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...and not like too much...
Quote: I obtained your information from the website and learnt that you have much experience with C#. programming. Therefore, I would like to express our desire that you could write a review for our products.
We are a professional vendor of .NET, Silverlight and WPF development components.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Tell them you'd be happy to review them, in exchange for a perpetual, royalty-free license (Including future bugfixes) to all the products you'll be reviewing, regardless of how you rate it...
Hey, some of those grid controls are expensive... I dunno about you, but I'm sick of rolling my own...
EDIT: Oh, and ask for source code too... in case they're pushing malware. Gotta be sure, right?
modified 13-Oct-16 9:44am.
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They want a review?
Too easy:
The company comprises inveterate spammers, which means that they are unlikely to be trustworthy and reliable. I therefore forewent testing their products, in favour of staying well away from them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I obtained your information from the website
What website? If it was your own website where you have your resume then what is the problem?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The problem not with the obtained info - all I have on the web (have no personal website, but several accounts all pointing to here) is public anyway, but should I advertise their products? Why should I give my - real or imaginary - reputation away like this?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: but should I advertise their products?
All they did was ask you to "write a review for our products." I don't see why that is a big deal. Who cares? Ignore it or do it. Either way, I'm not sure why they upset you.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Kessef ? ? ?
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Gornisht...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Redst yiddish? Azoy!
Also, my latest grandson has the rather atypical name, shared with you, of "Peter", for several weeks, now. So far as I know, he hasn't complained at all about it.
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זיי בעסער וועלן פּינאַץ
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Funny thing - in the email alert from CP it was written left-to-right.
I can easily read backward English, but luckily a click away was the original.
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I tried for a couple of minutes to get it right-to-left, but it wouldn't do it (on this machine).
Maybe it would work if I changed my system language or keyboard settings, but it's not something I do often, so it's not worth the risk of windows screwing things up altogether.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Treat it as a job: how long's it going to take, how much of your effort is involved, and what's the reward?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: how long's it going to take,
A few weeks (3-4). I do not know these controls of theirs, so I will have to read a lot and create a good test case, before I can say good or bad...
OriginalGriff wrote: how much of your effort is involved
See above...
OriginalGriff wrote: what's the reward
Nothing I need...
And by looking at the site - only positive reviews published, and I can't be sure mine will be one...So maybe all will be in vain...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Then don't bother replying. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I just got one of those this morning via my Higher Order Programming website.
I've actually talked to them in the past, they seemed legit, and I negotiated "if I write a review, I want free product" which they were happy to oblige, I just never got around to reviewing it!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: "if I write a review, I want free product"
Fair. Just I need no one of those products...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Just I need no one of those products...
Which is why I never ended up writing a review. 
Marc
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I've got loads of things from writing reviews (or write-ups, as I call them), e.g. I was given an ipad3 before they were even released in the US.
If that doesn't show you what a complete waste of effort writing reviews is, I don't know what will.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 13-Oct-16 14:42pm.
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My Christmas pressie to me from Herself arrived yesterday - a 2KW UPS - after a three week delay, and I unpacked it today to make sure it works.
Stupid couriers have dropped the box: the case has been bent and "jumped" out of place, breaking a plastic spar1. And given it's got two big heavy batteries in there (15Kg packed weight) I'm not taking chances that the electronics aren't damaged, or the batteries cracked.  Plus a child could probably get his finger in there now!
Come on guys - it has "fragile", "this way up" and "heavy box" all over it!
So now I have to send it back and wait another three weeks for a replacement...
This is why I order christmas presents months in advance!
1: Dropbox 1[^] Dropbox 2[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well - maybe you should learn the lesson from bike couriers.
Their best delivery option is themselves, as road pizza.
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Ordered cat litter on line as it was a good price. (two 40 pound (U.S.) boxes)
The shipping boxes were destroyed but the product boxes were okay. No knife needed to open the shipping boxes.
They also had the "Heavy" label all over it.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Heavy does not include fragile. Was any of the litter damaged?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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