Dear Srajan: Good day! Thank you for the wonderful review. Let me arrange the pickup asap and share the shipping label with you soon. I'd love to feature a blog post on our site sharing your review if that's alright with you. Here's a draft of what I'm planning to post… W.
Hello W., you're free to quote complete sentences or complete paragraphs from my review but not splice partial sentences into your own narrative. If that were okay, there'd be no need to send me anything. You'd simply write your own review. The proper thing to do is to simply post a link to my review and let your website visitors read for themselves what I wrote. After all, you call the review wonderful so there should be no issue. Srajan
PS: I'm not publishing this individual's name because this was a private correspondence. The intent here isn't to 'out' or 'embarrass' them. The intent is just an open reminder on how to properly use our reviews in brand marketing. Quote properly without cut 'n' paste edit of original meaning and nuance; or simply link to them. It's not complicated. In this instance, the manufacturer's second proposal was to remove nearly all of the earlier quote snippets to instead reframe my review in his own words in the style of "and Srajan found the x to be this and that". That's of course one way to skin this cat without running afoul of selectively recombined partial quotes whilst still affixing a reviewer's name to it. Does this equal the spirit of the original though? That's highly debatable. Some people will just read the reframed copy and assume that's all a reviewer had to say. Those who bother reading what they actually wrote will find rather more nuance and divergence. Thankfully W. finally understood the point and on third attempt simply embedded the link. Again, not complicated and the right way to do this thing.
