For Our Readers
Throughout the LowGenius Websites, there are advertisements for a variety of products and services. Like many other sites, we have found that the affiliate programs sponsored by companies like Google, Amazon, and TigerDirect can be an effective way to help us pay the bills.
The LowGenius Websites also prominently feature reviews and endorsements of various products and services.
Our friends know that we are sticklers for ethics and principle, but not everyone who visits this site can be expected to know us personally. Thus, we believe that a full disclosure and disclaimer statement is in order.
The advertising you see on this site may generate revenue for the
site. Some of these ads are generated by the ad distributor (at the time of this writing, Google) based on
the content of the page; others, such as in-line or sidebar links to items at Amazon.Com, are selected directly by LowGenius Enterprises to be
shown on this site.
Any of these ads, including those appearing as part of a product endorsement, or
ads which appear elsewhere on the site for endorsed products, may
result in compensation being paid to this site's operators if a user chooses to purchase, download, or
participate in the product or service being offered by clicking these links.
This site does not endorse any product or service that we don't
believe in, regardless of whether we are compensated for any link
activity relating to the product or service. Readers may rest assured
that any endorsement on these pages is the result of a genuine belief
in the value of the endorsed product or service, and that the
endorsement is in no way encouraged or affected by the fact of having
compensated links. The positive opinion of LowGenius Enterprises and John Henry DeJong is not, and has never been, for sale at any price. You may trust our endorsements here to be completely free of any conflict of interest. If a vendor has given us free products or services to enable our review (as opposed to products we already own, or purchased as consumers) that will also be disclosed within the body of the review.
We would respectfully request that you not follow any link on this
site, whether or not it's an advertisement, unless your interest in
the product or service offered is genuine.
If you have any questions
or concerns about advertisements you see on this site, please feel
free to contact us directly.
To Have Your Product Or Service Reviewed Here
We often choose to review and endorse or criticize products and services that we have purchased of our own volition. We believe that intelligent producers of goods and suppliers of service recognize the unmatched value in a positive review from a source that is trusted to be impartial, and LowGenius Enterprise is committed, above all else, to impartiality in our review and endorsement processes.
We will be more than happy to review your product or service on these pages, under the following conditions.
- Summary
- What we do: LowGenius Enterprises will happily review any product or service provided to us for such purpose by the manufacturer or service provider, so long as the product or service is provided without cost. We do not guarantee a positive review, recommendation, or endorsement.
- To submit your product or service for review:
- For tangible products: indicate your intent to send us a sample product using the contact form on this page. Then ship the product by your chosen courier service to: LowGenius Reviews, 8113 Cornwall Rd., Oxford, NC 27565. If durability or stress-testing will be part of the review, be sure to send us enough product to keep testing if we break a couple.
- For software and services: Please use the contact form to request a review. We will the communicate with you to determine service duration, collect product keys, etc.
- Fine Print:
- Provision of product: You provide the product or service to us free of charge with the understanding that it will not be returned. Please see exceptions below for 'big ticket' items.
- Ownership and legal rights: In the case of products, you understand that for all legal purposes, the product you provide becomes our property and will not be returned. We reserve the right to keep the product and use it, donate it to charity, or making entertaining videos of it being demolished by a horde of rampaging woodchucks, as it suits our fancy.
- Service Agreements: In the case of service provision for review, you understand that we make no agreement to purchase your service once the review period has expired. You may choose to continue providing the service at no cost to us, or we may choose to purchase the service from you, but we promise nothing in this regard.
- Timeliness of review: We agree to make every reasonable effort to review your product in a timely manner. 'Timely manner' is defined as long enough for us to use the thing and get a feel for it. If that's a deck of cards, it might take five minutes. If it's a hard drive or a refrigerator or a vehicle, it may take longer - maybe even a month or two in the case of big-ticket or durable items. We will play fair - it doesn't take six months to read a novel - but we will not impose an artificial deadline that could compromise the quality of the review or mask defects that only show up after a few days or weeks of use simply so we can help you make your sales goal for the quarter. With all due respect to the producers and providers of the world, the intended purpose of our reviews is to inform and educate the consumer, not to be an advertising platform for your new video game.
- Product Endorsement/Recommendation: We make no guarantee that the review will be positive. If your product is crap, we are going to tell people your product is crap. The fact that you have given it to us at no cost has no bearing on whether it is a quality product or not, and if we allow our reviews or (potential) endorsements to be weighted by the fact of your giving them to us, our reviews then cease to be impartial, and are immediately worthless.
- We're not kidding. The above paragraph is real, and we will stick to it. This is not just some public-facing disclaimer, this is how we do business. Do not think for a minute that if you send me a Porsche that falls apart after I drive it for 100 miles, I'm going to give you a glowing review just because you sent me a Porsche.
- Cash, inducements, and bribes: Under no circumstances do we accept cash for our reviews, or any work that goes into the review process. That would be unethical. Again: this is not just a publicity line. Any offer of cash or other inducement to award a favorable review or endorsement for your product or service will be publicly disclosed.
- Scope and Nature of Reviewed Items/Services: We will happily review anything from a cracker-jack toy to a new MacLaren F1, if you want to give us one. Assume nothing: if we don't know enough about a product or service to review it competently, we know someone who will be happy to test it for us. Just because the site owner is a man in his 30's doesn't mean everybody involved is. If you have any questions or reservations, please feel free to ask. Please note: We can not accept firearms or any product or service which is illegal to use in the State of North Carolina. We do not review pornography, 'adult' websites, dating websites, get-rich-quick schemes, or any product or service the primary purpose of which is to encourage discrimination, hate, or violence against any person or group of people based on ethnicity, religious belief, nationality, marital status, physical ability, or sexual orientation.
- Software Reviews: We do not review shareware unless we find it and download it ourselves out of our own interest. If you want us to review your software, send software with the same license and functionality that Joe User would get if he bought it from your website.
- Big-Ticket Items and Durable Goods: For Items with a retail value over $2000 (US), we will certainly understand if you want it back when we're done playing with it. However, this must be indicated in your review request, and you are wholly responsible for shipping costs. If you do not explicity ask for your Porsche back when you give it to us, we're going to title it in our names, insure it, register it, and drive it until we're done...and if you want your widget back, be sure you not only let us know, but include a shipping label.
- Communication is key: Please don't just send us a box full of widgets and expect us to know what you want done with them. We will assume you are the Widget Fairy and have blessed us with this cornucopia of Widgets out of the kindness of your heart, and you'll never hear of them again. There's a "Contact" link at the bottom of every page on this site. If you're going to send us a box of something, take a minute, click the link, and let us know.
- Our Obligations: We agree to publish a review of any item or service sent/given to us for review, subject to the above terms and conditions. We note again: we agree to review. We do NOT guarantee a good review, nor an endorsement. Marketing specialists sometimes lose sight of this fact: people generally know when they're being BS'd, and they don't appreciate it. We will not BS our customers. If we start that crap, our review is worthless. The value to you, the provider, in sending us free stuff is that IF we endorse it, our readers will trust that endorsement and find it far more meaningful and influential information than a random advertisement or paid blogvertisement spit out by some shill-for-hire who's getting paid to pretend they like your stuff. We will not withdraw a review, once written. However, should your product undergo an upgrade or other substantive change that you believe will change our review, you are welcome to send us a sample of your new product or service for reconsideration. We reserve the right to modify our reviews over time should continued use beyond the date of first review reveal defects in materials, workmanship, or service quality. We make no guarantee of any increase in sales volume or product popularity as a result of our reviews.
- Affiliate programs: We reserve the right to include affiliate links through third-party programs to your product or service which may generate revenue for the site owners. Any revenue generated in this fashion will remain the exclusive holding of the site owners, and will not be shared, distributed, or compensated to any agency offering their product or service for review.
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