Belkin business rep gets caught paying for fake product ratings

January 20, 2009

Some business representative at Belkin was caught paying people (through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) to write product reviews with 100% ratings for different Belkin products – even if they had never used the product.  The article comes complete with a picture of the guy.  This is all I have to say…

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One Comment

  1. Karl
    Posted April 4, 2009 at 12:56 am | Permalink

    It’s not honest for them to do that. It’s like cheating people…I also have Product Ratings Website

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  1. By devinsblog » Blog Archive » Belkin’s response to the fake reviews on January 20, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    [...] employee at Belkin was found on Mechanical Turk shelling out money to people that would write a good review for a Belkin product whether or not [...]

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