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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pete_gamby" data-source="post: 3370910" data-attributes="member: 76050">Some of the sources supply pretty vague information. For example, would any reasonable person believe that Alpen could do what it does on a sub $1 million turnover? A few words into Google and you can find an interview that gives a far more accurate and better sourced figure - and they even quote that same interview as a source in the report!Similarly, they quote a Hoovers estimate for Opticron's turnover. Again, how we could employ 15 staff here, half a dozen in the US, develop our own products, advertise them, provide our dealers with a margin and still make a profit on the figure they quote is beyond my knowledge!If a research report can't get the simple stuff right, can you trust it to have the more complex analysis and, most importantly, the conclusions accurate?Gijs - I'm sure you found some nuggets in there but surely a research report should be gold all the way through - not leave the reader having to do his or her own research to find out which of the nuggets are not Fools Gold...?Cheers, Pete</blockquote>