And it begs the question whether he used the connections with Drapers to build the relationships needed to get all the accounts with wholesalers to start Vector Air.
I'm far more interested in honesty and credibility of the host than fine camera work and good lighting, BAR, for example, seem to keep their filming costs below tuppence-ha'penny and, whilst obviousley biased towards the guns they stock, still come over as trustworthy and sincere. AAR(se) On Air talks down to his audience, he sounds like a primary school teacher reading a bedtime story (had me nodding off several times) and acts as if we dont all know that he is just a lacky for his wifes company.
You know reviewing an air rifle is like making love to a beautiful woman.
A good analogy.
Totally agree. Aside from his dreadful presentation style and addiction to awful autocue delivery which lands all his jokes flat, he's just getting so incredibly repetitive and boring. The whole channel has also just become a front for the RFD business owned by his children and his Mrs, which he always tries to play down.
I've had most of my critical comments removed or clearly hidden. I've looged in with other YouTube accounts and none of the comments are there. He clearly likes to be right and calls anyone who disagrees with him, no matter how politely, a 'troll'. He needs to understand that psplle with different opinions aren't trolls, they're just people with a different opinion. But arrogance can do that to many YouTube personalities.
Like someone else stated, you must take his reviews with a pinch of salt. Just like the ones in the Archent comics. In the magazines, people like Terry Doe will not say anything bad about any airgun or product because they are all part of the trade. With AAR he won't slag anything off because his buisness sells them. Just watch them for their entertainment value or to get an idea for yourself of something handles like and looks like. It's better than no airgun reviews. Just look what happened to Replica Airguns, the Canadian chap who used to do youtube reviews. (And he was good).
As i said ,I've no interest in the content itself. I work with all this stuff every day,but it seems most people see the vids as pure advertising ,which they certainly appear to be.
Sure. But that doesn't mean the world needs another in depth review on the same gun by the same reviewer. It just becomes a conveyor belt of the mediocre.
When I last checked his wife was listed as the sole director of Vector Air Limited. She uses a different surname to his on the director info but it's defo her.
VECTOR AIR LTD people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK
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Yours are way, way better. You have a far better presenting style, your not reading off an autocue and you speak naturally. Your videos are really interesting and, for all the equipment AAR boasts about having, I don't actually think yours are any worse. AAR does something really odd to the audio, which makes them actually not all that pleasant to listen to on some headphones. I think it's the attempt to make it stereo or something.
