I became frustrated with CR for a lot of already stated reasons. They became too political, they bombarded my email with urges to sign this or that petition..or asking for donations. They also reviewed things that cost 10 times more than what I'd ever pay and ignored the less expensive ones many do purchase.
They are good at exposing fraud, decoding what's in our food and medicine. I wish they would do more of that.
I personally do not care about Tesla, or a $1000.00 blender, vacuum cleaner etc. The things I do care about they don't give the whole story in the magazine... I have to subscribe to "onlineCR" in order to get the full story. To me..that's marketing "stuff".
I was up for renewal awhile back and decided to call CR and discuss matters. I got a very young person who kept telling me "I understand". Finally I just said... "please be quiet and let me finish...can you do that??"... The young person was silent for a second and then started with the company line again.
Bottom line... I did renew for another year... but only to keep up with the food and medicine safety issues. I take everything else with a grain of salt.
