GadgetsAndGifts4U

Pitching a story or product sample

But first here are a few disclosures about how GadgetsAndGifts4U does business:

• Submitting a product idea for my consideration is simple and it’s year long. Just send me, via e-mail a detailed press release along with a Hi-Res jpg (300 dpi) of the product directly to rbassave@mindspring.com.

• As you might imagine, I receive hundreds of new product press releases. Be assured I do read them all and respond as quickly as possible. Please include the suggested retail price of your product and the availability date, manufacturer’s website address, if the product is currently available, and where the product can be purchased both in the store and/or online.

• Once I decide what to review, I then borrow evaluation products from these companies in order to review it for GadgetsAndGifts4U. When done, I’ll return it all or destroy it or donate it to charity if requested by the manufacturer. (Exceptions: software and very inexpensive items that manufacturers don’t want back.) Shipping address information is available upon request. Please include return product shipping information.

• GadgetsAndGifts4U pays full price for the products and services used to operate the site.

• When I travel to any events hosted or sponsored by companies I cover, I pay my own airfare and lodging. I don’t accept speaker fees from any company I might cover here.

• In some cases I am briefed about upcoming news under a non-disclosure agreement that states I won’t cover the news until a specific day and time–the launch of a new product, for instance. But these NDA agreements, which were rife in the days of print technology journalism, are of diminishing importance, and I don’t expect to sign many of them.

• I don’t invest in the stock of any company I might cover.

• I wish it went without saying, but companies who advertise on Technologizer receive no special treatment in editorial coverage; those who don’t advertise aren’t penalized in any way. In my 25+ years in this business, I’ve never changed so much as a syllable to curry favor with an advertiser or potential advertiser and I never will.

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