In reply to Jim 1003:
> I appreciate you've got to make a living, but I presume I am right in saying those buisnesses having their ropes reviewed have paid for this? Any rope sellers or manufacturers not paying are not covered.
No-one pays for reviews but we do usually only review gear from businesses we are working with on a day-to-day basis although they don't necessarily have to be advertisers. We have no current advertising from Beal, for example, but their rope is in the review.
We are not reviewing shops in this review (or any review TBH) so I see no reason why we should link to shops who aren't advertisers.
In terms of missing brands, I think you are probably only referring to Simond (who are in fact Decathlon). We have made various approaches to Decathlon over the years but have never had any working relationship with them.
> I'm just saying the review is not independent or objective because there are others out there much cheaper and just as good, so I wonder about the point of the review?
How do you know that the "other ropes out there" are "just as good"? Have you an example that you have tested?
> However, if that was made clear in the review then I wouldn't have an issue. The review is almost really an advert as opposed to a review?
I can assure you that some of the brands featured in all our Group Tests don't regard them as adverts if their product doesn't do well.
Alan