One of the positives of the internet (they're plenty of negatives) is that business can be called out and confronted on a scale previously not possible with their mistakes/incompetence/dishonesty and just plain unacceptable practices. Pre internet it was just word of mouth which went no where. Magazines never pointed out dishonesty because that business was one of their advertisers. Harold of Spitfire headers- his product was legit. His business started legit. But after some time he gladly took your money while never intending on delivering your headers. The early internet got the word out- albeit a bit too late to NOT send him $$. In the early 2000s the Mopar Hemi crate engines were self destructing. One of the big of two car mags called the accusations BS and called the accusers basically liars. That was when Hemi crate engine building was taken from a well known competent builder (I forget ) and given to the Cummins division. Those Cummins built Hemis had a super high failure rate. The early internet did spread the word although many still got screwed.