Originally Posted by
AirMoore
Here is the problem: You haven't been around long enough. Get some seat-time in the forum.
Get a few Escort Hypes and subsequent Fails under your belt, become a Beta-Tester of theirs, and then come back and tell us what you think.
You have no idea what bashing Escort is, I was (when Escort did their job) one of the biggest supporters of the company on the site, when it was really V1-zombie-land: Check wars between BV and I...
It has actually calmed down if anything (there may be more zombies now... but not of the class [I won't elaborate there] that their used to be).
The problems with Escort now:
-Their prices are so exorbitant now, that they bring on much criticism themselves: A $1600 remote-mount should never, and I mean NEVER be beat by a $400 dash-mount. Before your time, the V1 was hammered (by me) as being overpriced... 25% more then its competition (minimum), now that Escort has done this... they better bring LOTS to the table... which isn't what they have done as far as: RADAR DETECTION goes... which is why we buy RD's
-They lie. Plain and simple. They say anything for a sale... this cannot be even tallied how many times they have done this. To forum members directly, in advertising etc.
-They use us as Beta-Testers, then deny, deny, deny until it becomes a problem for them... for which they fix it.
-They basically don't listen to us when WE ARE the experts:
Now you might say: "Well they invent the detectors why should WE be able to tell THEM anything since 99.9% of us on here couldn't make one" HERE IS WHY MY YOUNG BIRD:
Yamaha gives the bike to Valentino Rossi to use in his races. Its doubtful that he can design and build the bike to the specs that they give him, nay I would guarantee it. BUT NONE of them could ride the bike like Rossi can, thus when he comes off the track and tells them what is right and wrong with the bike... they listen and they fix it, because there isn't one of them that is the expert that he is when it comes to using the technology that Yami gives to him.
Thus we are the Valentino Rossi's of the RD industry, and Escort is the Yamaha... they make something that we can't, but they do not use it like we can. We are the experts and they should listen.
(Sorry Yami, don't want to give you a bad name... though you did over-hype the R6 rev limits didn't you?)
Young puppy, you know not what bashing is...
BUT NOW you know why Escort deserves the truth we speak. We are speaking the truth. When Escort gives us a unit that does not deserve such criticism, then my friend, you will hear Escort get the praise they deserve, for now... they are getting EXACTLY what they deserve.
Yell at me for calling your favorite black kettle: black, but until the kettle is a different color, its a black kettle. Yell at me for the truth, if you must.
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