Editor's Page
....no one (NOT even Shimadzu) has jurisdiction over the truth!
January 2003
Two thousand and three (2003) marks the sixth (6th) anniversary of the Shimadzu Consumer
Alerts homepage.... who would have thought that we would continue to be "sand up
Shimadzu's ass" for sooooo long? And NO, we're not going away.... one quarter million (eg. 250,000) page views in 6 years should convince
everyone of that! Wanna guess who recorded that 250,000th page view on January 20,
2003? We just tell you it was one of Shimadzu's own IP addresses (208.212.50.* and
smzk075.shimadzu.co.jp from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Columbia, MD, USA and
Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan, respectively). Website traffic increased ~10% over the
past year while Shimadzu operating income was in the toilet ONCE AGAIN!
In reviewing the individual page view statistics generated by website visitors to this site over the past year, some interesting trends continue to unfold. The Top 10 Most Visited Links at the www.bigfoot.com/~shimadzu-sux domain (in decreasing order) were: 1) The Japanese Rape of Nanking, 2) Manufacturer's Showcase of Quality Analytical Instrumentation Vendors, 3) Shimadzu's Inferior UV-1601 Offering, 4) Shimadzu Sex, Lies and Cover-Ups, 5) Shimadzu Regional Manager Terry Adams TELL ALL Memo, 6) The Foreign Language Translator, 7) The Horrors of Using a Shimadzu GC/MS, 8) Shimadzu RF-xxxx Junk, 9) Shimadzu Parts & Service Alternatives, and 10) VWR Drops Shimadzu UV-1201 Spectrophotometer.
For nearly five years, we have been soliciting input from our website visitors telling us why and which scientific equipment they won't be buying from Shimadzu. As of 31 December 2002, we have received input from more than 660 prospective customers who have stated unequivocally that they won't be buying certain Shimadzu instrumentation. And for the 10th consecutive year, Shimadzu's corporate net sales and/or income has NOT surpassed the figures reported back in 1992. Conservative estimates place the loss of sales to Shimadzu (thanks to this website and the input from >650 prospective customers as of 30 November 2002) at nearly $30.2 million US dollars.... can Shimadzu say $40 million??? Another updated accounting will follow again sometime during the second half of 2003. Shimadzu continues to miss out on the sale of numerous HPLCs, GC/MSs, LC-MSs, TOCs, UV-Vis, AAs and FTIRs. And the losses will only continue to grow! Dear Shimadzu: What do you think of our "divide and conquer" theme.... it's working damn well!
Shimadzu and company shareholders continues to see their fortunes rot away. Shimadzu noted to shareholders and customers: "on the profit and loss side, operating LOSS was 1,835 million yen ($13.8 million dollars)" for the year ended March 31, 2002. In fact, Shimadzu reported a net loss of $61,038,000 US dollars which amounted to a net loss of $0.23 per share. This on top of a net loss of $85,315,000 US dollars for the year ended March 31, 2001.... OUCH! This company is BLEEDING RED INK! Shimadzu watched their stock price (Dow Jones Company symbol: J. SMD) sink further to a 2002 low of 261 after watching it plummet to a 52 week low of 294 yen by the end of 2001. You can track the dismal results at www.multities.com using the ticker number: 7701. Want to go with a LOSER.... choose Shimadzu!
And Shimadzu's BAD reputation has only hurt their bottom line further. ESA (Chelmsford, MA) which privately labelled Shimadzu's dual piston pumps (Model 582) and sold them exclusively for use with the CoulArray coulometric detectors NOW offers Agilent HPLC pumps which don't have the reliability problems innate to Shimadzu pumps. And then Shimadzu was named a PHUCKED Company.... Miracles REALLY Do Happen, Just NOT at Shimadzu! Add to this the ability to view The Shimadzu Consumer Alerts homepage in Chinese, Japanese & Korean along with some Shimadzu $hitware and you begin to understand why Shimadzu's reputation is sooooo soiled!
During 2003, we will watch AGAIN from the sidelines to see if Shimadzu can snag any awards (or even an honorable mention) at Pittcon '03.... highly unlikely! The outdated technologies (including those incendiary devices) peddled by Shimadzu should help to seal their fate once again even before the voting begins! Think about it.... what cutting-edge innovations is Shimadzu known for? Can you mention even one product? We will continue our quest of bringing incredible new stories, periodic updates along with late-breaking disparaging news about Shimadzu to light. We thank our website visitors, many of whom who sit on the sidelines as horrified onlookers to an automobile pile-up.... is Shimadzu naive enough to think that customers will buy their $hitty products after reading thru this homepage? We are grateful to our steadfast network of contributors and sources who supply us with news tips, ideas and story suggestions such that we are not starved for content. Finally, we'll thank [again] the sales people working for the competition who continue to share some of the fruits of their labor in the form of sales dollars they took from Shimadzu due to the persistant presence of this homepage on the world wide web. Dear Shimadzu: Our network of custodians will insure that the Shimadzu Consumer Alerts homepage will not vanish from the internet any time soon!
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n.b. It's been observed that if you throw enough
$hit-madzu up on the wall.... some of it is bound to stick. More and more is clinging....
hence, 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 intentional use of lies, denials and cover-ups.... us or them??? And we put our money where our mouth is.... did Shimadzu reciprocate?
Can they reciprocate???
BTW: Please note that no Shimadzu Corporation figurehead has ever written us at
any time to question the veracity of the information presented 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!
Dear Shimadzu: $5M US dollars for the rights to this homepage effective 30 September 2001.
You can pay now or pay later.... it will just cost more later!
At Shimadzu, it's all about delivering.... $hit to YOU!
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01/31/03