Samsung Paid 500 People To
Attend Their S6 Press
Conference
According to reports from a popular website in
China – Wantchinatime.com , Samsung paid a total
of 500 people to pose as fans in the Samsung S6
and S6 Edge launch in China, barbaric isn’t
it?? Around 1000 people attended the event and the
reports claim that half of them were paid to be
there.
The news broke out after a recruiter, that was
responsible for recruiting these fake fans claimed
that they were paid were paid 30 yuan (US$4.80,
N1, 008) to show up at the event and stay for an
hour, while the recruiter earned 20 yuan (US$3.20)
from every person he recruited. The recruiter said
Samsung’s requirements was that they must be
younger than 30 and look like students so that it
would give the brand a vibrant look.
In case you don’t know, Samsung isn’t doing so
well in most Asian countries, as a matter of fact,
Xiaomi dethroned Samsung in 2014, while in India,
Samsung failed to attract new customers. These
statistics prove that small players, likes of Xiaomi,
Gionee, and Micromax, are eating into Samsung’s
market and the Korean smartphone giant is facing a
tough time to maintain brand loyalty. A report from
Slideshare also backed these statistics – see the
image below
Image Source: Slideshare.net
The report also claimed that the fans were asked to
tell the press that they were attending the event
because they were Samsung’s fan or were
interested in the S6. Another glitch in this story is
that the report claimed that half of the people were
taking the picture of Samsung Galaxy S6 or
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with their Apple iPhones.
Besides attending the event, every fake fan was
asked to take the picture of the event, post it on
their preferred social media network and share it
with their friends via messaging app. They were
also asked to “Like” the Samsung’s page on Baidu
network. Some of these paid fans also made more
than $8 by answering a Samsung ad on WeChat.
One of them told the news outlet that she went to
the event after reading a post on a microblog,
saying that Samsung offers secret gifts for
attendees.
In my opinion, I think the story sounds fishy, can
you tell me that Samsung couldn’t get 500 fans in
China that they had to pay people to show up? – if
the report is really true, then that is low for a tech
giant like Samsung.
Would keep you updated when Samsung responds
to these claims.

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