Editor's Page
....nothing is WORSE than Shimadzu's infamous reputation in the analytical instrumentation field!
January 2005
Two thousand and five (2005) ushers in the 8th anniversary of the Shimadzu Consumer Alerts
homepage.... who would have thought that we'd continue to be sand up Shimadzu's ass? And
NO, we're not going away! Why do 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) continue to show up on our website
visitor logs? For the second year, the Referrer Report (which highlights the top terms
visitors entered in a search engine that directed web surfers to this homepage in no
particular order) included: SHITmadzu, Shimadzu tricks, Shimadzu technical support,
Shimadzu problems, UV-Vis, HPLC, TOC, GC/MS, Chromatography, Spectroscopy, Pittcon,
Agilent, PerkinElmer, Thermo, Varian, Waters, Shimadzu & Kratos. Count on Shimadzu
treating you to some ole dirty rotten tricks!
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 Regional Manager Terry Adams TELL ALL Memo, 5) Shimadzu Sex, Lies and Cover-Ups, 6) The Horrors of Using a Shimadzu GC/MS, 7) Shimadzu Parts & Service Alternaties, 8) The Foreign Language Translator, 9) Shimadzu RF-xxxx Junk, and 10) Shimadzu GC Blows-Up (revisited). What is truly amazing after all this time is the resiliency of Terry Adams' TELL ALL memo. After ripping Shimadzu a new a$$hole, Shimadzu (eg. Chris Gaylor et. al.) promoted Terry Adams to Regional Manager. Shimadzu management MUST have been DAMN proud of Mr. Adams' ability to express himself regarding Shimadzu's $hitty reputation and the $hitty products it produces!
For nearly seven 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 2004, we have received input from more than 825 prospective customers who have stated unequivocally that they won't be buying certain Shimadzu instrumentation. And for the 12th consecutive year, Shimadzu's corporate net sales and/or income (when adjusted for inflation) has NOT surpassed the figures reported way back in 1992. Conservative estimates place the loss of sales to Shimadzu (thanks to this website and the input from >825 prospective customers as of 14 November 2004) at over $37.5 million US dollars.... can Shimadzu say $40 million??? More importantly, how many years (since 1992) has Agilent, Beckman Coulter, Bio-Rad, Bruker, Dionex, PerkinElmer, Thermo, Varian & Waters turned DOUBLE and TRIPLE digit growth??
Shimadzu's products have NEVER been anything to write home about.... and one needs to look NO further than Terry Adams Tell ALL memo for proof of that! Interestingly enough,the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) which enjoys the endorsement and support of 29 affiliated organizations, including the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, "serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future." In keeping with this theme, the CHF is in the process of identifying the Top 50 commercial laboratory instruments (from a candidate list of 65 nominated instruments) which changed the world in the 20th century. Once identified, "the final list will serve as a guide for collecting and displaying instruments in CHF's future gallery of instrumentation in the Roy Eddleman Research Museum." Fortunately, one will NOT find the Shimadzu name anywhere among the 65 listed candidates. None of their inferior $hitty innovations was identified among the top commercial lab instruments that changed the world "for the better" during the 20th century.... imagine THAT!
During 2005, we will observe AGAIN from the sidelines to see if Shimadzu can snag any awards (or even an honorable mention) at Pittcon 2005.... Trust Us, it's NOT gonna happen! The dated dinosaurs (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 technologies is Shimadzu known for? Can you mention even one product? When was the last time you saw one of their so called scientific instrumentation products referenced in a peer-reviewed article? And if you're an avid Shimadzu advocate, one has to wonder OUT LOUD what kind of research your lab produces and subsequently publishes. Why not direct all of us to some of your noteworthy publications that make mention of the Shimadzu equipment supposedly used in YOUR lab? The fact is that one RARELY sees Shimadzu products mentioned in the scientific literature.... you should wonder why that is.... must be a scientific conspiracy against Shimadzu.... NOT!
Maybe you missed the....
n.b. It's been observed that if you throw enough
$hit-madzu up on the wall.... then something will stick. More and more is clinging.... so
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 lying and denying? 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? Answer: HELL NO!
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: $6M US dollars for the rights to this homepage effective 31 March 2003.
You can pay now or pay later.... it will just cost more later!
If you buy SHITmadzu, that you will have $HIT period!
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