The company had a referral system in place such that 5 referrals meant the referrer obtained free LifeShield monitoring for life. Why would someone slant a review such that they could get a bad product for free?
It was much later that LifeShield announced a new program that gave $150 for each referral; this was a good while after the review of the product.
In your article you say, "reviews of the LifeShield products and services (March, 2010), they had a referral system in place. If I got 5 referrals, I’d get free security system monitoring for life. They provided a link to give to possible customers. I used it all over my reviews. I personally knew 3 parties that had purchased systems via my referral link, but I figured there were more that I didn’t know about..."
The article clearly does not support the new claim that "the review existed when there was no referral program in place".
I strongly recommend your article for detailed reading by anyone who feels that anything I have said misrepresents the situation as you are stating.