Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the serious sellers podcast by Helington.

I'm your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that is our weekly buzz, where we give you

news updates around the world of e-commerce, around Amazon, Walmart, and more.

And we also give you training tips of the week that will give you serious strategies for serious

sellers of any

level in the e-commerce world let's see what's buzzing we've got a couple interesting news articles

about amazon cracking down on different things and even you know taking legal actions against

people who are scamming the system and doing fake reviews and counterfeit products and things

like that we've got to update on maybe a marketplace you hadn't thought about selling on.

We've also got a training tip of the week that will help you really understand

what kind of images your customer might want to see way before you even have a live

listing.

And we've also got an interview about how to increase your

walmart.com reviews let's go ahead and hop right into the news the first article of the day

it's actually a couple articles we're going to go over and the first one is from gizmodo and it's

entitled a supplement company hijacked its amazon reviews to boost sales according to the FTC.

Now, in this article, it says that this bountiful, nature's bounty or bountiful company,

they had kind of done this manipulation that I think is, I don't want to say it's commonplace,

but you've probably heard a lot about,

you know, like look at this one product they have almost 40,000 reviews.

According to this lawsuit or this judgment, they got fined $600,000 from the FTC.

FTC guys is some entity you don't want to mess with.

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