Well that’s weird. I have the horrible feeling the $30 claim was false. Or maybe a case of “here review our $30 item” and he never clocked the real price. But frankly everyone’s either reviewing stuff they buy or at least using affiliate links: how could you review something from Amazon and not know the price?
UPDATE: Interestingly he never links to it in the YouTube review, so he’s NOT affiliate linking (at least not now). The one I picked up is the one everyone’s talking about, but it seems to have been tracked down in the comments, by readers.
So either the seller lied about the price (perhaps abusing the reviewer’s trust) or maybe it was to a different, now-dead listing.
I thought that was odd too, that he wasn’t actually affiliate linking any of these survival items that he was reviewing. But then I don’t know if youtube has changed their policy about advertising and monetizing products recently. I think they may have, and he was particularly affected by it.
Depends on the task at hand. Its usually good to have both a knife and a good axe or hatchet. Some might prefer a machete instead of the axe since that’s handy for brush clearing as well, if space wasn’t a huge issue just bring both.
sometimes it’s useful to have a review by someone who knows how to test the product.
Shopping site reviews are often written by someone who has been nagged into writing a review a week after purchase, and doesn’t know what a properly engineered rival is capable of.
