Look have rich they all became in often a pretty short time, so rich that they constant travel over the planet to shop and go to shows.
Reviewing isn't a money bandwagon unless you are very, very good at it
It's not, period. To do a
proper review, it can take many hours or even days. To become rich, you would have to constantly be reviewing something and getting paid big bucks to do it.
Of course everybody's definition of "rich" is probably different but I would have to earn a lot more than $80/hour, 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year to consider myself "rich" - especially after paying taxes, the mortgage/taxes/insurance on my house, monthly utilities (gas, electric, water, Internet, phones), health insurance premiums, prescriptions, and food. Then there are the fuel and insurance costs for my truck (and it's 10 years old). And that's just for me. If I still had kids under my roof, my expenses would be considerably higher. And that did not even count beer money!
To review a power supply, for example, you need a facility, a good oscilloscope and power supply analyzer. You need the technical training - all that takes money. If reviewing TVs, that would take different test equipment and training. If reviewing software, different hardware and training.
If the reviewer is getting rich off those reviews, I would not trust the reviews to be unbiased, complete, or honest.
If your one of those reviewers they send you the best of the best part they have in the house to make sure you make a super review about their products.
Then are those truly "proper" reviews? Even if the reviewers and sites are sincere, honest, and properly trained and equipped - as I am sure they are here at TPU for example, there is always the chance that review sample sent from the manufacturer has been optimally tweaked to score good. Regardless, I am sure the reviewers are NOT getting rich from doing those reviews.
Look at how Consumers Reports does reviews, for example. First, they send "secret shoppers" out to Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon, etc. and they
buy several (not just one) samples off the shelf just as you or I would do. This ensures they are not getting "cherry picked" samples from the manufacturer. The greater the number of samples to test, the more accurate the findings.
They have highly trained engineers and technicians in fully equipment labs and testing facilities who not only test the products, but they compare them with competing products. They accept no advertising money from any manufacturer to ensure they are not being influenced, and that there is not even the
appearance of any influence in their ratings.
Plus, they revisit the product after a year or two to see how it has held up after extended use to get a good picture of its reliability.
Also, they survey 100s of 1000s of subscribers of their reports to see how "normal people" like the products after a couple year's use - if there have been any breakdowns, and if so, how did the repair go?
Now those are proper reviews - or at least as about as proper as you can get.