Allen Wrench Reviews for Dummies

Didn't think of hex bit sets didja!

Although we don't get to them very often, fake reviews tend to be one of the pettest of our pet peeves here at the Antisocial Network. The worst, in our opinion, are the freelancers who pretend to have performed a comparison of three, five, even ten of the same item: unless it only cost a nickel, most people just don't buy multiples of the same product. For one, they don't need multiples, for another, there are always other things to spend money on. We ran across a serial fake reviewer at Wizzley.com a while back when he claimed to have Tested to destruction (Ttd) more than $1,000 worth of chop saws. Yeah, sure: the guy just copied "information" from Amazon reviews... the exact same thing he did with another post, "Allen Wrench Set Reviews."

There's no way you can confirm this, but it's a fairly safe bet that the five sets of Allen wrenches Ttd featured are the five most popular at Amazon on the day he wrote his "review." It's exactly the same ploy used by all those freelancer journalists who've managed to get themselves anointed "Onsite Associates" at Amazon. Whatever...

In Ttd's case, he starts out on our bad side by proclaiming that,

"An Allen wrench is almost a must have hand tool to have around. The five best Allen tools reviewed and compared. "

We'd like to think he'd have known enough up front to call them sets, not "tools." But, then, this is the person who (although supposedly from the Midwest) uses weird constructions like,

"An Allen wrench is a surprisingly handy tool to have around. It's amazing what Allen tools come in for and as they're largely inexpensive, they're a worthy buy for the tool bag or home improvement enthusiast. General sold as a mini tool set..."

We'd really like to think that our correspondent knows what they're used for and that they are also called hex wrenches or hex keys, but no... We also think that someone who was familiar with the tool might have introduced such concepts as ball-end hex wrenches or those truly marvelous sets with T handles. But no, Ttd seems a lot more interested in sets that are strung together on a handle (two of the five fit that description). There's no mention of security hex keys, either; and our correspondent never once mentions the range of sizes in the sets. You'd think he'd have noticed...

No, all our Dumbass of the Day did was copy factoids from the manufacturer's descriptions and harvest some comments from people who'd actually used the products and reviewed them at the River. Feh.

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