Did Samsung pay people to attend its S6 press conference in China?

05 April, 2015
According to Shanghai-based news outlet The Paper, half of the 1,000-strong audience was hired.

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  • 05 Apr 2015

Anonymous, 05 Apr 2015The minimum wage in Shanghai is about 2.77 USD. The young ... moreat a wage of 2,77 USD you mean to tell mean a person in china pays the minimum wage for about 30 years to buy an iphone?......dude get real

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    • 05 Apr 2015

    Anonymous, 05 Apr 2015The minimum wage in Shanghai is about 2.77 USD. The young ... more"those who spent more than an hour at the event were paid $4.80 per person, while recruiters were paid $3.20 for each person they recruited"

    Do you know how to read? and why are you adding up stories?
    Looks like your the writer of this Speculated, Uneducated writing..Duh?!

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      • IaM
      • 05 Apr 2015

      Anonymous, 05 Apr 2015The minimum wage in Shanghai is about 2.77 USD. The young ... more2,77 usd wage....thats bull...

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        • 4$v
        • 05 Apr 2015

        AnonD-126854, 05 Apr 2015No matter how many times you repost this iBS, I've already ... moreYou seem to be confusing opinion with fact. You couldn't refute a single point I made. Stop being such a blind sheep.

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          • Anonymous
          • 4$v
          • 05 Apr 2015

          Muthu, 05 Apr 2015I am a neutral and I am not a fanboy of Sammy or Apple. Wha... moreThe minimum wage in Shanghai is about 2.77 USD. The young people they hired basically received double the minimum wage for this event. Keep in mind the article never said the people using iPhones were hired. Many of them could have been legitimate journalists. The article also mentioned someone who received over $8 for being there only 15 mins. That's over 10 times the minimum wage for equivalent work.

          Just because someone owns an iPhone does not mean they are well off. That's a stereotype a lot of people on this article seem to love to perpetuate.

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            • IaM
            • 05 Apr 2015

            Anonymous, 05 Apr 2015I was expecting many dirty tricks like this from the apple'... moredude as much as i agree with you and your comment you are repeating youself

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              • Rbq
              • 05 Apr 2015

              Clearly the news is made up by butt-hurt ifans. Samsung could have invited thousands of people to the event for free plus free gift.

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                • TXn
                • 05 Apr 2015

                I was expecting many dirty tricks like this from the apple's propaganda. They are mad that many ifans are in love with S6 Edge. So I'm not surprised. LOL
                But I'm more interested HOW MUCH $ got, the guy that "report" it, and how much the menial media get , to spread this iBS everywhere WITHOUT CHECKING it.
                The method is;, to throw some shits , and after that even if cleaning them, to hope some smell to left.
                Disgusting.

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                  • Ibx
                  • 05 Apr 2015

                  joe sHmoe, 05 Apr 2015This report doesnt that much logic on it.You see if the rep... morePunctuation marks are your friend.

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                    • K1F
                    • 05 Apr 2015

                    Apple with it's Rentina low display ratio claim human eyes can only see that much, others with high display ratio are nonsenses, That's Apple way of tech, bravo Apple fan's, wear your spectacle without lenses that's what Apple fans are, lol

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                      • 05 Apr 2015

                      Not surprising. Samesung up to its usual tricks.

                        If half of the people were hired in China it's same here (no offense) let's say did Samsung paid users to make "trending phones of the week" looks like its owned by Samsung?
                        No it didn't.

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                          • joe sHmoe
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                          • 05 Apr 2015

                          This report doesnt that much logic on it.You see if the report was true then we should already have leaks of the pictures that were shot from those iphone using people in the conference and also the it was just a conference of all the type of publicity stunts a company could do why fake a conference to show people why they have a new product for release?

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                            • IaM
                            • 05 Apr 2015

                            Anonymous, 05 Apr 2015How come those fake people(who earns $3/hour) have/afford i... morethey got those iphones free with bubblegum cheap stuff

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 7Gx
                              • 05 Apr 2015

                              How come those fake people(who earns $3/hour) have/afford iphones? Clearly this seems to be a fake news from apple fans. LoL

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                                • Anonymous
                                • IaM
                                • 05 Apr 2015

                                AnonD-361638, 05 Apr 2015Rich people go for discounted things but won't stand for ho... moreso what you are saiyng is that apple users are just wanabe rich people....and after buiyng an iphone sell theirselves to sammy for 5 bucks to get a piece of bread

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                                  • 05 Apr 2015

                                  AnonD-9000, 05 Apr 2015dont be hypocrite, even rich people went to shop discounted... moreRich people go for discounted things but won't stand for hour for just 5$...if they r doing this then they r not rich people.

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                                    • 05 Apr 2015

                                    its all apple who want to let down other companies before peoples by their paid reviewer which makes virtual and fake hypothesis. So that they can sell their products at high prices.

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                                      • 05 Apr 2015

                                      Anonymous, 05 Apr 2015those audience was paid less then $5, and u said they are p... moreBro i hv said LoL in last.

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                                        • IaM
                                        • 05 Apr 2015

                                        [deleted post]no one is shocked we all know how apple works