Inviting a reviewer to an all-experience paid trade show in the Maldives isn’t advertising.
I’m not so sure; that seems like a kind of sponsored review. Inviting a government regulator to a similar thing would be bribery, for example.
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I really like that ConsumerReports works this way, and I respect them a lot for it. Unfortunately their main demographic is so different from mine that their reviews are generally not useful to me.
It would be a form of bribery but it seems that bribery always exists. It might take less direct ways but when there’s money looking to influence behavior that money generally finds a way to be spend.
I’m not so sure; that seems like a kind of sponsored review. Inviting a government regulator to a similar thing would be bribery, for example.
I really like that ConsumerReports works this way, and I respect them a lot for it. Unfortunately their main demographic is so different from mine that their reviews are generally not useful to me.
It would be a form of bribery but it seems that bribery always exists. It might take less direct ways but when there’s money looking to influence behavior that money generally finds a way to be spend.