Belkin’s Fake Amazon Reviews
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:07After it was written about how Belkin’s Amazon.com sales rep Mike Bayard had been paying for fake reviews of his company’s products using Mechanical Turk, hundreds of readers across the Web expressed their outrage.
As a result of the online outcry, Belkin’s president Mark Reynoso has issued a statement apologizing and saying that “this is an isolated incident” and that “Belkin does not participate in, nor does it endorse, unethical practices like this.”
Amazon moved swiftly to remove several reviews on Belkin products it believed were fraudulent. But now fresh evidence of astroturfing has surfaced, by the same Belkin executive.
Links:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/01/20/0146212
http://thedailybackground.com/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/17/166226&tid=187
http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/letter.html
Source: Slashdot
–
Posted by: Geoff Caplan
Related posts:
- Disc Sales: ‘Planet Earth’ Breaks New Amazon Record; HD DVD Staging a Comeback? With a week to go before its dual-format high-def release,...
- Search for Products on Amazon. Com. Great Products, Great Prices <A href=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Ftechnnews-20%2F8002%2F3d9da802-dcdb-4a59-85fe-a49922efcf95&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A> Belkin Amazon Amazon reviews var linkwithin_site_id...
- Interview With Jeff Bezos of Amazon.Com http://geoff-caplan.com, email geoffcaplan@mac.com Belkin Amazon Amazon reviews var linkwithin_site_id...
- Amapedia Amazon has also created its own “product wikipedia” called Amapedia,...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.