Belkin's President Apologizes For Faked Reviews

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @01:05AM from the genuine-naugahyde dept.

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."

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Ah, yes, Belkin... by SIGBUS · 2009-01-20 01:07 · Score: 5, Informative

...the same folks that gave us the spam router. Why am I not surprised?

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Re:I enjoy at least 1 Belkin product by Fieryphoenix · 2009-01-20 02:16 · Score: 2, Informative

You know, if like me you'd got the original G15 and not the updated/downgraded one, you'd have both the huge number of keys and the LCD. When I got mine, I thought the LCD would be useless, but it turns out to be the best part in practice.