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Old 01-17-09   #1 (permalink)
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That’s a request from somebody named Mike Bayard to review a product and “give [it] a 100% rating (as high as possible).” It doesn’t matter if the reviewer doesn’t own the product or has never tried it– the requester has helpfully written, “Write as if you own the product and are using it.” It even goes a step further, asking the Mechanical Turk user to “Mark any other negative reviews as “not helpful” once you post yours.”

Users are paid 65 cents for every positive review they leave. There are dozens of these requests from this Mike Bayard guy on Mechanical Turk.

Sounds like somebody reallllllllly wants this item to get high ratings. So what is the product? The link is to an Amazon.com listing for a Belkin router which has consistently gotten bad reviews in the past from users who say that the product is “loaded with Bugs, goes on & off whenever it feels like, and comes at a hefty price.”
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Hey guess what, I had a Belkin router that was loaded with bugs and went on and off at its own free will! Then they fixed the firmware and it lived happily ever after.
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I have heard of this in other industries. I try to do the same thing when I go out. I send in some friends to talk me up to the ladies so by the time I get there, buddah....
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I have heard of this in other industries. I try to do the same thing when I go out. I send in some friends to talk me up to the ladies so by the time I get there, buddah....


I just go out and impress them myself, then my girlfriend gets mad and i have to go impress her... xD

I stopped buying belkin after a new router died after a month and when i tried to RMA they said it was "Physically Damaged".... After that i bought a Netgear that is still (barely) kicking after surviving a power surge.
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I just go out and impress them myself, then my girlfriend gets mad and i have to go impress her... xD

I stopped buying belkin after a new router died after a month and when i tried to RMA they said it was "Physically Damaged".... After that i bought a Netgear that is still (barely) kicking after surviving a power surge.
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Hey guess what, I had a Belkin router that was loaded with bugs and went on and off at its own free will! Then they fixed the firmware and it lived happily ever after.
how do we know your not getting paid to say that?! :
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Holy crap, $0.65 is one of the highest paying jobs you can get on mechanical turk.

Considering Amazon runs the service I wonder how they're going to respond to this.
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