> Belkin's President: "So, it was with great surprise and dismay when we discovered that one of our employees may have posted a number of queries on the Amazon Mechanical Turk website inviting users to post positive reviews of Belkin products in exchange for payment."

But how do I trust them enough to know that he's telling the truth?

> But how do I trust them enough to know that he's telling the truth?

You can go on their behaviour in the past. In 2003, Belkin sold a router that would occasionally throw away the response to http requests, and replace them with an advert for a Belkin product -- http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/ms...

More details here: http://67.43.12.89/~cabalama/weblog/art_49.html and here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/0031204

I think Belkin are lying. Deceit is part of their corporate culture.

You can't, but not everything is a big conspiracy. He very likely is embarrassed.

embarrassed to be found out maybe?

easy...just read some user submitted reviews about the company

Your sarcasm detector seems to be broken. Check its batteries.

What's missing from the response is that they took action to fire the person responsible.

I read the response: it's wrapped into a lot of nice, vague, non-specific, non-binding stuff. It's well written by a PR department and may fool the average joe.

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