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Re: [GWL]: New type of greenhouse - offer to GWAA members

Title: Re: [GWL]: New type of greenhouse - offer to GWAA members
I'm going to play devil's advocate here for a minute.  
    I did product review for a magazine for a while.  My feeling is that a good garden writer should NOT  pay for a product if they are seriously going to review it.  
    In the first place, if you have to pay for it, you are more likely to fudge the review in favor of the product  out of feeling obligated.  Several editors I talked to said they didn't want reviews if the reviewer paid for the item, either.
     In the second place, the company can take the cost of the units off their taxes as advertising.  If I pay for the unit, no matter what the deal, I'm not going to say word one about it in print so there is no question of bias.
    And I won't write about a product I haven't tried.  I've seen too many things that looked wonderful on paper and fell flat in the field.  One very nice looking garden cart with lots of clever tool holders on it and a surface that could convert to a potting table was a flop because the wheels were wrong and the thing wasn't good on anything but a paved surface - you could hardly drag it on grass.  But you wouldn't have known that from the picture.
    So  I would tell the company that if they want publicity that really means something, they have to be willing to GIVE sample units out.
-Lon
   
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From: shane <shane@greenhousegarden.com>
To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
Subject: [GWL]: New type of greenhouse - offer to GWAA members
Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 12:00 PM


Dear Fellow GWAA Members,

For some time now I have been an author of books on greenhouse gardening. Lately, I have been involved in the development of a new line of greenhouse/season extending structures known as Grönhaus. I am writing you to let you know of a special offer made only to GWAA members. You can purchase these greenhouses (there are 5 different models each a different size) at 50% off the retail price plus shipping until February 28, 2002. 

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