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mrtn400 · 01-17-09

Too bad I already won't buy anything Belkin, except for basic USB cables and phone cases.

SporkofdooM · 01-17-09

I always steer customers away from belkin products, they just kind of sketch me out. That and they are the most returned routers from my personal experience

dlee7283 · 01-17-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by SporkofdooM

I always steer customers away from belkin products, they just kind of sketch me out. That and they are the most returned routers from my personal experience

Their USB Wifi sticks aren't horrible, but anything else I would go to linksys

**wierdo124** · 01-18-09

I'm ashamed to own a Belkin router

-iceblade^ · 01-18-09

thats low.

i used to respect them even though they were overpriced. no longer

Higgins · 01-18-09

I own a belkin draft-N router, only because i only had to pay $40 for it. I don't any N cards but its MUCH faster than my G router.

Havent had any problems but everything else i have is netgear.

Playapplepie · 01-18-09

Lulz

skydeaner · 01-18-09

I buy belkin products all the time. I will never regret it, they are absolutely amazing and perform better than anyone else's.

Where's my money for that?

Bunnywinkles · 01-18-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by skydeaner

I buy belkin products all the time. I will never regret it, they are absolutely amazing and perform better than anyone else's.

Where's my money for that?

This is OCN, You owe all that have to read that $0.65 now

hiiyah777 · 01-19-09

Ha ha.

This is the router in question for that particular post.

And Belkin's President even released a statement regarding this:

Quote:

Belkin has always held itself to the highest standards of corporate ethics and its employees to the highest standards of personal integrity. Similarly, we support our online user community in discussion and reviews of our products, whether the commentary is good or bad. 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.

Belkin does not participate in, nor does it endorse, unethical practices like this. We know that people look to online user reviews for unbiased opinions from fellow users and instances like this challenge the implicit trust that is placed in this interaction. We regard our responsibility to our user community as sacred, and we are extremely sorry that this happened.

We want to stress that this is an isolated incident and to re-instill trust with you, we have taken the following courses of action:

- We’ve acted swiftly to remove all associated postings from the Mechanical Turk system.
- We’re working closely with our online channel partners to ensure that any reviews that may have been placed due to these postings have been removed.

It’s also important to recognize that our retail partners had no knowledge of, or participation in, these postings.

Once again, we apologize for this occurrence, and we will work earnestly to regain the trust we have lost.

Sincerely,

Mark Reynoso
President, Belkin

Belkin has also posted this letter on their website.

Source

Ha ha, this guy even looks like a tool!

Also, updates to the story can be found here.

I find this story fascinating. +Rep to the OP for a good find!

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