Posted on 04/06/2015 11:55:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Report: Samsung paid 500 fake fans to attend Chinese press event for the launch of its new flagship phones
According to a report out of Shanghai, Samsung paid 500 people to pretend to be Samsung fans at a press conference held Friday in China to show off the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge. The 500 fake fans represented half of the 1000 who attended the event. According to someone who recruited "fans" for the manufacturer,
Samsung was seeking people under 30 who looked like students. They were each paid the equivalent of $4.80 USD once they stuck it out at the event for at least an hour. The recruiters received the equivalent of $3.20 USD for each person they got to attend.
The phoney fans were told to tell the press that they attended the event because they were Samsung fans or because they were interested in Sammy's new phones. Yet, half of the people at the event were taking pictures of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge with an Apple iPhone. One attendee said that she answered an ad on WeChat, an IM app in China. She earned the equivalent of $8.14 USD for staying more than 15 minutes at the media event. Every hired person had to post their picture, name and phone number on WeChat. They also had to "like" the Samsung Galaxy Baidu page.
Samsung might feel pressured to rebuild its market share in the country. The iPhone earned a market share of 27.6% in China between December and February, according to Kantar Worldpanel. The most popular phones in China during that time period were the Apple iPhone 6 (with a 10.2% market share) followed by the Xiaomi Redmi and the Apple iPhone 6 Plus.
Companies, charities, unions, political campaigns and community organizers do this all the time and have for many years.
Samsung probably paid a local company to find them fans, since its a foreugn country. They should have bussed in workrrs from.Foxconn.
But those fans weren’t gay, right? Tim Cook would prefer it so.
HIV rate skyrockets! Apple convention to blame!
OTOH, the presence of this sort of spam just might tend to stymie contributions. More than a few are sick of this stuff in our face every time we check the site.
There are a ton of people who have each willingly signed up for the Apple Ping List. I, for one, enjoy the threads,
OTOH, as you say, there are Anti-Apple people who work hard to make sure that we can’t read the Apple threads in peace.
They put bars on the window like apple to keep em from committing suicide?
Must you continually repeat your Damned lie. You've been told the truth with links to the accurate information showing the suicide rate in FoxConn plant is far lower than it is in US IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES for the same age groups, and that what few suicides there were occurred at a plant making Micosoft X-Boxes, HP computers, Sony PlayStations, and NOKIA phones. The nearest Apple assembly line was over 150 miles away, you IDIOTS Like You claim it was Apple employees. Are you really that dumb that you keep repeating a lie? What does it get you, except to make you look stupid?
Did I mention that Samsung is one of FoxConn's major customers too, assembling many of Samsung's low-end phones?
Sinatra’s manager paid girls to scream and swoon.
Well I’ll just notice, Samsung still has their name on their phone, which to me is a (huge) mistake.
Nobody except for Koreans want the darned name on the phone.
Take it off. Then the phone can compete. It is that simple.
Apple has done a good job of making computers that any idiot can use. That is why the libs like them so much.
Hey, it worked for the Beatles half a century ago.
Nothing succeeds like success.
How many of the iphone flippers in line on release day at the apple stores are paid by someone else to be there?
Thanks for posting your threads.
Which reminds me, the Democrat concert tour should be ramping up real soon. Free concerts with name performers if you are willing to endure a time share political campaign pitch.
As did CBS when the Beatles first came to America.
Apple did the same thing since their phones are made in China as well.
When is Apple going to take that hundreds of billion of dollars in profits and start hiring Americans to make their phones instead of using cheap slave labor in China?
Oh, and when will Apple start paying American taxes on all those profits instead of creating foreign shall corporations to hide the money overseas?
“Thanks for posting your threads.”
Why? Are you neck deep into Apple stock, too?
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