Editor's Page
....nothing is WORSE than Shimadzu's infamous reputation in the analytical instrumentation field!
January 2006
Two thousand and six (2006) marks the 9th anniversary of the Shimadzu Consumer Alerts
homepage.... who would have thought that we'd continue to be beach sand in the crack of
Shimadzu's collective ass? And NO, we're not going anywhere! Shimadzu continues to
"keep tabs" on what is going on with this homepage as evidenced by the continued
appearance of their corporate IP addresses in our website visitor logs (208.212.50.* and
smzk075.shimadzu.co.jp from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Columbia, MD, USA and
Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan, respectively). For the third 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, Fluorescence, Pittcon, Agilent, Dionex, PerkinElmer, Thermo, Varian and
Waters.
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) Shimadzu Parts & Service Alternaties, 7) The Horrors of Using a Shimadzu GC/MS, 8) The Foreign Language Translator, 9) Shimadzu RF-xxxx Junk, and 10) Shimadzu GC Blows-Up (revisited). Shimadzu's Regional Manager Terry Adams' TELL ALL memo which highlights Shimadzu's $hitty company reputation along with the $hitty products that Shimadzu manufacturers continues to be bombarded with page views! On the other hand, the Japanese Rape of Nanking just tells the world how this culture devalues women. Do you think anything has or will change "for the better" in Japan or at Shimadzu anytime soon?
For nearly eight 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 2005, we have received input from more than 850+ prospective customers who have stated unequivocally that they won't be buying certain Shimadzu instrumentation. And for the 13th consecutive year, Shimadzu's corporate net sales and/or income (when adjusted for inflation) have NOT surpassed the figures reported way back in 1992. Conservative estimates place the loss of sales to Shimadzu (thanks to this website at over $39.6 million US dollars.... can Shimadzu say $40 million??? In retrospect, Shimadzu has been growing at an annual rate of a paltry 1.22% for the past 13 years and they use advertising words like "productivity, functionality and sensitivity." Sounds like a cart full of $HIT-madzu.... are you buying it.... their $HIT that is?
During 2006, we will observe AGAIN from the sidelines to see if Shimadzu can snag any awards (or even an honorable mention) at Pittcon 2006.... it won't happen unless they resort to bribery! The dated dinosaurs (including those incendiary devices) peddled by Shimadzu should help to seal their fate once again even before the official 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 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.... pick up an issue of "The Application Notebook" which is published quarterly by LC/GC and see for yourself. One will find scientific articles published by most other analytical instrumentation vendors, notably Agilent, Dionex, Jasco, JEOL, LECO, OI Analytical, Perkin-Elmer, Thermo Electron, Varian and Waters. If you're an objective scientist, you should wonder why that is.... why scientific papers utilizing Shimadzu instrumentation are RARELY ever published! Remember: $hit IN, $hit OUT.... that's the kind of science that Shimadzu has been mastering for over a 100 years now!
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: $7M US dollars for the rights to this homepage effective 31 March 2005.
You can pay now or pay later.... it will just cost more later!
If you buy SHITmadzu, then you will have $HIT period!
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