Issue with large review partnership
I review maker tech (think 3d printers and stuff)
Here’s how it went - I need a bit of outside
perspective:
- I reached out to request a review unit.
- someone responded and said yes but it’s a $3K USD machine and my channel is under 10K subs so they asked for two videos which I’m happy to do. The wording was “product exchange”
- I agreed to make 2 videos
- they asked for shipping info
- I provided the info
- this person passed me off to another person to finalize details
- that new person immediately ships machine
- I receive the machine and start using it and filming broll
- 3 days after the machine arrives that new person the says “ so let’s finalize the terms “ and then says that this is a “creator supplier partnership” where I have to make videos for them to post on their channel NOT MY OWN. They also basically said I’d have to send the machine back if we can’t agree
- I respond with how crazy that sounds for a tech reviewer to agree to along with what the original understanding was
I ended up saying “I’m not doing that and the two choices you have are either I do what I already agreed to or you pay me for my wasted time and also pay for the machine to be shipped back to you if you cancel
Please tell me if this is nuts or am I wrong or what