Amazon Primed: mysterious Chinese seeds, fraudulent critics, worker spying

Amazon has had another busy week this week with a “bomb” item in the FT about – surprise horror – reviews purchased on Amazon.Amazon has been rid of some 20,000,000 product reviews written through seven of Britain’s top critics.has shown that many other people make a lot of money by posting thousands of five-star ratings.Justin Fryer, in the past the critic ranked number one in Amazon.co.uk, won 15,000 euros (19.9k euros) in August by revisingArray.. just about each and every single thing you can think of.Fryer gave a five-star review of a product (on average) once every 4 hours.The problem? It was necessary for the FT to scold him.

“The vast majority of these products come from little-known Chinese brands, which offer to send low-rate products to critics in exchange for positive messages.Mr. Fryer then appears to have sold many products on eBay, earning approximately 20,000.”euros since June. Contacted through the FT, Mr. Fryer denied that he had published paid reviews, before deleting his review history from his Amazon profile page.Fryer stated that eBay’s ads, which described the products as “unused” and “un opened,” were at least two other Amazon UK critics ranked among the 10 most sensitive have removed their record after Mr. words “Please go.”

Amazon has now banned the sale of seeds abroad in the United States after thousands of Americans won unsolicited seed packs by mail, most of them from China in what sounds like a brushing tactic.has been very public about the factor and is a multibillion-dollar industry.Amazon is only the newest primary generation platform suffering from suspicious seed shipments.The BBC covered the story. While seeds so far were things like roses, the old recommendation remains true, if someone gives you magic beans or seeds, don’t plant them, you can cause a giant challenge (!).

“U.S. officials have said gardeners do not plant seeds of unknown origin.It is idea that packages are a component of a “brushed” global scam to get positive reviews for online sales sites.Amazon’s new guidelines, effective September 3, also prohibit the sale of seeds in the United States through non-U.S. residents.He added that distributors may be banned if they do not adhere to the new guidelines, but the store has not demonstrated whether their ban will increase to other countries.was first reported through the Wall Street Journal.At least 14 species of plants have been known among the mysterious packages, adding mint, lavender and roses».

Amazon denied this week that the company planned to hire anti-union spies after several task descriptions were published on its global security operations team for intelligence analysts who would monitor unionization threats opposed to the company.The Guardian has more details.

“A few hours after task publications, Amazon got rid of the links and said it wasn’t representative of what the role entails.”The publication is not an accurate description of the position, it was made by mistake and has since been corrected,” said an ad raised fear due to its implications for staff in Australia, i.e. for the company’s 200,000 square metre warehouse west of Sydney, which it must open in 2021.NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian said in June that the warehouse will close to Kemp’s Creek would create 2,000 tasks.”

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