Amazon’s lying and running iPhone 5 ads on Google

Amazons lying and running iPhone 5 ads on GoogleAdvertising based on keywords around the internet isn’t exactly huge news. But, when a massive online retailer and respectable company starts paying for iPhone 5 advertisements well before an official announcement from Apple, they lose a little bit of credibility in our eyes.

Amazon has apparently begun advertising discounted iPhone 5s with free shipping on Google’s AdWords platform. Oh, but it doesn’t end there. The advertisement takes you to an iPhone 4 listing.  Way to stay classy Amazon.

Yup, Amazon’s hocking iPhone 4s as iPhone 5s on Google to cash in on people looking for information on the iPhone 5. Listen, we get that marketing products is difficult, but blatantly lying to prospective consumers for page views is pretty disgusting. It’s being reported that about 1.5 million iPhone 5  searches a day occur on Google, so it’s not surprising that someone’s trying to cash in on the numbers. It is surprising, however, that a company of Amazon’s stature is leading the way.

What gives Amazon? Are you guys completely fine with lying to your customers? It sure looks like you are.

Article Via NBC Bay Area

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ISam

Not Amazon. A 3rd party affiliate. Amazon should probably enforce what affiliates are allowed to post though.
http://www.toptechreviews.net/apple/amazon-iphone-5-ads-are-bait-and-switch-and-not-legitimate/

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juvus

you guys are so funny. reading all those articles about this I would think that tech guys have never heard of how companies buy keywords. Amazon bought the keyword for Iphone and google filled in the blank.

I used to type things in Google and ads from ebay would pop up saying they have it. Of course they never had them, but they bought keywords and my search fit in to what they paid for.

So relax guys. Amazon is not trying to sell you Iphone 5 or Iphone 6 or Iphone 7 just iphones and if you typed in iphone 12 at the time of your search you would have gotten an Amazon ad telling you they have it to.

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rich saunders

What a bunch of kents.

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DChase

notice how its bold for the iPhone and not the 5, you have to be pretty stupid to click on the ad expecting to get iphone 5 details

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