Quote Originally Posted by Phatboy69 View Post
Come on Mods get this thread under control.

The way people are putting "Do not buy" stuff in here is slander and they should be told to remove it from their signatures as its completely inappropriate.

Gotta love these keyboard cowboys shooting from the hip with no personal experience with the product.
Quote Originally Posted by Phatboy69 View Post
Gee if I were a manufacturer I dont think id ever bring a product or comment anywhere near this place if thats your attitude. In my opinion
You don't seem to understand. This place is like an Oasis, anybody can come here and show or review a new product: this is marketing paradise for any company...but there is one simple rule that has always been the "insignia" here: fairplay. In this community reps and users post together in plenty sections, and we do have a tooooooooon of people that get sponsored stuff to test. So, we don't get marketing BS that vendors like to put on their boxes...we get professional reviews from enthusiast users, and that alone feeds the machine: good products get self-praised and announced and crap gets bashed and hated.

So, you are looking at this from the wrong side: I have no idea on the numbers but I seriously belive that EK has made hundreds of thousands thanks to this forum alone throughout the years. Obviously, its a mutual relation: I give you money, you give me products that suit me, but its not a "forever relatin". Everybody knows that this forum is as hard and critique as one could ever be...and at the same time praises quality like no others.

Here, most of the time you won't read complains about money: wether something is expensive or not ain't important, what it IS important is that what you paid for stands to it.

PS: about the signatures. XS has also a name to stand by. If this forum recommended as of now (through his users, obviously) EK products I would be VERY disappointed. I know for a fact that Eddy will fix whatever caused this issues (he is the one that has been praised for ages, because of his good product line) althought we might never know officially: but when that day comes and the products are again as they have to be, we will alll praise such products.

Quote Originally Posted by Phatboy69 View Post
You miss the point.. if any other manufacturers see how the boards allowed to run amok here against a manufacturer, they may be reluctant to get involved with the community here, reluctant to offer equipment for review, and reluctant to do any sort of promotion or PR associated with this forum. The forum would eventually die due to the lack of funding and useful productive information for the community.

How would the forum mods feel If i started saying dont go to such n such forum all over the place.. think about it.
You are missing the point. In forums like this you get free PR and publicity if your product is up to the task. This is why all small companies come here...because it helps them a lot if they are up to the ask. Now, if they are not up to it they never ever show here or they would bankrupt in a hardbeat.

Quote Originally Posted by Phatboy69 View Post
The report in no way declared a plating issue so you cannot claim a plating issue, and they do not need to defend their process or QA. Anyone with half a brain knows that metals and some liquids will react in water. Why is this the manufactures fault that people who thought they new better and went and used DI water and silver coils or other exotic additives and ended up with corrosion issues. DIY has it risks, especially when talking corrosion inhibitors and taking advice from backyard scientists. Would you put DIY coolant in your 20k car radiator? I don't think so.
You want facts, do you? Here they are:

Originally Posted by gabe View Post
Quote Originally Posted by "gabe
For reference, our plating consists in 3 "coats":

1/ Copper: thickness: 0.004mm
2/ Nickel: thickness: 0.005mm
3/ Chrome: thickness: 0.05mm
Now, lets see what Eddy says:



Swiftechs Chrome process is, in total, 12 times more thick than EK's process.

Now, you can believe whatever you want as this is a free speech forum: but try to ask yourself why this is only happening with EK, while we have Swiftech, Koolance, DD, AC and some other brands out there?