Dr. Madre Fake Amazon Reviews – Greed Apparently Overwhelms Morals and Scruples with 81% of the Reviews being obviously FAKE!

Newer Update: It is truly Amazing that in about 11 hours since our last update below, Dr. Madre has posted 2 additional FAKE reviews on his Amazon listing for this alarm in the names of W. Berstler and P. Stein. Now we have 13 fake reviews out of 16, which is over 81% fake! We are speculating that this person behind Dr. Madre must be unbelievably naive, very stupid, or have an extreme sense of infallibility that he can get away with this illicit behavior forever, or a combination of these traits. 

Update: 9 hours after the original entry below.
Dr. Madre is going strong . We just saw another obviously fake Amazon review which is in the very same nature as the other fake reviews. This is in the name of M. Dryden. So now we have 11 fake reviews out of a total of 14. That is almost 80% fake! Here we seem to have a person so overwhelmed by greed that he has no problems about thumbing his nose at Amazon and Amazon's customers, while displaying very poor ethics and scruples. It does make us wonder about the naivety of the Dr. Madre selling this alarm, and how far he will be allowed to proceed along this path of ill repute.

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We have been pointing out the excessive illicit behavior of Theos Medical Systems and its owner Saket Bhatia with respect to their Chummie products for about two and a half years. Much of this has been on Amazon with extensive manipulation of Amazon Reviews. Now we have another candidate who is plastering Amazon Reviews with fake invented reviews.

Dr. Madre came onto the bedwetting alarms scene on Amazon.com in October, 2015 or thereabouts. We should point out that Dr. Madre’s alarm is manufactured by “Modo Technologies” in China, and is abundantly offered by many sellers in the U.S. and elsewhere. This alarm is the “old” version of the Nytone alarm, which currently sells for about the same price on Amazon. Modo was making this, and since Nytone is no longer getting it from Modo, Modo is dumping these on the market for whoever wants to donate their money to Modo. These sellers seem to come and go. They have not spent any time or money on the design or development of this product, and their commitment is only to unload the units that they have purchased from Modo. Modo has no obligations or assurance of continuity or support, and nor do these sellers. 

Very shortly after the appearance of Dr. Madre’s bedwetting alarm on Amazon, four 5-star reviews appeared on October 16, 2015 written by:

RC

Katherine H

Kait

Silas P

To us these reviews seem obviously fake and written by the same person. We have written very adequately about some of the tests we apply to determine if an Amazon Review is a fake. These four reviews are undoubtedly so.

Most Amazon customers are very gullible and look at Amazon reviews with an air of complete trust in the accuracy and truth of the reviews. They can be easily overwhelmed by reviews and the “stars” on the reviews, without questioning the truth of these reviews. The quantity of reviews and stars are all that appears to matter to these unsuspecting persons. There is also a strong "herd instinct" in Amazon customers. Rather than forming their own opinion based on facts, they often believe that because a product has been purchased by many people, it must be good. So they purchase it without much thought and without comprehending that this "popularity" is often caused by a "snow-ball effect," where a snow-ball can result in an avalanche, and may be unrelated to the actual qualities of a product. This gullibility has been extensively exploited by Chummie to both boost his own products and to bad-mouth competitor’s products. As Amazon did not take any action over Dr. Madre’s phony reviews, it seems that Dr. Madre was overwhelmed by his short-term success and so decided to indulge in more fake reviews. Greed often overwhelms fear. All of these newer reviews are written on November 24, through 26 by:

Noell D

Alvan S

Marliani

Coutney A

Miles P

Garrek

M. Dryden
P. Stein
W. Berstler

All of these “reviewers” have purchased either one or two products, the same one or two products including this alarm, and only Dr. Madre’s products. The dates of the reviews and the content and style of the reviews leave very little doubt in our minds that the same person has written all of these reviews. Although we cannot say with absolute certainty that all of these reviews are fake, there is an extremely high probability that they are fake and written by the same surrogate of Dr. Madre. We ask readers to look at these 13 reviews listed above and currently on Amazon.com and confirm for themselves that they are very likely fakes. We should also mention that we keep a record of these reviews and reviewers.

So we have a new competitor competing with Chummie for the “crown” of providing the most fake reviews for a product being extensively hyped with fake reviews. In fact, on a percentage of fake reviews to total reviews, Dr. Madre has surpassed Chummie very substantially. 

13 out of a total of 16 reviews are fake. That is 81% are fake reviews!

Now ask how many “suckers” would be buying Dr. Madre’s bedwetting alarm if it only had 3 reviews, instead of 16. And while these mostly-fake 16 reviews have 13 5-stars, only 2 of the 3 had 5-stars. Dr. Madre, like his predecessor Chummie, appears to be overwhelmed by greed and what he believes he has going for himself at Amazon. Morals and scruples do not appear to be interfering with his misbehavior.

Amazon, are you paying any attention to this seller’s very abundant use of false and fake reviews? How long are you going to tolerate this? How long is Nytone going to tolerate being undercut by a competitor with no skin in the game except for the items purchased from Modo and using unethical reviews to boost his sales of a similar-to-Nytone product on Amazon? Frankly, the only problem that we would have with Dr. Madre’s bedwetting alarm being sold by Amazon is that it is not registered with the FDA. By FDA regulations this alarm cannot be shipped from a U.S. shipment point. However, this extensive placement of false reviews on Amazon does lead us to request U.S. customers to withhold their business from Dr. Madre’s alarm, the sales of which are illicitly and unethically promoted through these 81% fake reviews!

We also want to point out that many of the newest fake reviews also involved Dr. Madre's Medical Infrared Thermometer which is sold by Dr. Madre on Amazon. We also found another site at
fakespot.com 
which had also detected this abundant fraud for this infrared thermometer. According to fakespot.com, 61% of Dr. Madre's Amazon reviews are fake for this item. We can say that many of the fake Dr. Madre "customers" that had placed fake reviews for the bedwetting alarm also place fake reviews for this thermometer. Dr. Madre appears to have benefited substantially from these many fake reviews for the thermometer, which Amazon has given a "# 1" popularity rating in its category. Dr. Madre is obviously extending this fake reviews policy to its bedwetting alarm.

Here we have an Amazon seller, Dr. Madre, who is completely illicit and wrongful in extensively abusing Amazon reviews and consequently Amazon customers and others who may refer to the Amazon reviews and are completely misled by these many fake reviews apparently posted by D. Madre. We again ask:
Amazon, are you paying any attention to this seller’s very abundant use of false and fake reviews? How long are you going to tolerate this?
 

Fake Claims at Chummie - The Sorry Awards that Chummie Claims.

We have expressed our concern over and been pointing out the excessive fake content that Chummie's owner Saket Bahtia (Bhatia) has been dumping on the public to convince them that his antiquated Chummie alarms are exceptional. One of his touts has always been the words "Award winning." Since we are well aware of his strong tendency to say whatever suits him, as opposed to whatever is factual and true, we thought it appropriate to look into these awards that Chummie is supposed to have won.

We could find nothing on Chummie's web site which indicated what awards Chummie received. Nor was there anything on Chummie's product page on Amazon, eBay or any other site that Bhatia was trying to sell his alarms on. For example, on the Chummie site as Reason # 1 for buying a Chummie alarm, Bhatia claims "Chummie has won numerous awards for outstanding technology and product line." But no listing of the awards.

Then, wonder of wonders, on his Facebook page, starting with the words "Award Winning Bedwetting Alarm" we read 

OK. So we checked on these awards, both who may be giving them and what award was given. We did a Google Search for the awarding party by itself, which should show whether such an organization exists. We also searched for the award party together with Chummie or Theos or Bhatia to try and identify what award Chummie may have received. So, going down the above list:

1.            National Pediatric Society of India. There is no such organization or party.

2.            Silicon Valley Awards. The organization exists but appears to be an organization controlled and peopled by persons of Indian background in that area. We would very substantially discount such an award, given to a local Indian. Very poor and dubious value, being given an award by what could be considered to be a club of local Indians.

3.            Pediatric Association of Oman. This exists, but we could find no reference to Chummie or its parent. An Arab country with a population of about 3 millions, and not exactly modern. Even IF there is some award, how much credence can we give to such an award? Very poor and dubious value, if there is any.

4.            Pediatric Urology Society of Hungary. We could find a single reference for 2002, many years before Chummie/Theos existed, which was a very short statement of its history. No other reference could be found. Any award from such a small "may not be there" organization, IF there is an award, would be of very poor and dubious value.

5.            Indian Academy of Pediatric Urology. There is no such organization or party.

6.            Pediatric Society of Malaysia. There is no organization or party of this name.

So, the only "award" we could verify is provided to Bhatia by his buddies at the Silicon Valley Awards. As we said earlier, an award of very poor and dubious value.

The other organizations that Bhatia references are all non-existent, or in out-of-the-way places and may not be in existence.

So more fake nonsense or gross exaggerations from Bhatia. He does appear to have a devious mind and suggests non-existing or very remote organizations as having given him awards. This way he is unlikely to be confronted by the "award giving" organization for fraud, defamation, misrepresentation, or any other term that a bona fide lawyer would consider to be appropriate. But he cannot fathom that the fakery that he considers to be acceptable is repugnant to most of the world.

Another grand dose of hype from the master of trickery! Wake up America! And you too, World!

Deceit and Trickery at Chummie - Systemic Deception by Saket Bhatia and Theos Medical Systems.

Fraud

Noun

1.   deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage. 

2.   a particular instance of such deceit or trickery. 

3.   any deception, trickery, or humbug.

4.    a person who makes deceitful pretenses; sham; poseur.

Since May, 2013 we have been expressing our concern and disgust at Theos Medical Systems, the maker of Chummie, and the extensive deceit and other wrong doings being perpetuated by Saket Bhatia, its owner. The recent lawsuit in which Theos Medical Systems (Theos) and Saket Bhatia (Bhatia) were the defendants, laid out numerous areas of deceptive practices and imposed corrections on Theos and Bhatia for past and future behavior that would be necessary. Although by U.S. law Theos Medical System is a corporate entity, there can be no doubt that Theos is simply a facade for the will and operation of Saket Bhatia. We have every reason to believe that all of the deceit pointed out in this blog can be attributed to Saket Bhatia, directly and indirectly. In some instances there can be little doubt that Bhatia has paid and/or directed other persons to be his surrogates, and so bears responsibility for these misdeeds. All references to Bhatia made in this blog relate to his involvement with Theos and related matters.

As the dictionary definitions above stipulate, most of the misbehavior described in this blog can be applied to one or more of the above definitions. We admit that we are not legal experts. We emphasize that we are using the English language definition and meaning of the word fraud, a dictionary definition of the word being copied above. Individually or as a group this misbehavior certainly falls into that domain. What we have is consistent and systemic misbehavior by Bhatia against the public and against competitors. We have hoped that adequate public exposure would cause Bhatia to stop his unscrupulous activities. We have yet to notice Bhatia’s stopping his trickery and virulent activities

Frankly, this continuing salacious behavior does raise significant questions with its rejection of American mores and laws, and constantly playing Russian roulette with a loaded gun. Ignoring a Judge's Order and playing the outlaw does have us wondering about the lack of apparent rationality and the unwillingness to see the coming catastrophe brought on by one's own actions. What can we ascribe such behavior towards? Desperation, where the scrambled mind cannot fathom much? Extreme arrogance, where one believes oneself to be invincible and above and beyond the laws and morals of the land? Or is it simply a matter of substantial irrationality, as suggested earlier, brought on by one's apparent success in fooling the masses and large institutions like Amazon and seemingly dodging the bullet for almost five years?

We have pointed out in the last blog entry that Bhatia has failed to fulfill the orders of the Court which he had consented and agreed to do. His deceitful misrepresentations on his company’s web site continue, together with the fake reviews of his products on Amazon’s various sites. It would certainly be in the public’s best interests if the Court would address Bhatia’s lack of complete cooperation in fulfilling his legal and social obligations. Perhaps the Plaintiff in the case should bring this to the Court’s attention.

We keep on noticing the continuing deception by Bhatia claiming that Costco is selling their antiquated Chummie alarm. Costco stopped selling it or advertising it some time ago. Costco has certainly removed all reference to the Chummie alarm on its web site. Theos/Bhatia, on the other hand, still has it plastered on every electronic wall-space, including Chummie’s web site. As we have often pointed out, observing ethical and even legal standards or complying with them has been something that Bhatia has no trouble ignoring, or even flaunting.

Bhatia continues to deceptively and illicitly promote his Chummie products, particularly on Amazon and its web sites, where Bhatia’s reckless and extensive abuse of Amazon Reviews has been established with hard evidence, both for Amazon and the U.S. District Court for Northern California. We point out how on sites like eBay where Bhatia cannot blatantly abuse reviews, his products’ performances are very poor. In fact, Bhatia is deceiving Amazon customers into purchasing his Chummie products through extensive fake Amazon Reviews, many of which will still remain even when, and if, Bhatia removes the fake reviews as ordered by the Court but covering only a limited period of time. Bhatia’s abusing Amazon Reviews also continues in his using the reviews and Amazon itself to falsely attack competitors with fake and absurd inventions. Bhatia appears to be a person who has extensively examined Amazon and its practices so that he can jump through all the holes that he can find, and effectively abuse Amazon's system for his own benefit and get away with it. As we have recently stated, Amazon’s going after and prosecuting the persons who take payments to provide fake reviews is well and good. It would be even better and more effective to go after the sellers who are paying for and promoting such fake reviews, and persons who extensively and persistently abuse Amazon's system for their personal advancement and to the detriment of competitors who do not indulge in such abuse of Amazon's system. We believe that it is also necessary for Amazon to identify and prosecute persons or parties who are falsely trying to send completely bogus and trumped up charges to Amazon about competitors. When and if Amazon were to do this, we have no doubts that Saket Bhatia and all of his repugnant contrivances would be doomed. More about this later.

Meanwhile we continue to ask that the public everywhere be made adequately aware of the high and prevalent levels of deceit underlying many acts and practices of Theos Medical Systems, its owner Saket Bhatia, the illicit promotion of its Chummie products and the continuing unscrupulous attacks on competitors. We assume that Bhatia does not live with a blindfold over his eyes and still has a mind which functions. We also assume that Bhatia, in spite of what appears to be his personal sense of imperiousness and infallibility,  is sufficiently aware of the illegality of many of his acts, and apart from any lawsuits brought against him by wronged parties (the unfavorable signed consent decree that he received in the U.S. Court of the Northern District of California is a recent example) he could face prosecution by local, state and federal authorities. We wonder if the many people who have participated in his nefarious schemes realize that they could face similar charges, either directly, or as aiding and abetting or participating with Bhatia in these illicit activities. Being an employee or a friend or a relative does not absolve them of these possible charges.

So we wait to see if the trigger will again be pulled by Bhatia on his Russian roulette gun.

We also continue to demonstrate how very poorly Chummie's antiquated and over-priced alarms fare of eBay compared to their competition: