In a recent battle against the forces of evil, I happened to notice that the lumpen-element company had a claim on its website that it had won an award as "Best in County" in its particular field, as judged by the marvellous reviews from its customers. That seemed odd, as the online reviews I could find were unanimously awful. I then started investigating the 'award' and found out its run by some married couple from a farmhouse in Surrey. I got in touch to ask which reviews were used in the judging? How many reviews in total were taken into account? How many entrants there were into the competition? And whether one has to pay a fee in order to enter the competition. It turned out, laughably, that they were unable to give me any of the information I asked for, since it is all "confidential". However, they were able to confirm that yes, you do have to pay a fee to enter. So the number of entrants to the competition and the number of reviews taken into account might possibly have been 1. The review might have been written by the managing director of the company. There's no telling. It seems scandalous to me that companies can connive to mislead consumers through these worthless awards that are not worth the paper they're written on. Does anyone else have these 'pay to win' awards in their industry.
Yes many. It's effectively a fee you pay for advertising/publicity. We often pay to enter these "competions" where we may win an award if the fee is very small. It's complete b0ll0cks as you suggest of course but we weigh up the fee, the exposure we may get, who else will be there on the evening of the event (the ceremony is usually a networking event) and our chances of winning. If the fee is low, i approve it. If it's a meaningless award that is also expensive with little business upside I tell the sales/marketing people "to reconsider whether it's really the best use of company funds".
I mentioned it on another thread. Dave Gorman did a bit about a series or two ago. When you see those adverts that say voted best product in the processed chilled cheese sector or some other such nonsene, it's basically just a paid for accolade.
It’s the same with “The Garden Of England “ moniker. Used to be Kent and now it’s some **** hole like Yorkshire . Who decides this ? I was never asked to vote in a referendum, perhaps they missed me off the electoral roll.
The company I work for (for another two weeks anyway) won an award for best airport technology. Our product isn't in use in any airport in the world.
I wouldn't deign to enter such a bogus competitipn, but "friends" - and nobody knows me better than these "friends" - say I'm the world's best poster on the subject of Brexit
Excellent that you’re placing more questionable aspects of modern society under your fierce gaze. Playing the Rantzen role. Born in Berkhamsted, btw.
Yeah, but York, the Moors, the Dales, Richmond, Whitby, Rievaulx Abbey, Fountains Abbey, Malton, Helmsley, the Howardian Hills, RHS Harlow Carr... Ok, they are all North Yorkshire, but still...
True enough. I suppose one has to conclude that Yorkshire is superb until you get to the inhabitants.
Might still be the best airport tech in the world. Not your company's fault airports are too stupid/tight/have no use for it.