Locked: Tacklife is banned on RFD for shilling?

JoeStale wrote: ↑ So I just had one of my Amazon deal threads for multimeters deleted from Hot Deals and the PM of the moderator said "Reason: Tacklife is banned on RFD for shilling". What gives? Why is RFD deleting so many deal threads? I've seen other threads deleted, too, not just Tacklife ones. And these are deals I'm actually trying to buy!!! And there are other RFDers buying in those threads, too! Because the prices are actually "hot" and not because I'm a "shill". If I was a shill, I would hope at least I would get paid something!

Is there some central list of banned sellers we can't mention on RFD? I would hope at least Logitech gets banned.

superfresh89 wrote: ↑ Lol what? Why would Logitech get banned? :/

JoeStale wrote: ↑ Oh, come on! It's so obvious when there are Logitech shill threads

superfresh89 wrote: ↑ I have no idea what you're talking about. Tacklife is some cheap China clone brand that no one's heard of... Logitech is a major manufacturer of high quality electronics. Not sure how you can compare the two. Never seen a Logitech shill lol

JoeStale wrote: ↑ I would rather buy some hot Tacklife deals than super overpriced Logitech POS gear threads.

TomRFD wrote: ↑ Yes Tacklife is one of the Amazon sellers who have been added to our blacklist for recruiting shills to post deals on their behalf. For legal reasons we do not publicly share the list but if anyone wants to know if an Amazon seller is blacklisted or not, they can ask myself or any of our moderators.

JoeStale wrote: ↑ How do you know who is a shill and who is not a shill? Do you catch them by reading people's private messages?

And I think you should let RFDers decide for themselves instead of banning so many good deals. We already have the downvotes button to sort out the bad deals. I don't care if someone is a shill as long as they bring a really good deal. I'm actually buying the stuff from the threads you keep deleting!!!

Bordak wrote: ↑ I've had people PM me in the past offering "perks" if I will post threads for their products, which I reported. I imagine this happens regularly.

JoeStale wrote: ↑ I wouldn't have cared if you accepted the perks if the deal you posted was actually hot. Look at all the dang Anker threads in Hot Deals that are obviously shilled and cold yet we keep them around!

lead wrote: ↑ anker or aukey because anker is a pretty legit company. Over priced as far as I'm concerned.

lcmt wrote: ↑ This is the forum rule which members need to follow no matter if you are shill or not. I'm sure there are reasons to set this rule by RFD. Besides that, any deals are sold by third-party sellers with less than 1,000 lifetime ratings cannot be posted, but you can ask for an exception from Admin.

Tacklife is one of the hot sellers being deleted quite often here. They have some products with good quality. Very quite often, Tacklife forgets to withdraw the coupon on the lightning deal, so the deal becomes very hot. I just grab their garden tools set with $10 coupon + lightning deal.

Manatus wrote: ↑ I care because sometimes I, and probably many others, can't always tell if the deal is that good immediately. Let's say it's a piece of technology, a dashcam or something that I don't really know much about. I depend on RFDers who know more, to share their knowledge and inform the rest of us whether this is a good product, seller, price. I find that in many cases, the greatest value to these forums is in the community discussion. And that only works if you can trust that everyone else is trying to share their opinions honestly. That doesn't mean they are always correct, we all have biases, but to me at least a lot of the value of RFD would be lost if I had to constantly try to figure out who's an actual paid salesman, for a product I don't really know much about.

Obviously some deals are really obvious and for well known products, but there are many that aren't, and knowing that some people out there have a real vested interest in you buying them (like how referral links are banned too) would really harm that part of the forum experience in my opinion.

Layover wrote: ↑ I agree, rfd is a business and they want their cut from businesses and need to do what they need to do. Rfd is not a deals site for consumers but a business making money off their users

Lots of users like me use adblocker like ad guard and don't click on affiliate links, so they need make money elsewhere