Belkin Paying Mechanical Turk Users to Write Good Reviews on Amazon
I just contacted Belkin to confirm but this doesn’t look good. A site called The Daily Background found evidence that Belkin Bizdev guy, Michael Bayard, is paying folks 65 cents to write good things about Belkin routers. Why? I’m not sure. I sure didn’t mind Belkin routers in the first place and 65 cents isn’t a lot of money for a paragraph. Maybe a flat buck or a USB hub instead? Is false praise really that cheap?
Here is one of the requests on the Mechanical Turk:
I sure hope this is just a lower level junior guy getting a little excited and not a wholesale, nefarious plan for online shilling.
I’m positive this isn’t the first time this has happened but this is the first time I’ve seen it so egregiously advertised. Here is Bayard on LinkedIn:
