pounce;535752 Wrote: > I don't trust any reviews on Amazon unless they are "Amazon Verified > Purchase". Too many fanboys or haters posting nonsense reviews without > ever buying the product.
It's not just fanboys and haters. There are people who get paid by the publisher to write positive book reviews on Amazon. Then there is also the Kindle one-star campaign that is currently attacking author Michael Lewis for the fact that his new book is not yet available for the Kindle. (The Squeezebox Touch may soon be getting one-star ratings if there's not a Kindle version of it for $9.99.) > The warning flags for this poster was they just joined this forum, their > first post was asking for people to go to Amazon and add reviews and > they linked to a product page for a vendor other than Amazon. Call me > silly... You're not silly. I have a blog that frequently gets hit with link spam, so I am quick to delete any comments that look spammy. I fully admit that my creation of this thread hits the red flags. (For the record, my post above was 'my third' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/search.php?searchid=3786195), but any posts within the first few days should be suspect.) In my defense, I present the following evidence: 1. Amazon.com sells all the other Squeezeboxes, so it is almost certain they will sell the Touch when it becomes available to most online retailers. 2. It is not unreasonable to encourage reviews on the website of a big name retailer like Amazon.com, Crutchfield, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. It is the presence of the no-name seller on Amazon that is making my request suspicious. 3. An hour before posting the request for reviews on this forum, 'I posted a similar request' (http://www.amazon.com/User-reviews-needed/forum/Fx1JA1LDKD0RA6Z/Tx1255VRJ69H6X0/1/ref=cm_cd_dp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&s=electronics&asin=B002LARRDA&store=electronics) in the Customer Discussions section Amazon.com's Squeezebox Touch page under the username "JP". 4. From that Customer Discussion, you can click on my username to view 'my Amazon.com profile' (http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1CJJ1R2EL5EP/). From that profile, you can confirm that JP's nickname is hawaiijim, which is my username here. You can also view all my product reviews that go back to June 1, 2000, as well as my Listmania Lists, etc, demonstrating that I am a legitimate Amazon.com customer. 5. I don't know how to prove that I am not related to C4DEALZ, because it is impossible to prove a negative, but if I was there's a good chance it would be mentioned on my Amazon.com profile. -- hawaiijim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hawaiijim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37570 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77369 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
