Avoid Hunter Balmoral wellies

[Pedro]

You are encouraged pretty much to rate everything you buy on Amazon and Ebay these days.

If you look hard enough you'll see all sorts of differing reviews, some of them quite radical. I'd have thought that so long as your experiences are truthful and any opinion is based on that, then where's the problem?

And to be honest, those people that encourage others not to buy a product because theirs don't fit and they leave it too late to change them, well I would suggest that most reasonable people would give that the credence it deserves and I doubt anyone would sue for that.

Reviews of products are helpful in deciding what to buy. I would like to think reviews might also be helpful to those that make and sell products.

 

[willowbank]

Further to my above post, site owners/moderators might find this interesting!
In law, Moderators can be held liable for any statement that appears to be defamatory because forum members are deemed to be 'authors' within the meaning under s.1(2) of the Defamation Act 1996. There is no question as to liability that an author will be liable for any defamatory statement. As for a Moderator, who has 'some element of control in publishing a defamatory statement' is likely to fall within the meaning of s.1(2) of the same Act and will therefore be held liable.
So basically, it would appear that any defamatory, or slanderous comments posted could in fact make the site owners/moderators just as guilty as the original poster!
MS

Now that is quite worrying, whilst i agree that a defamatory post might just be seen, if taken to the extreme, as damaging to the future sales of a product surely everyone can appreciate that it is in fact just one mans opinion of said product and as such it is up to the prospective purchaser to form an opinion on the matter, based on their own research and not solely on a forum post from a disgruntled individual.

For what it's worth I am a supporter of Le Chameau Neos having had a number of pairs over the years which are worn everyday, a tip for anyone similar to myself, if you are unfortunate ( as I have been) to have a boot ripped by wire keep the undamaged boot because as sure as eggs etc it will be the other boot damaged next time.

regards WB.

 

[Gunner223]

I fancied a pair of the leather lined Balmorals and couldent get my foot in them , im a size 10, so tryed up to a 12 to see if i could get them on and still couldent, so i asked the bloke serving me to try a pair, and he couldent get them , so there must be a problem there somewhere.

 

[grumpyoldsod]

For what it's worth I am a supporter of Le Chameau Neos having had a number of pairs over the years which are worn everyday, a tip for anyone similar to myself, if you are unfortunate ( as I have been) to have a boot ripped by wire keep the undamaged boot because as sure as eggs etc it will be the other boot damaged next time.

regards WB.

You obviously have better bad luck than me , sods law dictates that if I saved say an undamaged left boot the next one that I damaged would be the right again leaving me with a pair of lefts !!

 

[Archer]

You obviously have better bad luck than me , sods law dictates that if I saved say an undamaged left boot the next one that I damaged would be the right again leaving me with a pair of lefts !!

iirc Roman army footwear- the studded sandal- had neither a right nor left shaped sole and that makes me wonder if there isn't a case for that idea when it comes to work wear

 

[willowbank]

You obviously have better bad luck than me , sods law dictates that if I saved say an undamaged left boot the next one that I damaged would be the right again leaving me with a pair of lefts !!

Perhaps we should set up a "swap shop" on the forum for single wellies ( a kind of dating agency lol)

ATB WB