Flipkart's 'Certified Buyers' Post Dubious Reviews for the Xiaomi Mi TV, Even Before It Goes on Sale - maglioneaboustinger

Xiaomi recently unveiled the Mi TV 4 in India and with a Price tag of just Rs. 39,999, the TV is bound to sell like hot cakes. All the same, for some odd reason, doubtful 'Certificated Buyer' reviews were spotted along the TV's Flipkart product page.

UPDATE: The reviews now display a revealing which reads: **The reviewer was given a try to review under embargo.**

UPDATE 2: Xiaomi has told Beebom in an official statement that the reviews are theatrical role of Flipkart's initiative to push sunrise products. The company categorically denied that these were paid reviews, and had informed Flipkart's team roughly the misleading reviews. Since then Flipkart has added a disclaimer as mentioned above.

Even ahead the TV went on sales agreement, its production page on Flipkart has three 5-star reviews from "Certified Buyers". The 'Certified Buyers' dubitable are Amerind publications BGR India, The Indian Express, and Digit.in, which posted reviews of the TV on their websites as part of the TV's launch campaign.

As potential, the reviews sing praises of the Military Intelligence Section 6 TV and don't care to number any of its cons. Quite misleading, I must say.

Spell I wouldn't abnegate that the Mi TV is a great ware, I'm having a problematical time believing Xiaomi would resort to such problematic reviews. But I also didn't expect Flipkart to countenance such reviews to be posted connected its website every bit they are against the internet site's policy.

According to Flipkart's intersection reassessmen creation guidelines, any reviews "by or on behalf of a person operating theater company with a financial interest in the product or a competitor's product (reviews past authors, artists, publishers, manufacturers without disclosure)" are non allowed connected the platform. I would've been fine if the reviews had a fair disclosure, just none of the three reviews refer anything along those lines.

The solely thing for sure is that the reviews are definitely misleading, especially as the TV has not even gone on sale.

My thoughts resonate with a act of buyers of Flipkart, every bit all three reviews have been heavily downvoted. We are trying to reach Xiaomi and Flipkart for a comment on the matter and will update the post as soon as we hear anything from the companies. Until then, we request you to spokesperson your concerns to some companies on ethnical media with the hashtag #CertifiedBuyers .

Notice: Portions of this clause were edited to take away whatever speculation that has been clarified by Xiaomi's official statement.