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Belkin's President Apologizes For Faked Reviews

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. It's 7:22AM CST... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And the media verbal fellatio of Obama has crescendoed to a whole new level. Since we're being told constantly that MLK, Jr.'s dream has now been realized, I'm wondering if we can now dispense with the constantly-moving target called Affirmative Action. You know, since we've reached true equality and all, race-based preferential treatment should no longer be required...

    1. Re:It's 7:22AM CST... by Hordeking · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And the media verbal fellatio of Obama has crescendoed to a whole new level. Since we're being told constantly that MLK, Jr.'s dream has now been realized, I'm wondering if we can now dispense with the constantly-moving target called Affirmative Action. You know, since we've reached true equality and all, race-based preferential treatment should no longer be required...

      Actually, this rather dashes MLK's "dream". As I recall, it made reference to people getting along based on who they were, not the color of their skin. I pretty strongly Obama got elected most likely because he's black (and not even full-blooded black). He's a media darling who will never, ever be able to do wrong.

      Also of note: He campaigned on a platform of "change" (the sort of change is left unspecified, but it's Change, dammit!). However, if you will notice, he has a strong penchant for selecting former Clinton administration figures for his appointments.

      Change indeed. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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  2. Time to start by sleeponthemic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Outsourcing my mod points.

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  3. Astroturfers ought to be whupped by abaruz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Astroturfers ought to be whupped, and whupped good.

    On a completely different subject that yet strangely remains on-topic, has anyone heard of the TOMOS requirements mangement system at ReachSimplicity.com? I've heard tell it's a marvelous way to get your quality assurance on track!

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  5. Re:"I can truthfully say I'm very sorry . . . by deadlinegrunt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I believe the point your are making can be succinctly made by Bush:

    "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

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