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Absolutely this. I do it on a small scale already. Occasionally I'll order one of those "highly rated" things on Amazon and it's a total piece of shit, or comes with a card inside and it says something like "leave us a 5 star review and we'll send you a 2nd battery for free" or some shit like that.
I'll write a review and out them for leaving the bribery card inside, or I'll rate a shit product a 1 star review, and sometimes the company will offer me a refund and tell me I can keep the product if I take the review down.
I'll email them back agreeing to take the review down after I've been refunded the money. After I get the money I'll update the review to provide the information about trying to bribe me to remove my review.
Once, a company tried TWICE to get me to remove my review. The dumb fucks sent me a 2nd $40 Amazon gift card. Lol
Also, one extra note: unfortunately $250,000 doesn't even go that far. I'm not sure if this volunteer department buys most of their trucks 2nd hand or not, but for new trucks prices have drummed up so high that a Pumper (type of firetruck without the big ladder on top, that you would typically picture in you mind if you were to think of a firetruck) costs $1,000,000 or more. A ladder truck can run $2,000,000. This volunteer department has 10 trucks already. I'd guess something like one ladder truck, two or three pumpers, a couple brush truck, and two or three tanker trucks for hauling lots of water around.