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I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - hpka - 2016-04-01 The thread title I wanted to write was: I was sent a "fully loaded Kodi box"/"free movies and TV" Android box for a product review, so I remembered the recent blog post from the XBMC Foundation, and made the problems with this kind of thing very clear in my video and text review, and asked the sellers to stop. I do Amazon Product Reviews. I get sent a lot of products to review, and this particular one caught my eye. It was a "fully loaded" Android box with Kodi, that promised "free movies and TV". A month before I had read the post on Kodi.tv entitled The Piracy Box Sellers and Youtube Promoters Are Killing Kodi where the XBMC Foundation clearly ask for this practice to stop, and why. Take a look at the product links and titles to see why I firmly think this was exactly the sort of thing that post was asking stops: Amazon.ca Title: MXQ PRO® T10 Quad Core 1080P Android TV Box Fully Loaded Streaming Media Player with many Free Moive and TV ,bulid-in Lastest KODI(XBMC),Android 4.4 Kitkt, CPU Amlogic S805, 1.5 GHz Amazon.ca Link: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01C3ZDKS8 Amazon.com Title: [UPDATED VERSION] MXQ PRO® T10 Quad Core Android TV Box Fully Loaded Streaming Media Player with many Free Moive and TV , bulid-in Lastest KODI(XBMC), Android 4.4 Kitkt, CPU Amlogic S805, 1.5 GHz Amazon.com Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01879W9XQ Amazon.co.uk Title: [NEW Release 1080P Version ] MXQ PRO T10 Quad Core Android TV Box Fully Loaded Streaming Media Player with many Free Moive and TV ,bulid-in Lastest KODI(XBMC),Android 4.4 Kitkt,1080P, CPU Amlogic S805 Amazon.co.uk Title: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01879W9XQ So, deciding in no small part that Kodi has done more for me than this Android box ever will, I shot a video review that clearly shows the problems this box has right out of the packaging, and the broken addons, and that it's "free movies and TV" addons hardly seems legitimate... I then uploaded the review to those three Amazon links: Link to the Amazon.ca Review: https://www.amazon.ca/review/R1CBGFXM8ZEHZ1 Link to the Amazon.com Review: https://www.amazon.com/review/R7B4JAE1ZVBZ1 Link to the Amazon.co.uk Review: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RZG2L7YR8IGWA ... and onto YouTube: And I added this text review: Quote:Title: A TV Box with Android 4.4 and alright hardware, but violates the wishes of the makers of Kodi, and many addons broken as shipped Hopefully this in some way helps. Also, please consider this my way of letting the Kodi team know about this particular product. You do great work folks! Thank you, you've helped me a lot, and I hope this in some way provides the help you asked for in that blog post. EDIT: Two more boxes arrived, I did it again: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=275940 RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - Fail$tyle420 - 2016-04-01 Love it and well said! RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - Hudson_Hawk04 - 2016-04-01 Very well said! I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - Memphiz - 2016-04-01 thx for this RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - keith - 2016-04-01 Everyone, in your respective stores click on 'This review was helpful' on the bottom so it gets upvoted as the 'main' review for this item. Thanks for doing this! RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 bl... - fatbob46 - 2016-04-01 (2016-04-01, 21:29)keith Wrote: Everyone, in your respective stores click on 'This review was helpful' on the bottom so it gets upvoted as the 'main' review for this item.Good idea, done! RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 bl... - User 272336 - 2016-04-01 (2016-04-01, 21:49)fatbob46 Wrote: Good idea, done! +1 RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 bl... - Dangelus - 2016-04-01 (2016-04-01, 21:29)keith Wrote: Everyone, in your respective stores click on 'This review was helpful' on the bottom so it gets upvoted as the 'main' review for this item. Done! RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 bl... - hpka - 2016-04-01 (2016-04-01, 21:29)keith Wrote: Everyone, in your respective stores click on 'This review was helpful' on the bottom so it gets upvoted as the 'main' review for this item. Firstly, thank you to everyone doing this. Secondly, if there are other English speaking Amazon stores that this device is listed on, let me know and I'll upload the review (has to be the exact same device). I checked Amazon.com.au but could not find it. Thirdly, you can vote in other Amazon stores than your local one using your account, just as I can post my reviews internationally (as it happens, I've actually shopped at all three of the ones I posted in, but I don't think this is required). Edit: Added the thirdly bit RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - hpka - 2016-04-04 Had a look at each reviews page this morning and sure enough, the video+wall-of-text is the top review on all three. Voting it helpful will keep it there no matter what happens of course: Album: http://imgur.com/a/C7Xvn RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - nooryani84 - 2016-04-04 This is great! Way to go hpka! (2016-04-01, 21:29)keith Wrote: Everyone, in your respective stores click on 'This review was helpful' on the bottom so it gets upvoted as the 'main' review for this item. Done! I also downvoted some of the reviews that were positive to the scam. RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - hpka - 2016-04-04 Kind of hoping I get sent another now (not likely until they forget about this). I kind of enjoyed this whole experience. RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - Prof Yaffle - 2016-04-04 +1, and a few -1s to level the field RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 bl... - hpka - 2016-04-04 (2016-04-04, 22:17)Prof Yaffle Wrote: few -1s to level the field I'll be honest, here, if someone has put effort into their review, I would personally have you just leave them alone. E.g. if someone has spent some time crafting a review, even if they don't share the point of view I've made a big deal of here, just leave em be. However, there are plenty of 1 sentence or few words reviews that were likely purchased from one of those review buying services, so crack your knuckles and vote those unhelpful. RE: I was sent a "fully loaded" Kodi box, so I referenced the 14 Feb 2016 blog post - wrxtasy - 2016-04-05 Nice work here hpka, from someone that actually cares about Kodi. Added your reviews as helpful and all the other 2 sentence "Paid for Reviews" I tagged as unhelpful. In fact I'm going to do this to a lot of products with 2 sentence "Paid for Reviews" Fully Loaded boxe reviews from this point going forward. |