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.

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 Bedwetting Store blog is at
http://bedewttingstoredeceit.blogspot.com/

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