> Belkin's President: "So, it was with great surprise and dismay when we discovered that one of our employees may have posted a number of queries on the Amazon Mechanical Turk website inviting users to post positive reviews of Belkin products in exchange for payment."
But how do I trust them enough to know that he's telling the truth?
> But how do I trust them enough to know that he's telling the truth?
You can go on their behaviour in the past. In 2003, Belkin sold a router that would occasionally throw away the response to http requests, and replace them with an advert for a Belkin product -- http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/ms...
What's missing from the response is that they took action to fire the person responsible.
I read the response: it's wrapped into a lot of nice, vague, non-specific, non-binding stuff. It's well written by a PR department and may fool the average joe.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 33.3 ms ] threadBut how do I trust them enough to know that he's telling the truth?
You can go on their behaviour in the past. In 2003, Belkin sold a router that would occasionally throw away the response to http requests, and replace them with an advert for a Belkin product -- http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/ms...
More details here: http://67.43.12.89/~cabalama/weblog/art_49.html and here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/0031204
I think Belkin are lying. Deceit is part of their corporate culture.
I read the response: it's wrapped into a lot of nice, vague, non-specific, non-binding stuff. It's well written by a PR department and may fool the average joe.
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