thedailybackground.com - 1/18/2009
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Update: Belkin’s president responds to The Daily Background’s report here . ( Update: Welcome to Slashdot, Digg, Engadget, Gizmodo readers! The latest is, I’ve heard from Belkin’s public relations department and I am expecting a formal comment to come out from them relatively soon, so stick ...
engadget.com - 1/19/2009
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engadget.com —
Back in our day, if you weren't busy
walking up uphill both ways, you'd write your own...
dang fake reviews on Amazon, but apparently Belkin 's Michael Bayard -- or a clever impostor looking to smear the man's good name -- decided it'd be easier and ...
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Belkin rep hiring folks to write fake reviews on Amazon?
engadget.com - 1/19/2009
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engadget.com —
Remember how Michael Bayard, a Belkin Business Development
representative, was apparently hiring people from Mechanical Turk to...
post glowing reviews of Belkin products on Amazon and elsewhere? Well, we just received an apologetic letter tucked ...
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Belkin pleads for mercy over paid Amazon reviews deception
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Belkin rep hiring folks to write fake reviews on Amazon?
Engadget —
... Back in our day, if you weren't busy walking up uphill both ways, you'd write your own dang fake reviews on Amazon, but apparently Belkin's Michael Bayard -- or a clever impostor looking to smear the man's good name -- decided it'd be easier and totally ...
Belkin Employee Caught Soliciting Positive Reviews for Pay
Maximum PC —
... According to an ad posted on the site, Michael Bayard, Business Development Representative at Belkin, offered to pay users 65 cents for each positive 5/5 review they posted, instructing them to "write as if you own the product and are using it." The ad even asks users to look for negative reviews and mark them as "not helpful." ...
Belkin Issues Apology For Paid Review Incident
Overclockers Club news Feed —
... Belkin issued an apology Sunday for what it calls "an isolated incident" involving one of its employees soliciting positive reviews via the Amazon Mechanical Turk site. Apparently the requester, Michael Bayard, is a business development representative at Belkin. He posted a request on the Mechanical Turk for people to post positive reviews of a Belkin product on Amazon.com and give it a 5/5 and then mark any negative reviews as not helpful. The request offered people 65 cents per review and stated it was not necessary to have owned or used the product. ...
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