I'd rather be honest about stuff on my channel than try and " move product " 
WELL WHATA KNOW!!?. A much better known YouTube guy released a review of the " Scope" and sure enough it is ALL fluff ... Wow.... 
Guess I'm just not cut out to be a salesman ? 
I truly have a great time making YouTube videos and maybe occasionally helping someone else from throwing hard earned money away on some things that have come back to bite me in the ass . 
​ I think I'll just keep doing my own thing without having a banner flying behind me and dressed up like a NASCAR driver wannabe.
 
Lol, I wondered if I'd find this thread after watching that terrible 'review'.
Literally nothing said about the glass, turrets, reticle etc. 
Of course all that doesn't matter at all in a scope review 😂 Especially when it'll be the bottoms of coke bottles used for the lenses and plastic slinky's for the turret springs.
And it's a fact, not fluff, that the biggest risk you are taking buying that thing is being called a 'tactical mall rat' by all the guys that have to live with the regret of buying their 'real boy' scopes... Sticks and stones! 😂
 
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Looked but didn't find the review. Have to admit, I did an OOOOOHHHHHH and AAAAAAHHH at the neat features listed in the picture showing Windage and Elevation adjustments. Such innovation!

Edit - Found the review is question. Seemed genuinely impressed with the gizmos. Hate to say it but the Red Dot (Feflex?) Maybe it was the inner 12 year old coming out with the lights and whistles taking the day.

For the gun he has it on, it will work, but parallax is probably set to 100 yards. for us normal airgunners that shoot considerably shorter distances, no, this scope won't work. Then, talking about putting it on an AR! It'd be interesting to see how it holds up after a couple hundred rounds of .223 shaking all the components right off the gun. Got a feeling he might have a slightly different opinion after that.

Oh well, too many gizmo's for me. I like the "KISS" principle, Keep it simple 'cause I'm pretty stupid at times.
 
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It is like buying a fully-loaded Cadillac—just full of goodies to fiddle with. Once the new wears off, you realize just how much weight the options pile on for things you almost never use! The only other scope I can think of which comes close, is the ATN X-Sight II. Lots of bells and whistles, most of which don't work as advertised. 
 
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I have the little brother of this scope, a 3-10 mag, with red laser instead of the cool green one... bought cheap from China, just put it on my hatsan at44 tactical, cause i removed the delta optical titanium i had on her to put on my hatsan Gladius that i ordered the other day, it works for plinking, under 40-50 yards, but no target scope for sure, at full magnification and over 40 yards, it's like looking trough a curtain when it's raining! But i think it looks pretty cool on a cheap tactical gun like hatsan , but would be mad if i saw it on a daystate or even a armada... 
 
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I think this goes to buyer beware on all purchases. Honestly, I think Rick was excited about all the gizmos, but do I really need the laser and reflex on my bench gun? Well, in my case, no, it's just dead weight. For hunting, I can see a use for a laser, provided it doesn't spook the game. The reflex has no use to me.

Combine that with the small eye box on most cheaper scopes meaning like AG72 said, it's like looking through a curtain while it' s raining. Sort of like my BSA 6-24 that I paid $60 for last Christmas. Up to 12X it's not bad but at 14 and up, I just can't get lined up with the scope. I'll bet this scope suffers from the same problem but at much lower magnifications.

So, looking at Rick's excitement over the gizmo's and subtracting the gizmo's I don't need, and the fact that it's fixed parallax, and a tiny eye box, even at $78 bucks it would be money wasted for me, but just because it's not for me doesn't mean someone else won't be just as excited as Rick. (back to the inner 12 year old here)

Maybe if we ask him in a couple months about the scope and if he's using it as a primary on any of his guns, and how excited he is about the gizmos, he'll have time to mellow a bit. I suspect it was just, "Hey, loot at all the cool gadgets!".

I know I've done that more than once. . . . . . . . 
 
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"JoeWayneRhea"WELL WHATA KNOW!!?. A much better known YouTube guy released a review of the " Scope" and sure enough it is ALL fluff ... Wow.... 
Guess I'm just not cut out to be a salesman ? 

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Thats funny, they approached Steve a few months ago & he turned them down because he didn't feel like this product was "in line" with the airgun industry.
 
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Hmm... I'm seing a lot of discutions about honnest test, revious of airguns in last several weeks. On USA, UK and polish forums and airgun Fb groups. And most of the opinions are like:
-everyone is payed 
- they have to talk good about that stuff because they have it for free from producers and distributors 
And I'm wondering - if I'm weird or people are. 
Airguns are my hobby and passion but my main passion (I'm just realizing that) is sharing konwledge. Actually sharring knowledge on anything that I'm currentyly passioned about. That is why I own a small motion designers company (ands that puts bread on my table), but I also own a website where I try to share my konoledge on motion design and filmmaking for free for people. That is also why I have - as airgunner - a blog and I run a Fb group about airguns (to share konwledge for community) but about that later. 
As my motion design website growed - I got some calls, mails from software producers, scripts developers, and hardware distributors abut reviewing the stuff that they had. And in 11 years of that site I had only 3 sponsorred articles - that were clearly marked as sponsorred, and I got a bunch of stuff for review... but I had one rule: I'm making honnest review and either it will be good or bad review - I will published it if you send me your stuff. And you know what? Most of those people were ok with that, and most of the time (even if my review was harsh as hell) they just left me stuff that i was reviewing. What more interesting was - bigger company they were more ok with my honnest review. 
But. Even that I had (and still have) that rule, even when everything about how and why I'm reviewing that stuff - there always was someone who said that I'm a sellout (corrupt). 

With airguns it is different (specially in my country - Poland). Most of the big distributors are not interested in sending stuff for review, or if they are - they demand good review. So ... I had other idea of how to find a way to bring new (new as new for review non necesery new as not used) stuff for reviewing. I figured that I will buy a gun, run with it, test it, review, tunned it (as good as I can and as good as that exact model can be tunned to work better than fresh from the box), and then after that - sell it. There is a problem with that idea - if I made bad review it will be harder to sell, and that is the case (that is why I'm stuck with some crosmnan bb replicas and gamo pooptty plastic airguns). But my answer for that is - i found a contact with some distributors and feven if I'made already a review of f.eg Weihrauch airgun or AirArms but I know that quality (trying to sell what is good), and I know how much better I can tunned it for someone ... and every little extra cash that I can make on that is going for buing some stuff that I know that there will be a harsh review of it or if even if review will be objectivli based on gun quality ok - it will be a hard sell. 
So Idea is clear, I clearly described it for my readers how it works and why I started that micro-store on my blog ... doesn't matter from time to time I hear that I'm trying to make money from airgun community etc. 

What I'm trying to say in my wonky polglish (polish-english :) ) is - doesn't matter what you do and how clear, honnest and transparent you try to be - there will be people that will call you a sellout. And for you Joe I would say: if they give you a free stuff (not in that sense that it is free so give me that, but in sense that they give you new oportuninty for new test, review, video or article) take it - but state it crystal clear that your review will be cruelly honnest and not for them to review it before publishing. If that client will not accept your rules - ok ... end of story. But if client will agree for your terms - go for it. If company agrees to be honnestly reviewed mean that:
1. they are sure of theirs product 
2. even if they're not sure - they are mature and conscious enoug to listen constructive critique

PS.
JOE - love your videos - keep up the good work.
 
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Yeah when I saw it I kinda thought airsoft. It honestly wouldn't have phased me but when I first got serious about plopping some real money on airguns I watched all this guys videos and trusted his opinions .
Now I would put about as much stock in his opinions as Bob the Homeless guy who hangs out by the Dairy Queen down the highway ....Correction ! I'd give Bobs opinion more credit. Lol
 
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I don't begrudge anyone from making an honest living just because I don't agree with them but I can't take him serious anymore. I called him out in one of his commercials because he just read the manufacturers' specs and shot a 21 yard group. Even if the product is decent his "review" commercial just don't give an accurate overview so that a buyer can make an informed decision about the product. He's Mr. "Useless" when it comes to reviews.
 
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