Cameras Online? How The Shysters Work

earlylate writes "How do certain photo and electronics dealers thrive despite widely-circulated warnings by unhappy customers? According to a new investigative website "many apparently separate and competing dealers are actually jointly owned and run" and "go to great lengths to conceal their locations and management." Further, some comparison-shopping sites "are in effect marketing partners with their affiliates," the very dealers they rate. There's a contest based on the suspicious "flood of similar, glowing reviews some dealers receive," as well as links to several sources of information and advice for the careful online shopper."

Comments

It's all the mob!

[ahsile]

Don't mess with them... I tried once, it wasn't pretty. I still have to move every couple months so they don't find my location...

This post alone will give me away, I need to move again... but I needed to warn you all!

Vigilante justice

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Someone should go around and take pictures of all the proprietors and store-fronts of these scammy camera salesman and post them on a website somewhere so the rest of us can be informed....

If you'd like to volunteer, let me know, I have a great camera I can give you for a low-low price, that would be perfect for the job.

What are you,

[2names]

the British Mob?

Henchman, "I say, that scoundrel has surfaced in the United States. Shall we whack him?"

Don Worcestershire, "Quite."