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Samsung Accused of Paying For Negative HTC Reviews
judgecorp writes "Samsung Taiwan has been accused of paying to have negative reviews of HTC products put online by students who recommended Samsung devices instead. The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission is investigating Samsung's advertising agency in Taiwan, and Samsung Taiwan has responded by cancelling all Internet marketing."
That there is such a thing as the Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
... how much HTC paid for this accusation?
"With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone."
The amazon situation is far worse and more widespread. I actually left a review for a book, a rather scathing one pointing out all the of problems with it. It was a scholarly book, not fiction. The book had dozens of 5 star reviews but was riddled with so many errors as to make it 1) virtually unreadable and 2) horrendously incorrect even to first year students and pretty much anyone with a brain cell.
Within hours I had hundreds of "unhelpful" votes followed by a steady stream of profanity thrown at me on my comment. Amazon removed my comment for review 6 times before putting it back due to complaints by the author. Then 8 years later the "author" and I use that term loosely, wrote another book and stuck a link to my review inside it with 12 pages of profanity laced verbiage regarding how bad a person I was and what I did with my mother. The author then posted a link to his new book in my comment so that I would be aware of its existence.
I've since removed my review because I'm frankly sick of the notifications that it's been hammered again. As it turned out though, the majority of the reviews were the authors friends and various fake accounts. It's so widespread on amazon these days I dont even read reviews anymore.
The kicker is the book was a scholarly look at the peaceful proliferation of Buddhism in the world..........
I can vouch for that, I signed up for a cash for review service, I get $2 for making positive Android reviews and occasional $3 for Samsung reviews. It pays similar to how bulk email spamming pays, course that's like 25 cents per hundred thousand or more depending on product being spammed.
if people are interested here is a "top 12 list" of companies that will pay you to review products, apps, os, etc.
http://www.blogstash.com/12-best-get-paid-to-review-sites-to-make-money-with/
every review either video, or written product review you post link, it gets verified and part of your account stats,
most places works similar to adsense on payouts. minimum of $100.00 in the account and they'll either send a check or direct deposit into paypal for you.
I get about $30-$50 from reviews to paypal, and I use that money to pay for my pc gaming wants :P
its shit, and make sure you always use a throw away email, I use: http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
couple hours of bullshit reviews for 'free money', most half smart people should realize that online reviews are all bullshit.
even movie critic reviews online like tgwtg website is all bullshit, cause it's all paid for work. Either for sites like tgwtg is ad based revenue and some product reviews from other contributors to crappy blog sites that get paid to write written reviews for products...
the biggest thing any sane person should know is do not trust ANY online review. most are paid for and most are bullshit
He was informative. The rules of modding are that you don't mod based on whether you agree or not, you mod based on the quality/usefulness of the information provided. Some idiots mod down everything they disagree with so effectively they are trying to censor others. That would make /. much worse. Modding up because you agree would have a similar though less harmful effect. Less harmful in that low modded comments tend to get filtered out. If you'd prefer a site where nothing was posted except what you agreed with then you should start your own.
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