3.4 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 159 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're in the Paracast. |
0:11.0 | You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio. |
0:28.0 | And now, here's Gene Steinberg. |
0:32.3 | So after a break of a few years, we welcome Ron James back to the power cast with Tina Randall. |
0:39.1 | I guess at this point, that if he doesn't like us, he'll just leave for another few years. |
0:44.4 | But seriously, I have encountered here something a lot of you listeners might know about |
0:50.9 | an interesting scheme on the part of manufacturers or resellers |
0:56.4 | to get people to give them favorable reviews on Amazon. A small company will live and die |
1:03.0 | by reviews. So I bought a bottle of a vitamin, Okay. On Amazon. |
1:11.7 | And with it, I get this little card. |
1:15.1 | Thank you for your purchase. |
1:17.3 | Get a free bottle or a $20 Amazon gift card. |
1:23.5 | Now, how do I do that? |
1:25.0 | Guess I write a favorable review. |
1:29.7 | Oh, well. |
1:30.8 | Wait. |
1:31.9 | Please don't mention the gift card in the review. |
1:36.8 | I then sent an email listing the review or showing them a screenshot and the order number. |
1:43.7 | And allegedly, I will get either |
1:45.2 | a free bottle of this vitamin or a $20 Amazon gift card. I chose the gift card, by the way, |
1:52.0 | not because I have anything wrong about the vitamin, but the vitamin costs less than $20. |
1:59.2 | Now, that's not the first time I've seen that. |
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