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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."

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  1. I've never used belkin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because they suck huge ass.

    In other news, niggers.

  2. Re:Ah, yes, Belkin... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Ok, Cowboy, you do her first. Remember the plan," she heard the
    still- unnamed leader speak. Kathleen felt the bag being removed from
    over her body, and she was pulled around on the car seat until her
    legs extended far out into the middle of the car and her back was
    against the backrest of the huge seat. She struggled, but could not
    loosen the handcuffs or move the blindfold. Suddenly she felt the
    nightshirt ripped from her body. She screamed through the gag, but the
    man only chuckled. He looked down at her nearly prone, naked form.

    Long, slender legs led to a pair of wide, but not too wide,
    hips.

    Her femininity was covered by a fine patch of curly brown
    hair. A trim waist and tummy led to what was perhaps Kathleen's
    proudest asset. Her large breasts seemed almost out of place on her
    otherwise petite frame. She had been embarrassed when they first
    started sprouting while she was just in sixth grade. Through junior
    and senior high, they continued to grow, until now she went through
    life with a 37D bra size. They were perfectly conical, with large
    pronounced areoles and thick, prominent nipples. They heaved with fear
    now, the nipples erecting in the cool air, not through any sexual
    excitement that Kathleen felt. Her slim neck and long brown hair framed
    an attractive, though not extremely beautiful face. Around the gag her
    lips compressed.

    The man named Cowboy quickly dropped his slacks. Kathleen felt
    him reach between her legs and probe her vagina, feeling the dry
    fingers invade her most private areas. He wormed two fingers around
    and around, trying to stir her up. She squirmed at his touch, trying
    to move away, but found it impossible as one other man held her
    tightly by the shoulders. The next thing she felt was a large, erect
    cock poking at the entrance to her vagina.

    She tried to clamp her leg together, but could not. She felt a
    pair of hands grab each ankle and slip some sort of smooth, cool rope
    around them and tie them apart to opposite ends of the car's interior
    width. The cock at her slit pushed itself it slowly, and Kathleen was
    aghast to find herself becoming stimulated at this situation. Slowly,
    then faster, the cock began to pick up speed, thrusting in and out,
    not roughly, but with greater force than she had ever encouraged with
    her husband. HER HUSBAND!! Suddenly Kathleen froze.

    What would CmdrTaco be able to do about this? He was 10,000
    miles away.

    How could he help? She groaned inwardly. She endured several
    more minutes of the thick male member invading her channel. Then,
    though the haze, she heard the leader speak once again.

    "OK, enough already. Finish it off!" he said gruffly. Abruptly
    Kathleen felt the pounding stop and the penis was withdrawn. She was
    puzzled.

    Seconds ticked by. She though she could hear a light slapping
    noise a few inches away, and was completely at a loss. Then it
    happened.

    SPLAT... SPLAT... SPLAT... SPLAT... SPLAT... SPLAT.

    Kathleen was horrified to feel the wet splashing on her face
    and cheeks. She could taste the wet saltiness on her upper lip. "HE
    CAME ON MY FACE!" she thought, shuddering at it. The white streams of
    Erik's ejaculate slowly dripped from her, dropping slowly and wetly
    onto the upper slopes of her breasts.

    Kathleen had never, ever, allowed any man to do that. On
    occasion, she would perform oral sex for CmdrTaco, and at his
    insistence, allow him to ejaculate in her mouth, but always had a
    tissue ready to spit the semen into. She thought it distasteful and
    disgusting. And now, a complete stranger had raped her and ejaculated
    all over her face. She could feel herself blush and redden at the
    thought. She felt, rather than saw, the flashes of light and noise
    that indicated a camera going off. "OH GOD, They've taken my picture!"
    she thought, horrified.

    She had no time for grief, though, as another hard penis was
    attacking her, and again Kathle

  3. Re:isn't the statement contraditroy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    TOLERATE

    Learn to spell, cumstain.

  4. Tell me why astroturfing is unethical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tell me why astroturfing is unethical.

    Is it a lazy approach to advertising? Yes, it's lazy. But I'm not fully convinced it's unethical.

  5. Re:I enjoy at least 1 Belkin product by TheRealMindChild · · Score: -1, Troll

    You had them run a WHOLE NEW LINE to your house... and you never even tried changing the phone cable?

    You, sir, are an asshole.

    --

    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson