Dashmellow
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hadn't seen those pages before but have seen the same type of activity on all sorts of forums all over the web, as you no doubt know in just about any category you can think of there's some sort of enthusiast forum and wherever that is there's some mention of gearbest there and some user reviewing product, maybe getting paid or just getting free product, depends how popular the category is and/or how gullible the reviewer is I guess as to which it is, either way I think they abuse the relationships just about everywhere they go, not only are they playing people but they help bring a false sense of credibility to unwitting consumers and build marketing material for them that they are incapable of generating themselves, equal measures of clever and deception involved on gearbests behalf
Speaking of abusing the relationship,where virtually every other vendor here on DCT uses the privilege of posting some links in their signature, everyone does so discretely, whereas Gearbest essentially uses their signature to SPAM every post they make anywhere on the forum with increasingly large, bold colored lettering and links to specific sales and promo codes which then get transmitted along with the photos and promotions to the email inboxes of anyone subscribed to any particular thread that Gearbest posts in. This is basically a defacto SPAMBOT which seems a violation of @DashCamMan's intention in the thread Retailers No Longer Allowed to Post Links to Their Site.
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