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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by derefr on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @06:54PM (#19259586)
Most people are only going to ever buy one or two things that are important enough to them to need to be thoroughly comparison-shopped. If there was a Consumer Reports-alike where I could pay "per report" (like paying for investment news "per report"), I'd pay. But I wouldn't subscribe.
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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by jperras on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:05PM (#19260248)
> If there was a Consumer Reports-alike where I could pay "per report" (like paying for investment news "per report"), I'd pay. But I wouldn't subscribe.

I subscribed to CR for a month when I was shopping for a new dishwasher. After I found what I wanted, I unsubscribed. That seems functionally equivalent to what you want, at least when applied to large ticket items where the cost of a month of subscription is a small percentage of the total cost of the purchase being made.

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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by justin66 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:28PM (#19260371)
> If there was a Consumer Reports-alike where I could pay "per report" (like paying for investment news "per report"), I'd pay. But I wouldn't subscribe.

This is a strange comparison. I'm amazed there are any worthwhile investment news items available to purchase for less than the cost of an annual CR Digital subscription ($35). It's so cheap it's hardly worth worrying about if you're going to use it at all.

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