paid for reviews....sigh
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| How pathetic. I got an offer to buy 5 star reviews. Normally i ignore these. I said no thanks and was immediately rewarded with a 1 star review by the user. Ive given up with google play. No more app making. |
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| Wow, that sucks. You should have ignored the offer and not reply. Is that by email or chat? |
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| Thats pretty sucky, the worlds got its share of a**holes. |
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| Can this sort of thing not be reported? Google would probably want to do something about this. Seems like some sort of crime also. |
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| You should have just ignored them. I doubt they would give you a 1 star if you hadn't replied. |
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| I've had a number of emails asking for TU2 keys in return for favorable Steam reviews. I've also had emails from jackasses claiming to be popular Youtube channel owners asking for review Steam keys. If they get them, they resell them, directly bleeding me of sales for my work. They're often easily spotted by the atrocious spelling in their emails. |
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| some people are "humanists" and believe that all humans have initially a good intent and are benevolent and can be useful members of society, but reality shows the contrary... (don't go read stuff on marketing/blackhat forums, you will realize what "humanity" is capable of doing just to get some money... it's pathetic) |
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| Seems like some sort of crime also. It is a crime. They call it bribery and extortion.@Matty: Inform Google or whom ever the distributor of your software is about the problem and forward them any emails or contact details that you receive. |
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| good suggestion dawlane. Maybe they can discard the review. |
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| some people are "humanists" and believe that all humans have initially a good intent and are benevolent and can be useful members of society, but reality shows the contrary... Internet shows the contrary. Best not confuse the degenerates you find in that hellscape with reality ;P |
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| you don't need internet to observe similar behaviors in some people ;) also even if this happens via the internet/interweb, where humans interact without direct contact, what matter is the behavior and the intent behind it, and i don't know how you could excuse some actions/behaviors when the goal/intent is clearly to screw another people just to make a little money. |
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| In all my years on this world I have learn never to trust total strangers and those that I do know that break that trust are never trusted again and usually end up with me having nothing to do with them. A true story: A man suffers an heart attack in a restaurant. While waiting for an ambulance the mans heart stops beating and an employee who is certified to perform CPR carried out the procedure until the paramedics arrived to take over. A few weeks or so later, the restaurant and the employee received a letter from the heart attack victim's solicitor with the intention of taking them to court for damages for breaking their clients rib whilst performing CPR. The employee basically said "Go a head as you will lose, I am qualified to administer CPR and have up to date certificates". Any good solicitor would have known that any place of work that has a number of employees, has to have a qualified person to hand that can perform first aid with current up to date certificates. They should also know that performing CPR can cause injuries. I don't know about anyone else, but I think that I would be grateful to have someone save my life even if they had to break something to do it. But I'm afraid that this is the society that we now live in, where some are out to get money out of someone else by fraud, theft, blackmail or the blame game. |
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| so sad, dawlane. I have been certified in both firstaid and cpr many times throughout my life, but currently I am not. I still remember everything I need to do to assist someone in need, but your post has made me think twice. Jason |
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| @Jason W: Before attempting CPR you have to know how you legally stand. In the UK you can find this information at Resuscitation Council (UK). Unfortunately in the US this is a problem with each state having their own laws on the subject (some weird ones as some will fine you if you know CPR, but don't use it when required), but as far as I know the Good Samaritan laws should protect someone as long as the have kept up to date with their training. This does not mean that it will stop someone trying to sue. |
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| @dawlane ..thats just so weird..basically, guy saves his life, and that moron sue him for minor injury while doing all that...i just cant see any logic there..im truly surprised.. ..good side of whole thing is that, guy who performed CPR, didn't get AIDS or something like that, as i have seen happen..imagine you help someone and got infected for a life.. |
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| I don't know about anyone else, but I think that I would be grateful to have someone save my life even if they had to break something to do it. But I'm afraid that this is the society that we now live in, where some are out to get money out of someone else by fraud, theft, blackmail or the blame game. All US states andf many countries have 'good samaritan' laws, with varying degrees of protection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law "Good Samaritan laws offer legal protection to people who give reasonable assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill, in peril, or otherwise incapacitated.[1] The protection is intended to reduce bystanders' hesitation to assist, for fear of being sued or prosecuted for unintentional injury or wrongful death" While anyone can threaten to sue, the chance of them actually winning is small. |
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| I contacted google support ... here is a screenshot of the offending review/rating: (Edit - my guess is the photo is fake too!)  Oh well.....that's the world of the internet for you. |
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| I'm sure they will delete it. |
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| @Matty: With something like that; then they will remove it. @Naughty Alien: Didn't surprise me one bit. There is a compensation mentality that seems to be gripping most of the western world as a result of these "no win, no fee" solicitors. @xlsior: Your post in 16 is basically what I said in post 14. But I wouldn't rely on a wiki when it comes to such matters. There should be information that can be obtained from the country/states law agencies on the "Good Samaritan" laws and liabilities. For CPR, the organisation/authorised training centres that issues the certificates would have specific guides on what the legalities are. It can get more complicated if a person is carrying a "Do Not Resuscitate" card/letter. |
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| While anyone can threaten to sue, the chance of them actually winning is small. Unfortunately, they are not counting on winning, they are counting on that you will be so intimidated by their lawyers, you will settle out of court. If you are a business, sometimes the damage to your reputation can cost you more than it would just to pay the person. Can you imagine the headlines, "Fry cook performs medical procedure on customer, causes injury"? The restaurant may just pay to keep something like that out of the news. You know that is how it would play out in the newspapers as they are more interested in selling papers than telling the truth (and technically, it would be true, after all CPR is a medical procedure, and broken ribs is an injury). |
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| 'ere!, that review has a reply box. Surely you could publically name and shame them for bribery, also copy and paste the bribery message; they'll soon crawl back under their bridge when hoards of Google account holders boycott them with distrust. Assuming that bit further up this topic is public. |
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| 'ere!, that review has a reply box. Surely you could publically name and shame them for bribery, also copy and paste the bribery message; they'll soon crawl back under their bridge when hoards of Google account holders boycott them with distrust. Not a good idea. Let Google deal with it. Scum like that will try to get even with you in some other way. Unfortunately, they are not counting on winning, they are counting on that you will be so intimidated by their lawyers, you will settle out of court. The typical lawyer strategy is to try to make it a lengthy court case so that the defendant has to weigh the costs. As for the news papers. Only the low life gutter press would print such stories and leave themselves open to be sued for damages, especial when you see positive things like this and this. |
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| I see your point but that scum sure needs making an example of. |
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| it reminds me of the people who add a negative rating/comment on a book on amazon even if they have not bought it (and most likely not read it)... |
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| Even if that particular review is removed I have no doubt they have ghost accounts just waiting to put up another bad one. |
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| There is also the type of people who say,"giving your app 3 stars unless you add feature X" Developer goes ahead and spends their time to add feature X. Person then does not bother to update their comment because they have their new feature and that's the end of it. Generation gimme at its finest. |
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| Generation gimme at its finest. As soon as people started giving away their software for free on mobile devices they encouraged that kind of attitude. |
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| As soon as people started giving away their software for free on mobile devices they encouraged that kind of attitude Indeed and its the same problem for giving away your services for free. E.g, an associate wants you to fix their PC which may take you many hours of your weekend. Once said person has their PC fixed it's "thanks .. I owe you one". Except that favour never seems to come back around. |
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| I see your point but that scum sure needs making an example of. Agreed, however for the simple life I think the best policy is to ignore it. |
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