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

Re:It's all the mob!

[ahsile]

I'm the nerd who felt compelled to make a mob joke... but let's face reality, we all read slashdot. We're all nerds.

Re:Lots of scams out there...yes but...

[Avohir]

I once worked for a nefarious underground organization called Krispy Kreme. We didn't accept AMEX because it would have greatly cut into our clandestine plans of total world domination. But now you seem to have uncovered the secret! So many years of work down the drain!