Bedwetting Store and Malem Bedwetting Alarm Reviews: July 2013

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Malem: Very Strong Deceit on Internet Review Sites and Blogs

Malem and the Bedwetting Store continue to be unethical and cheat customers. This blog will provide details for many more blog entries relating to Malem and Bedwetting Stores deceit and other malicious practices, all of which have been recorded.

First, it is appropriate to reveal that the Product B mentioned and analyzed in

http://bedwettingalarmsdeceitcatcher.blogspot.com/2013/07/deceit-on-internet-shopping-reviews.html

http://bedwettingalarmsdeceitcatcher.blogspot.com/2013/07/deceit-on-internet-product-blogs.html and

http://bedwettingalarmsdeceitcatcher.blogspot.com/2013/07/deceit-on-internet-product-blogs-strong.html

and also below in corresponding blogs, is the Malem bedwetting alarm product.

Starting with the reviews of Malem on Amazon, it is our opinion that 31% of the total reviews for Malem may have been biased by the Bedwetting Store. In other words, they may be fake reviews placed there by Chummie and/or its associates. Of these, about 88% were very positive reviews, which would be perfectly understandable if they were biased by the Bedwetting Store. We also noticed that many negative opinions that we saw in 2012 and later had been removed. This would also certainly look good for Malem and the Bedwetting Store, and we cannot imagine it happening without the Bedwetting Stores instigation.

Relating to product blogs, we did a fresh Google search for Malem and Bedwetting Store blogs, and looked at the results to identify what we would regard as advertisements for Malem on various sites that were displayed. We found 87 of the 134 total sites on the three pages to be blatant advertisements for Malem and the Bedwetting Store. Almost all appeared to be sites run by individuals or small groups, who were trying to make a buck. We did include in the total any sites “owned” by the Bedwetting Store which include National Incontinence, Just Home Medical and Just Bedwetting Alarms, and also any sites that were critical of Malem and the Bedwetting Store on these pages which were not included in the "blogs for Malem and the Bedwetting Store." So to have almost 62% approval from small blogs/sites is a great display of buying positive endorsements.

These confirm our opinion that Malem and the Bedwetting Store deal in false advertising, cheating customers and have no credibility. It also reinforces our opinion that these "reviews" and product "opinions" should be ignored.

Expect more about Malem and the Bedwetting Stores abuse of the internet and continuing deceit.

Shame on Malem and the Bedwetting Store for these cheap tactics and tricky deceptive advertising schemes. As a leader in bedwetting, the example they have set for others is shallow and a disgrace.

To truly compare Malem with all relevant competitors in today’s marketplace, look at http://www.urinealarms.com/Wired_Alarm_Chart.html . This is the most comprehensive set of data and facts about bedwetting alarms that we have seen. Malem does not fare well. This explains why Malem and the Bedwetting Store resort to deceit and propaganda to promote the Malem bedwetting alarm!

The Bedwetting Store is the only seller who advertises and continues to sell the Malem Bedwetting Alarm. All other sellers have either realized the truth about the Malem Bedwetting Alarm or have abandoned it, but the Bedwetting Store continues its deceit.

Note:
Malem(TM) and the Bedwetting Store have a very large number of entries about their deceit in this blog. There are so many more entries and much more serious bad activities attributable to Malem and the Bedwetting Store, so that Malem and the Bedwetting Store have significantly more entries than all other manufacturers combined. You can read all of the Malem and Bedwetting Store deceit entries on this blog.

Malem and the Bedwetting Store have also been given a 0-stars blog of their own so that its many examples of deceit can stand out by themselves. The Malem Alarm and Bedweting Store blog is at
http://bedewttingstoredeceit.blogspot.com/

Malem: Very Strong Deceit on Internet Review Sites and Blogs

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Deceit on the Internet: Product Blogs --- Strong Deceit

In our blog entry dated July 20^th, we discussed how Product Blogs provided a strong opportunity for deceit. We decided to do some basic data analysis to see how strongly product blogs were used to spread the manufacturers’ message in such a way that the manufacturer affected the outcome of the “review.”
We did a Google search for the two bedwetting alarms A and B which were candidates for strong deceit. We did not include in our count any sites that were explicitly used for selling the product (like Amazon.com), or sites openly run by the manufacturer (like XXXXX.com or XXXXX.blogspot.com) or a site openly selling the product. We did include in our count blogs and sites being used by the manufacturer and not revealing the manufacturer’s ownership of the site, which either served as a direct display of the manufacturers’ advertising, or did the same indirectly as an “opinion” or “review” by the owner of the site or blog.
Some blog owners were reasonably open about their policies. To quote one site/blog:
“This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog.”
That’s pretty straight forward. But our experience with the content of every site/blog was that the compensation received did influence the review in a very positive manner.
Searching the first 6 pages of the Google search results, our count for these possibly phony reviews was:
Product A: 29 biased reviews
Product B: 25 biased reviews
These numbers did not surprise us knowing what these products were, and who their owners were.
We do want to point out that these possibly fake reviews account for about one-half (fifty percent) of the first five or six pages of search results under Google search.
This is abominable in our opinion, that these manufacturers should be overwhelming the internet with such deceitful opinions and reviews, reviews that have been paid for or “sponsored” by them. It is also indicative of the lack of care or respect of the public by these manufacturers, who may do anything they can get away with to sell their products, including the excessive deceit that we could count.

Note:
Malem(TM) and the Bedwetting Store have a very large number of entries about their deceit in this blog. There are so many more entries and much more serious bad activities attributable to Malem and the Bedwetting Store, so that Malem and the Bedwetting Store have significantly more entries than all other manufacturers combined. You can read all of the Malem and Bedwetting Store deceit entries on this blog.

Malem and the Bedwetting Store have also been given a 0-stars blog of their own so that its many examples of deceit can stand out by themselves. The Malem Alarm and Bedwetting Store blog is at
http://bedewttingstoredeceit.blogspot.com/

Deceit on the Internet: Product Blogs --- Strong Deceit

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Malem: Strong Deceit by Perversion

Malem and the Bedwetting Store are champions of deceit in the bedwetting industry, and have taken their deceit to a whole new high (or low) with their false advertising which has become apparent on Google search. Now that negative results about Malem and the Bedwetting Store are showing up on Page 1 of a Google search, it appears that Malem and the Bedwetting Store are trying to get some promotional advantage out of the negative reviews by creating webpages using the keywords Malem, Bedwetting Store and Reviews. When clicked on, leads to a full-fledged Malem advertisement full of its usual and traditional deceit.

When doing a Google search for Malem bedwetting alarm, the following Google search result is shown:

1. Review of the Malem Bedwetting Alarm - On Bedwetting

www.onbedwetting.com/malem-review.php

by Will Rayment - The Malem bedwetting alarm is rugged and sturdy. It was highly ... Book Reviews: Waking Up Dry ... <a href="http://www.onbedwetting.com">On Bedwetting</a>

The link is nothing more than a full page of lies, deceit and trickery by the Bedwetting Store to promote the Malem bedwetting alarm.

The Bedwetting Store and its shill(s) have clogged up internet search results about Malem bedwetting alarm. If a reader clicks on this blog link expecting an honest review about the Malem bedwetting alarm, they are instead shown a full advertising blurb in favor of Malem, with the same old deceitful claims that the Bedwetting Store is known for.

The shills at the Bedwetting Store have cleverly come up with a false identity of one Mr. W.J. Rayment, who claims to be the owner of the website and the content writer. Carefully reading between the lines makes it immediately visible that the content is the same with a slight spin to the content to the Malem bedwetting alarm description on the Bedwetting Store. We consider this to be a sneaky and desperate attempt by the Bedwetting Store to "fool" readers. This confirms very poor ethics.

It is a shame that the Bedwetting Store continues to pull off dirty tactics like this and more to entice readers to purchase a Malem Bedwetting Alarm. We will continue our search for more blogs like this where the shills of the Bedwetting Store have put up advertisements for their other bedwetting alarms.

Beware before you purchase a bedwetting alarm from the Bedwetting Store or any bedwetting alarm sold by the Bedwetting Store.

Note:
Malem(TM) and the Bedwetting Store have a very large number of entries about their deceit in this blog. There are so many more entries and much more serious bad activities attributable to Malem and the Bedwetting Store, so that Malem and the Bedwetting Store have significantly more entries than all other manufacturers combined. You can read all of the Malem and Bedwetting Store deceit entries on this blog.

Malem and the Bedwetting Store have also been given a 0-stars blog of their own so that its many examples of deceit can stand out by themselves. The Malem Alarm and Bedwetting Store blog is at
http://bedewttingstoredeceit.blogspot.com/

Malem: Strong Deceit by Perversion

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Deceit on the Internet: Product Blogs

Continuing with our discussion of Deceit on the Internet, as suggested and explained at http://stopdeceit.blogspot.com/2013/07/stop-deceit-on-internet.htmlwe shall look at how product blogs are used for deceit.

Product Blogs:

This is something that each interested person can do for themselves. We did a Google search by the product names for the four products that we had considered in the earlier post of "Deceit on the Internet: Shopping Reviews." We can only give you a summary and our “feelings” based on our search. We only searched for the four products, A, B, C, and D which were evaluated in our earlier comments about Shopping Reviews.

For both Product A and Product B there were a large number of listings on product blogs. It is difficult to distinguish much difference between the techniques or results for Product A versus Product B. They both seemed to be reading out of the same book, and had rather similar results. So the next few paragraphs summarizes our thoughts for both Product A and Product B.

Both manufacturers were very aggressive in trying to “place” their products with any and all parties that would offer a "good" opinion about these products on their blogs, or help in spreading “the word” in a "good" sense about these products on the internet. Almost without exception, these blogging parties were individuals or small groups of individuals. Some stated that they were writing this blog entry because they had been given this product to review and then keep. We are aware that there are some blogs whose “owners” will write whatever they are told to write and enter that into their blogs for a monetary fee or other compensation. These blogs were also represented.

Both manufacturers also compensated these blogs by offering “discount coupons” through these blogs, which the blog owner would hopefully benefit from by attracting more traffic and consequently more paid advertising of some sort or the other. Many of these blogs were obviously providing statements (or reviews) from the manufacturers, or were copying significant elements of the manufacturers’ advertising in their “reviews.” Even blogs set up with names associated with bedwetting or bedwetting alarms were essentially servicing the manufacturers, and had doubtful or no validity or credibility in our opinion. Furthermore, some blog writers were blindly taking for granted the validity of other reviews on the internet (which we have already demonstrated can be quite fictional) and using them to validate their preferences, if these reviews so suited them. This may sound absurd and is undoubtedly unethical, but there is a lot of selective adoption of possibly unreliable information, if it suits the reviewer’s objectives.

As an illustration of how a manufacturer may actually advertise to entice other bloggers and persons to promote their product, we have copied an actual example from the internet, leaving out the blog and manufacturer’s name:

Bedwetting Alarm Giveaway & Blogger Opp!

This is a FREE blogger opportunity (with paid options)

Open to US Residents Only

Sign up: April 14, 2013 to April 28, 2013

Giveaway Dates: May 1, 2013 to May 15, 2013

Participation Rules:

· Participation is FREE (with paid options).

· You agree to promote the giveaway once it goes live at least 3x per week

Pricing:

· One free link of your choice - Facebook or Twitter or Pinterest only with announcement post

· $5.00 fee to waive announcement post

· The following additionallinks are $1.00 each:

o Facebook

o Twitter

o Pinterest

I will be posting a reminder for this once it goes live!

We did not find such issues for Products C and D to any significant extent.

Bearing in mind that Products A and B are relatively new compared to Products C and D, we must assume that the manufacturers of A and B were trying to make their presence known on the internet. It is unfortunate that both manufacturers had no qualms about paying (in cash or kind) to having their products touted on these blogs. These reviews and blogs are bogus and fake. Any reader of these blogs must remember that they have poor credibility and are often mouthpieces for whoever may be compensating them in any way. And more individuals are trying to make an extra buck by starting such “for hire” blogs. This is not a good trend as two sets of greedy people, the people setting up and running blogs, and the manufacturers and sellers, are only increasing deceit on the internet by fake postings on these blogs.
We should also point out that many blogs run by organizations that have developed a reputation in the heath advisory area can also be quite deceitful. The organization running the blog in its name may be unbiased and innocent, but members posting reviews, and moderators responsible for editing these reviews can be quite biased. Moderators have been know to delete entries that may question their biases and opinions, and even make it impossible for opposing views to be registered by "closing" that thread while maintaining on the blog only the opinions that the moderator supports, and get away with it because of inadequate controls on the part of the owner organization.

In conclusion, we must agree with Stop Deceit, that many blogs run by private individuals, small groups of persons, and even normally reliable organizations without adequate controls, can have substantial fake reviews on them. If Consumer Reports reviews bedwetting alarms, you can expect unbiased reviews. But “Moms-bedwetting-alarms-reviews” (the name is fictional and not intended to criticize anyone) probably should be ignored, unless you find its reading entertaining. Caution and prudence are highly recommended before the reader accepts reviews at their face value from these blogs.

Note:
Malem(TM) and the Bedwetting Store have a very large number of entries about their deceit in this blog. There are so many more entries and much more serious bad activities attributable to Malem and the Bedwetting Store, so that Malem and the Bedwetting Store have significantly more entries than all other manufacturers combined. You can read all of the Malem and Bedwetting Store deceit entries on this blog.

Malem and the Bedwetting Store have also been given a 0-stars blog of their own so that its many examples of deceit can stand out by themselves. The Malem Alarm and Bedwetting Store blog is at
http://bedewttingstoredeceit.blogspot.com/

Deceit on the Internet: Product Blogs

Friday, July 19, 2013

Deceit on the Internet: Shopping Reviews

We were intrigued by an entry (comment) by Anon on our entry for Chummie: Strong Deceit by Perversion on July 15, 2013. Anon referenced a blog http://stopdeceit.blogspot.com/titled Stop Deceit on the Internet. The author(s), using the name “Stop Deceit,” gave a decent description of deceit on the internet. Stop Deceit gave three basic sources of deceit on the internet:
1.       Manufacturer’s Web Sites,
2.       Product Blogs, and
3.       Shopping Reviews.
We would strongly recommend that readers look at http://stopdeceit.blogspot.com/ .

We have been systematically addressing deceit on manufacturers’ blog sites for bedwetting alarm manufacturers on this blog. We felt intrigued about how much deceit there may be with respect to bed wetting alarms on shopping blogs and shopping reviews. As we are following the bedwetting alarm industry, we thought we should look at bedwetting alarm related deceit in Product Blogs and Shopping Reviews

Shopping Reviews:

We chose Amazon.com for our basic analysis, as Amazon is undoubtedly the biggest shopping site (even for bedwetting alarms) and we can expect the most buyer reviews. Furthermore, Amazon does provide more information about the reviewer and the reviewer’s history at Amazon, so that we could better analyze the reviewer. To get a sufficiently large sample, we arbitrarily decided to look at “wired” alarms currently being sold on Amazon so that their reviews would be available to us. We also decided to only consider alarms where there were more than fifty reviews, so that we could have a reasonable sample size. Even there, to somewhat limit the time we might have to spend on this task, we selected four alarms which we felt might adequately cover the different styles and prices available.

Our intent was to try and get a plausible idea of the extent to which the reviews were unduly biased, and whether they were biased in favor of or against that particular alarm. In other words, we were attempting to identify the extent to which reviews might have been provided by shills or touts of the manufacturer (which would unduly favor that item) or by competitors (which would unduly bad-mouth the item). We then came up with a set of criteria to apply to each and every revue for that product on Amazon. We do want to point out that the criteria are subjective and are not necessarily perfect in their ability to identify touts or shills. But we feel that the identified reviews are much more likely to be unduly biased, and not be honest reviews by honest and actual buyers.

The following table shows the results for the number of possibly biased reviews out of the total, and further breaks them up into positive bias (perhaps shills for the manufacturer/seller) and negative bias (perhaps shills for competitors). They are expressed as a percentage of the total identified biased reviews (rounded to the nearest whole percent):

Product A:           34%        Positive Bias       32%        Negative Bias     2%

Product B: 31% Positive Bias 25% Negative Bias 6%

Product C: 11% Positive Bias 9% Negative Bias 2%

Product D: 2% Positive Bias 2% Negative Bias 0%

We must confess that the high percentage of bias that we judged to be present for Product A came as no surprise to us. We also see that a huge proportion of those are positively biased, perhaps unduly raising the "ratings" for Product A. We must “assume” that the manufacturer is quite desperate or non-caring about using deceitful reviews so as to raise the ratings of their product. So the “ratings” that you see on Amazon for this product are possibly very biased (skewed) on the high side and wrong.

Product B was the newest of the four products examined, and we were somewhat surprised that the percentage of possibly fake reviews was so high. The primary difference between Product B and Product A is that B has not flooded Amazon with possibly biased positive ratings as much as Product A might have. So the proportion of positive to negative biased reviews is less for Product B than for Product A. Never-the-less, Product B also appears to be overindulging in introducing biased reviews into Amazon.

Product C is an established product. Although the percentage of possibly fake reviews was lower, we still considered it to be high. The ratio of positive to negative biased reviews is about the same as for Product B.

Product D is also an established product. Here, our surprise was that the bias was so low, as compared to the other products. Without mentioning names, we must commend the manufacturer of Product D for our not noticing much presence of shills and touts in the reviews of this product.

In conclusion, we must agree with Stop Deceit, that even the “best” of shopping sites, using their own criteria for weeding out fake reviews, was unable to prevent a substantial number of possibly fake reviews from being presented on Amazon.com . For Product A and Product B, we estimate that about one-third of the reviews could be fake. This is a huge fraction of the total reviews. Consequently, do not take these reviews as “the honest truth.” Take them with a grain of salt, or even a shovelful of salt.

Note:
Malem(TM) and the Bedwetting Store have a very large number of entries about their deceit in this blog. There are so many more entries and much more serious bad activities attributable to Malem and the Bedwetting Store, so that Malem and the Bedwetting Store have significantly more entries than all other manufacturers combined. You can read all of the Malem and Bedwetting Store deceit entries on this blog.

Malem and the Bedwetting Store have also been given a 0-stars blog of their own so that its many examples of deceit can stand out by themselves. The Malem Alarm and Bedwetting Store blog is at
http://bedewttingstoredeceit.blogspot.com/