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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔

There has been a lot on the news about companies hiring people to post good reviews.  Most of what I've seen talks about the actual producers/vendors of products doing it rather than the retailer that sells them.  

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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔

I get sales advertisements in my email nearly every day from somewhere on the web.

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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔


@Kachina624 wrote:

@wishmoon.  Virtually every day?


It isn't even 8:00am and I've gotten emails from Keurig and Belks. Soft Surroundings is on FB having a sale.

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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔

@cbrite: No, I don't think any posters are being paid. Some people post a lot, some don't. I think it's just that simple. 

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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔

I don't think they are paid, but I believe relatives of hosts post. I think they read the boards and probably relay information that they screen.
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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔

I don’t think they’re paid but geeze...how can you love Wen &

Andrew Lessman pills that much?? If that’s the case...it’s kinda/sorta

sad they have to buy $$ stuff to make them feel happy.🤷‍♀️

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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔

I don't think QVC pays people to post.

 

I do think some of the vendors pay people to post good reviews.

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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔

No, I don't think some posters are paid to post, if that means by the Q.. but I do (and have thought for quite the while) that one particular poster is a plant, used for promotion and etc. by someone that doesn't work for the Q.

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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔

I  don't necessarily think they are paid to post... but I do believe that some the "what do you do about" posts are timed to coincide with a product that will "solve" the problem.

 

Sometimes things are too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.

 

 

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Re: Do You Think Some Posters Are Paid To Post?🤔


@CalminHeart wrote:

There has been a lot on the news about companies hiring people to post good reviews.  Most of what I've seen talks about the actual producers/vendors of products doing it rather than the retailer that sells them.  


@CalminHeart 

 

I think they call those the people  "influencers."  It's a term I've heard several times lately.