Finally it turned out that Amazon complained to the stemmers who imitate and sell the five star review


ByRobert Scoble

Amazon filed an action in the United States for the injunction against illegal conduct and compensation for damages against three websites that deliberately conceived the evaluation of the review column written by the product purchaser. This is the first case in the history of Amazon, which spans 20 years.

Amazon sues to block fake reviews on the site | The Seattle Times
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-sues-to-block-fake-reviews-on-its-site/

Amazon files first-ever suit over fake product reviews, alleging sites sold fraudulent praise - GeekWire
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I was appealed for making an appraisal in Amazon's item review column and conducting an act that faked many high evaluations,Buyazonreviews.comJay Gentile defendant who is supposed to operate the same and provide similar servicesBuyamazonreviews.com, Bayreviews.net, buyreviewsnow.com and so forth. At the time of article creation, bayreviews.net and buyreviewsnow.com are inaccessible to the site.

complaintAmong Amazon's (PDF file) Amazon says "Although the actual number is small, these reviews threaten consumers and sellers, manufacturers' Amazon trusts and eventually become an offense to Amazon's brand" Infringement of trademark by defendant including Mr. Gentile, false advertisement, andAnti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection ActandWashington State Consumer Protection ActWe are complaining about the conflict.

ByWonderlane

In response to this complaint, buyazonreviews.com operated by Gentile does not respond to the comment request of the Seattle Times, but Mark Collins, owner of buyamazonreviews.com, one of the defendants, Inside "Amazon's affairs site is only helping retailers working on Amazon to receive reviews," denying Amazon appeal. Furthermore, "We are not selling fake reviews, we offer an unbiased, honest review for all products, which is not illegal at all."

Amazon spokesperson replies "I will not comment on litigation in progress".

Amazon complained in the complaint that Gentile defendant "to provide as many as five stars as much" to the user of the service, so-calledStealth marketing(Stemmas) and promises to make up the evaluation, and insisted that the method of adjusting the timing of publication was used so that the act is not detected. In addition, he insists that the empty boxes were sent out to create a deal in order to direct that actual transactions existed instead of stemmers, and the site ranged from $ 19 per review to 22 reviews He said that he received a reward for the dollar (about 2300 yen to 2600 yen).

ByPublic.Resource.Org

In addition, Amazon insisted on infringement of trademarks as defendants used logo marks and the like without the company's products on the site. Also, confusing consumers by using names that remind AmazonCybersquattingWe have also claimed that he was conducting an act equivalent to that, seeking to stop such acts, seeking compensation for trial against triple the amount of damage as compensation for punitive damages and seeking compensation for trial costs and seeking .

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