So I bought three Kingston USB 3.0 flash drives. They are the slowest flash drives I've ever owned, so I wrote a negative review of the product. At the time that I wrote my review, there were several other reviews also posted. Now, there are NONE. My review is still viewable privately, but when I go to the actual product page at https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239764 , I get "be the first to review this product," and all the reviews are gone.

Just gone.

Because it's oh, sooo professional for big corporations to sell garbage and then turn around and hide comments that tell people not to buy their garbage.

Anyway, since Newegg was "kind" enough to allow me to actually see the review I posted, I've gone ahead and copied it into my clipboard, and I am now going to post it here, since the dumbshits at Newegg are too goddamn arrogant to allow people to criticize a seller on their pwecious widdle website:

"2 out of 5 eggs Way too slow - Runs at USB 1.1 speeds 08/31/2017

This review is from: Kingston 8GB DataTraveler G4 USB 3.0 Flash Drive (DTIG4/8GB)

Pros:

-Inexpensive
Cons:

-Too Slow: Consistently getting USB 1.1 speeds on this thing using a USB 3.0 front port on my rig. If I plug a 5400RPM external HDD into the same port I get decent USB 3.0 speeds hovering around 150Mb/s, but this "super fast" flash drive gets maybe 10Mb/s.
Other Thoughts:

I bought three of these, all identical 8GB G4 models, and all three of them are equally slow. It's sold as a USB 3.0 stick and it has the characteristic blue USB 3.0 colored port, but the speeds are so horrific that I simply cannot justify spending $7.00 on one of them, and I'm sure not going to recommend it.

Seriously, I don't know what happened to Kingston. They used to make decent quality stuff that actually performed at decent speeds, but now they're selling USB 1.1 sticks and calling them 3.0? Do yourself a favor and find another USB flash drive. This one is just plain not worth the money."

There, that wasn't so bad, now was it? Keeping consumers informed of garbage products seems to be the ultimate taboo in this day and age, but guess what? Consumers are your bread and butter, so your refusal to make quality products combined with your refusal to show reviews that don't give glowing praise to your fucking company is the reason that so many corporations are going down the toilet. It isn't because customers are whiny little bitches, it's because YOU have chosen to stroke your own fragile little ego rather than serve the customers who pay your bills. YOU are the problem, and silencing your customers will NOT make the problems that YOU CREATED go away.

If you want your customers to stop treating you like shit, then [b]YOU[/b] are going to have to stop being a bunch of arrogant, lazy, good-for-nothing, self-entitled brats and actually SERVE THE CUSTOMER.

EDIT:

And the review is back up. Interesting. Was it the stuff I said in my journals, was it that my journal about this on of the furry sites I frequent was linked to on Twitter, or was it just that the site had some problems? I don't know, but I'm glad the thing's back up again.​