Toys in Love

Reading this mornings post from the blogosphere, one in particularly caught my eye, and my attention.

Epiphora, a woman we here at Toys in Love love and admire for her down to earth and honest reviews, has apparently been banned from EdenFantasys, a toy shop we also love and admire. And it seems to be a question of personal opinions collide (read; Titanic and a certain block of ice), or something like that. – Read more Here. – And just to put my two cents into the fray; we certainly never here at Toys in Love felt Epiphora to be a negative influence on the community. – Quite the contrary actually.

Look, I understand a shop wanting to have the best reviews possible out there. – And I understand the reviewer wanting the best toys out there to review. But please, you just can’t force opinions one way or the other. – A reviewer should be free to give honest opinions. – If not it just becomes a place full of good reviews for crappy shit nobody wants, or cares about. – Or so people will eventually come to think.

And I know we have it on our contact page here as well, but just to make it clear, what you find here on Toys in Love, and what you’ll always find here, are our candid opinions, our view on and about the toy in question. It will never be tainted or pressured, and we will certainly never let ourselves be bullied by a store, one way or the other. There are lots and lots of shops out there that actually value honest opinions from real people. – And thank God for that! As we see it; the traditional function of reviews is to keep consumers from buying bad stuff – and we certainly strive to follow that directive!

I really hope EdenFantasys and Epiphora will come to an understanding. – Here we have only good to say about both of them, – and EdenFantasys is a shop we have affiliated ourselves with from the very beginning. – But I do feel the way EdenFantasys just shut Epiphora out, without any notification or explanation was dead wrong. That’s just too cold! – Even if it turns out they are in the right.

Here we really value a good relationship between those that sends us toys to review, and so far we have had only great communication between us. But should we ever find ourselves in some form of conflict, one thing you can be sure of: we will always take the path of delivering honest reviews! Without that we might as well just shut this place down, and we certainly have no intentions of doing that!

EDIT: If you read the comments, Carrie Ann made a point about reviews versus the influence Epiphora has on the community. – As in forums, comments and so forth (please read Carrie Ann’s comment). What we here saw, from EdenFantasys statement as being a negative influence ‘period!’, seems to be the latter only.

Which all seems to be a knife’s edge for me. – Either you value a person’s opinions or you don’t. – As far as I’m concerned, I’ve certainly never felt Epiphora as a Jekyl & Hyde personality. “We like your reviews, but otherwise hate everything you say.” Seems a bit odd, right?

I dunno; as Carrie Ann, we love Sweitzerland as well, but it’s very hard to sit back and do nothing when two ‘entities’ you love and respect fight. Either way, we still feel that the way EdenFantasys handled it was… just too damn cold! It’s like breaking up with a girlfriend by text or firing an employee by post-it. There are ways to do things right, – and this was just not one of them.

We just hope it works out. That they… but they wont I suppose, too many harsh words said by now. – Too many bridges burned or what have you. A shame…

Tags: EdenFantasys, Epiphora

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