Belkin's President Apologizes For Faked Reviews

remove office writes "After I wrote 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."

Comments

"I can truthfully say I'm very sorry . . .

[ZorbaTHut]

. . . that you found out. So very, very sorry. Luckily, we've stopped doing it now! So you can stop looking. There's nothing else to find."

"Goddammit, I told you to stop! I'm sorry you found out about this one also!"

Yeah, I'm sorry too, Belkin. After the whole spam router thing I stopped using your products for a few years, but then thought, hey, sometimes people screw up. Mistakes were made, I haven't heard anything bad about them for a while. Why not?

Well, now I know why not. One time is a mistake, two times is a failure to learn, three times is waiting for you to let your guard down to sneak a fast one past again. Won't make that mistake again!

Is this real or fake like the product reviews?

[VinylRecords]

How do we know this was the real President of the company and that it wasn't some actor hired to do a fake apology?

Re:I enjoy at least 1 Belkin product

[morgan_greywolf]

Hey! What's that green paper you just stuck in your pocket!

Re:RTFA PLEASE!

[morgan_greywolf]

Oh, sure. Just go ahead and ruin all of our Belkin-bashing fun with your "logic" and "reason"! Pffft! :-P

dispicable!

[hAckz0r]

Somebody in the MS Intellectual Property department must be asleep on the job. I could have sworn that that Microsoft had a patent on that particular 'business method'...

I loved this article 5 Stars

[Registered Coward v2]

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Five stars.

CDR Taco, where's my 65 cents?

He gets paid $.65 for every apology he makes!

[arfonrg]

He gets paid $.65 for every apology he makes!

Re:This is why scruples are good

[Anonymous Coward]

But Belkin has not even hung him dry. They have not fired the guy, as far as I can tell.

What the fuck, who's product do I have to say sucks to get a guy fired around here?!?

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[Migraineman]

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Re:I enjoy at least 1 Belkin product

[JCSoRocks]

All of us are smart enough to understand that a cable is a cable.

Except when it's a MONSTER CABLE. Nothing says bad ass awesome like a MONSTER CABLE. My cable cost 10 times more than yours so it must be the ultimate power in the universe. MONSTER!