Hello Henrix,
First, let me explain why I moved your thread. General Forex Talk is for non-commercial discussions, and there is no way to address this claim without bringing up the names of multiple brokers.
Let me get this straight. Some person (called TruncatedUsernam) who joined BabyPips last month made an unsupported claim. He said the FPA removes negative reviews for SolidECN for money and you believed him?
Did you look at SolidECN's review page at the FPA?
www.forexpeacearmy.com/forex-reviews/19636/solidecn-review
The rating was 1.824 stars, but just dropped to 1.673 stars because of a new review being approved. If the FPA is so easily bribed, why isn't that rating a lot higher?
ZForex is rated 5 Stars. Just in case one of my review moderators turned to the dark side, I checked all the reviews that were not approved. No one has submitted a negative review for ZForex at the FPA. If someone does, it will be processed EXACTLY the same way as positive reviews are.
The thread also mentions LQDFX. They currently are rated 3.495 on their FPA review page. I the FPA is taking bribes, why is there a pair of 1 Star reviews in their Helpful reviews block? (Note: A separate block for helpful reviews is a new feature that is being implemented. Not all FPA review pages have it. Not all FPA review pages have enough reviews to make the split. I only have about 3000 more pages to check.) They also have a 1 Star review in their recent block of reviews. You can see for yourself here...
www.forexpeacearmy.com/forex-reviews/13035/lqdfx-forex-brokers
The final broker I see mentioned is Coinexx, currently rated 3.311 Stars at the FPA. Go here...
www.forexpeacearmy.com/forex-reviews/14988/coinexx-forex-brokers
and explain to me the 2 Star review in its helpful block and also the four 1 Star reviews and 2 Star review on the first five Recent Reviews.
It's easy to claim ALL review sites are corrupt, but if you believe that, why do you even try to trade forex? The natural followup of all review sites being corrupt is that every forex broker is a scam and is paying to hide every truthful review.
I do know that many review sites are corrupt. I see reviews the FPA rejected as obvious fakes get approved on other review sites. I once was having a conversation with a very high end SEO specialist. He asked how much the FPA charged to "fix" a review page. When I finally got it through his thick skull that the FPA does not take bribes and moderates reviews as honestly as humanly possible, he was shocked. I'm sure he was disappointed too, since he then knew he could offer companies listed in our reviews a way to hide their bad information.
If a company advertises or wants to advertise at the FPA and even hints at somehow improving their rating, they are told that advertising money buys banner ads, nothing else. They are also referred to items in the FAQ. This one says they do not get special treatment
www.forexpeacearmy.com/community/threads/do-advertisers-get-special-treatment-in-the-forums-and-reviews.42572/
and this one says the FPA does not remove items, but is happy to mark them as Resolved if the company can resolve the issue...
www.forexpeacearmy.com/community/threads/how-can-negative-reviews-and-forums-posts-at-the-forex-peace-army-be-removed.42569/
Most bribe attempts aren't very direct. But sometimes there are direct bribe attempts. If the FPA was taking bribes, why would I post this as an answer to someone who wanted to know the FPA's fee schedule? This sort of post would scare away all the people who want to throw money at me...
www.forexpeacearmy.com/r/general-articles/1745/first-bribe-attempt-of-2020
Since I know many people won't check the link, I'd like to quote something from it...
Lxxx, I promised you a fee schedule. I’m going to keep my promise. Here it is…
If you send me $1, nothing will be removed.
If you send me $1000, nothing will be removed.
If you send me $10,000, nothing will be removed.
If you send me $100,000, nothing will be removed.
Keep sending more and nothing will be removed.
So, Lxxx, the real cost is zero, because the FPA doesn’t sell what you want to buy. If you or anyone else doesn’t believe me, please go ahead and send all the money you like and watch nothing be removed. This will change your unethical bribe attempt into a test to show the FPA’s ethics can’t be purchased, so you will at least get a few karma points for your efforts.
If you want, join the thread at BabyPips and let TruncatedUsernam and anyone else backing up his incorrect claim know about this thread. Tell them that they can come here and ask.
Tell them they can even test it themselves. Tell them to try to bribe the FPA to remove even a single review. Tell them they can try to bribe the FPA to produce a fake review to promote a company. Tell them they can send 100% of their net worth and nothing will be removed or added.
Bill K.
FPA Forums and Reviews Administrator