Rosewill and NewEgg: Ridin’ a LITTLE dirty…

So I got an email this morning from a company called Rosewill, a division of NewEgg in Taiwan. It appears that they are fairly new, and want some exposure in the North American market for their products, which include heatsinks, cases, and all sorts of PC related paraphernalia. In their message, they state the following:

If you do, there are some points Rosewill would like to state:

1.After you editing the article, you can send the article to Rosewill before posting.
2.Rosewill reserve the rights of posting the review article.
3.Rosewill reserves the right of choosing the timing of posting the review article.

If you are okay with the three points above, we are happy to have the opportunity to cooperate with you in the long term.

Excuse Me? So what you’re saying is that you want to censor our reviews? This isn’t China buddy! I’m also pretty sure that this violates several codes of journalistic integrity. At first, I thought, maybe it’s a bad translation. Well, no such luck. That’s what they mean. If their products are crap, people will find out sooner or later. Go build a better product! Don’t try to censor the reviews! It’s like the post about workshopping I wrote. If you don’t want to improve your work by receiving criticism, don’t put it out there! You’re not going to win them all in the first round, but you will learn.

I told them they were pretty much scum for even asking us to agree to these terms. If you see any Rosewill reviews out there that are NOT branded as an “Advertisement”, you might want to steer clear from those sites. Looks like we won’t be reviewing them on Futurelooks.