From ‘rainbow tomatoes’ to ‘rainbow roses’ and ‘rainbow chrysanthemums’,
the horticultural Facebook forums are full of excited gardening
newbies, tricked into buying these fake seeds off the back of obviously
photo-shopped or faked images.
A quick check today reveals four seemingly legitimate websites
selling such seeds, all four websites are registered to similar
addresses in China. The seeds are ALL completely fake but appear
on Google and on eBay with multiple websites to get around Google’s
‘one advertising account’ policy.
Gardeners! What you need to do today – click to waste their cash!
These companies are actually paying Google each time somebody clicks on one of their adverts or ‘Google shopping’ listings (and yes that might make you suspicious about why Google hasn’t clamped down on them…).
So here’s what you can do for the next few days:
Please conduct a Google search for ‘rainbow tomatoes’ (OR CLICK HERE) then click on each of the three companies shown in the top left corner of the Google results (those with a ridiculous photo-shopped rainbow image. Each time YOU click, THEY pay,
and if we all click en masse regularly as a gardening community they
will soon be spending a fortune selling nothing and go away – nobody
wants to lose money.
