Saraguie
Headphoneus Supremus
Here's where to gripe about companies.
I think there is a fool born every minute. Why anyone believes anything that comes out of the Marketing department of a company is beyond me. Their entire job is to convince you to buy their product instead of some other product, and/or to convince you to buy something you did not know you needed. In a sane and rational world, the concept of "Marketing" would not be needed. The engineering department would simply publish the specs they used to design the product, and the results of the tests they ran after the product was built. It would then be up to us to figure out whether we want to buy the product.
But, humans are lazy, irrational & emotional creatures. We want decisions to be made for us. We *want* to be led by the nose and we like products that appeal to our emotions in an irrational way. Then, we're surprised and indignant when someone has told us exactly what we want to hear, but we then find the product doesn't actually meet our requirements or expectations.
A company with an ethical Marketing department is usually the sign of EITHER: 1) A company with a unique product that the consumers actually do need and want; 2) A company that has failed.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a bigger Marketing department and you can sell the same old cr@ppy mousetraps for twice the money...