[Ipg-smz] Magazine Article - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2019-12-26 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

[Steve Wexler]

Perception/opportunity of conflict of interest.
Pay a fee for advertising the award or pay a fee for winning the award?
If the award is vendor neutral, then why charge a fee for advertising the
award?
I remember there being a lot of negative chatter about the objectivity of
Gartner awards.

On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 at 01:03, Barbara Krasnoff via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> Sorry, I may be missing something here, but I can't immediately see what's
> wrong with charging a fee to use the JD Power name for advertising purposes
> after you've won an award as long as that doesn't affect the actual
> judging.
>
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> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 6:22 PM Gabe Goldberg via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>
>> Today's D and a friend's response:
>>
>> https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-12-27
>>
>>
>> https://m.sfgate.com/business/article/J-D-Power-cozy-with-winners-2620609.php
>>
>> "The companies evaluated by J.D. Power in fact pay the firm to use its
>> name in their ads, and a hefty amount of cash is said to be changing
>> hands."
>>
>> On 12/26/2019 12:30 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
>> > https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-12-26
>> >
>> > I'm shocked ... just shocked ... by this implication.
>> >
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