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Jesus fuck Linus. Half the reason you are popular is because people trust your statements; and you are just flushing that away.
But why does it even matter if they do it correctly or not? It's still a water block that costs over $800. It's a bad product at a fundamental level because not only is it a niche of a niche it's wildly overpriced. No amount of testing is going to make it a good product. It was never going to sell well. I do not understand why people care so much about it.
The quanity-over-quality and QA errors are way more egregious than them shitting a product that deserves to get shit on. And as far as I can tell the auction thing is a single, isolated mistake of that nature. They do have a track record of making errors in their reviews. But what they don't have is a history of auctioning off prototypes. It is a really weird thing to be so up-in-arms about. It was an accident and they are paying for it. What is the big deal?
This is exactly the problem LTT is having, thinking they know better then the consumer. If the only metric is value/money then Apple, Ferrari , Hermes, etc... Would not exist.
They really need to take a step back and rearrange their priorities as a company.