Shimadzu Consumer Alerts Editor's Page (January 2000)

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Shimadzu Consumer Alerts Editor's Page

                    ....time is on our side!

January 2000

The first month of the new millenium marks the third anniversary of the
Shimadzu Consumer Alerts homepage since its premiere three full years
ago. While it's an exciting time to look forward, it is also a great
time to reflect on some of our more noteworthy accomplishments during
the last year of the previous millennium. In December of 1999, we
recorded our 100,000th unique visitor to the Shimadzu Consumer Alerts
website. And this doesn't include the countless recurring visits that we
continue to receive from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Columbia, MD,
USA) and Shimadzu Corporation (Kyoto, Japan). Usually twice a month,
their IP addresses (208.212.50.* and smzk075.shimadzu.co.jp,
respectively) appear in our server logs. So it is logical to conclude
that Shimadzu is addicted to eavesdropping on the latest embarrassing
truths/revelations as unveiled on this homepage.... talk about paranoia!

During 1999, we continued to make significant inroads informing
laboratory decision makers worldwide about "the other side of Shimadzu."
So much so that Shimadzu played a cat and mouse game with us at the
beginning of the 1999 year. They proceeded to petition several servers
that hosted our website in a concerted effort to censor the content and
presence of our homepage. They did not succeed! We were well-prepared
for Shimadzu's escapades and we continue to remain vigilant. Too bad
that they are not this persistent when solving their numerous
hardware/software product problems and glitches! We continue to add new
permanent URLs (eg. http://shimadzu.home-page.org,
http://shimadzu.is-crazy.com) which divert inquiring minds to the real
truth about the corporate lowlifes at Shimadzu. And we continue to index
them as well.... visit www.yahoo.com and look for the search term
"shimadzu" inclusively.

An explosive interoffice memorandum highlighting numerous problems in
the field authored by Shimadzu Regional Manager Terry L. Adams has
continued to amaze our readers. But this was topped by the story we ran
in early October 1999 entitled "Shimadzu GC Blows Up." We had caught
wind of Shimadzu's prospective LC/GC article (published October
1999) back in the late Spring of 1999. Shortly thereafter, we were
forwarded a note describing in detail the incendiary nature of some
Shimadzu gas chromatographs. As one can imagine, Shimadzu was not
pleased when we beat them to the punch while pulling another skeleton
from their closet! They reacted by engaging in a wild campaign of
censoring/cancelling all references to their faulty/defective products
on the world wide web. Unfortunately, they never admitted to the problem
publicly because they didn't want to deal with the flying fur (ie.
liability) much less the flying GC shrapnel. Can you say irresponsible?

As a direct result of Shimadzu's on-going censoring efforts/activities,
a public directive was issued instructing Shimadzu corporate management
to cease and desist in early November 1999. And thanks to our server
logs, we can definitively prove that Shimadzu got the message! The press
release was disseminated via several forums including thru a network
of over 6,000 communication professionals. This fulfills a promise we
made last year that we would initiate an aggressive campaign worldwide
to disseminate factual information about Shimadzu and their egregious
business practices. We will endeavor to use the same strategy again for
the current year in a sincere effort to reach all laboratory decision
makers worldwide. Meanwhile, search engine indexing of all our URLs
continues in earnest. This should help to insure that prospective
Shimadzu customers will find us before bringing this inferior line of
instrumentation into their labs.

We have communicated on numerous occasions that our primary purpose has
always been to provide valuable consumer-oriented information to our
readers. We have never knowingly published any false information on our
website and anything that is published has been substantiated and/or
verified independently (editorial notes and opinions are points of
view.... please don't hate us when we tell it the way it is). In an
effort to up the ante, we have been offering 10,000 Japanese yen since
January 1999 to the first contributor (including the lowlifes at
Shimadzu) who provides us with any incontrovertible evidence by email
which contradicts any of the factual information portrayed on our
homepage (opinions exempted). To date, we have had no takers! We're not
surprised because we are committed to publishing the complete truth but
it should help dispel the notion that we make this stuff up ruthlessly.
The truth is very powerful stuff.... just ask the censoring misfits at
Shimadzu!

For some reason, the prevaricators at Shimadzu continue to advertise
themselves as a 2 billion dollar corporation. For the past 6 years
running, that number has been closer to 1.5 billion. While several other
analytical instrumentation corporations have witnessed double-digit
growth thru most of the 1990s, Shimadzu has watched their bottom line
decline by single digits most years. Why would you buy product from a
company that re-packages the same old technologies? Do you think
Shimadzu is on the cutting-edge? What awards have they won? We don't
know of Shimadzu receiving a Pittcon award during any of the
past four years! Nor do we know of Shimadzu receiving a honorable
mention at any Pittcon meeting ever! So why would you do business with
this outfit?

As many already know, we have been soliciting input from our readers
telling us why and which equipment they won't be buying from Shimadzu.
To date, we have received input from more than 300 prospective customers
who have stated unequivocally that they won't be buying certain Shimadzu
instrumentation. Some anonymous troll noted "that our postings are done
to discourage sales of their products and services." Furthermore, he/she
claimed that Shimadzu "had actually gained sales due to these rantings."
Unfortunately the Shimadzu financial summaries don't support this feeble
claim. More importantly, so what.... they sold a filter fluorometer or
two! Conservative estimates place the loss of sales to Shimadzu (thanks
to the input from 300 prospective customers) at over $6 million dollars
in the US alone. A more complete accounting will follow sometime during
2000 but Shimadzu has already missed out on the sale of several HPLCs,
GC/MSs, LC-MSs, TOCs, AAs and FTIRs. And the losses will only continue
to mount! Dear Shimadzu: What do you think of our "divide and conquer"
theme?

During the coming year, we will unveil a new look to our homepage. We
pledge to continue bringing incredible new stories, periodic updates
along with late-breaking news. In fact, we continue to amass a backlog
of new ideas/stories such that we are not starved for content. We
continue to be grateful to our growing network of contributors and
sources who supply us with an influx of tips, ideas and story
suggestions.... please keep the presses rolling! There are
investigations that are still active and on-going. Therefore, we will
not divulge the nature of these undertakings so as to compromise sources
or jeopardize the possible outcomes. Our network of custodians will
insure that the Shimadzu Consumer Alerts homepage will not vanish from
the internet any time soon. Dear Shimadzu: Stick that in your pipe and
smoke it!


n.b. Remember, quality at Shimadzu means getting passing grades
(barely); it doesn't mean getting it right the first time!

n.b. It's been observed that if you throw enough Shit-madzu up on the
wall.... some of it is bound to stick sooner or later. Meanwhile, the
slinging will continue with glee!

n.b. Something to ponder: What do we have to gain by stating untruths
and falsehoods.... absolutely nothing! Now what does Shimadzu have to
gain by using treachery and deceit? Answer: YOUR business (which
translates into dollars). Who has a bigger motivation to resort to the
use of lies, denials and cover-ups.... us or them??? And we put our
money where our mouth is.... did Shimadzu reciprocate?

BTW: Please note that Shimadzu Corporation has never written us at any
time to question the veracity of the information on our website at:
http://www.bigfoot.com/~shimadzu-sux. It's something that they don't
want to admit but our facts (and opinions) are all in order!

     >>> At Shimadzu, it's all about delivering.... lies, denials and
disappointment!


http://www.bigfoot.com/~shimadzu-sux (is another permanent URL)


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