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| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: eti on September 08, 2020, 02:38:34 pm --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on September 06, 2020, 01:59:54 pm --- The fake reviews have been obvious for many years. Wonder what Amazon could actually do to help the situation? A couple of things spring to mind for starters: 1) If you change the product in the catalog, all the reviews disappear. They belong to a specific product. Exceptions can be made in rare cases but would be via telephone and authorized by Amazon on a case by case basis - it would not be the default. 2) A customer has to have purchased at least 25 different items on Amazon over a period of least 1 year to be allowed to write a review in the first place. --- End quote --- Go out of business, that would work, and no one would miss them. --- End quote --- Well, I'd miss them! - it really is a super convenient service they provide, and sometimes the prices are unbeatable. I've gotten pretty good at spotting "real" vs. "fake" reviews over the years, so I personally don't feel the noise level in the reviews is a major problem (as opposed to an irritant). I do get a lot out of well written reviews and I think they are an important feature of the site - Amazon should definitely step up their efforts to keep the review sections clean. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote --- I've gotten pretty good at spotting "real" vs. "fake" reviews over the years --- End quote --- How do you know? A review could be a fake 5* but it turns out to be a good product so the review seems good. Or the product is duff but it's mostly because of user error (Chinglish manual, coffee-deprived brain...) so the review seems fake even though it's not. --- Quote ---Well, I'd miss them! --- End quote --- Same here. Using Amazon regularly is a step change akin to switching from corner shops to supermarkets. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on September 08, 2020, 05:03:53 pm --- --- Quote --- I've gotten pretty good at spotting "real" vs. "fake" reviews over the years --- End quote --- How do you know? [...] --- End quote --- You can never be 100% certain of anything, but you can definitely get a pretty good idea of whether you, on balance, find the reviewer genuine. I generally look for detailed reviews, that show real knowledge/experience with the product, the kind that would be very hard to fake. If a review looks good, I sometimes click on the user's name and look at other reviews they've written, to get the gist of what kind of person it is and whether their reviews generally look reasonable or "scammy". It is a red flag if a user only has written one or two reviews, for example. (e.g. they created an account just to write the review, never to be seen again). |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on September 07, 2020, 06:56:26 am ---I rarely do reviews. But after buying a set of crimping tools which were wrongly described, I reviewed those with the proper information, and 1 star :p I also reviewed the set I ordered the second time, and even while I really liked that set, and it worked, I gave it only 4 stars. Why? Because there was a card in there, promising me a 10$ off coupon should I leave a 5 star review and send them a link to that via email... That is a practice I cannot support. Begging for good reviews normally puts me off completely. --- End quote --- Giving them 4 stars to "spite" them is just as bad as putting a fake 5 star just to get a coupon, in both cases you are not reviewing the quality of the product honestly. |
| MrMobodies:
--- Quote from: Refrigerator on September 06, 2020, 09:59:48 pm ---That's why i sort reviews by one star first. --- End quote --- I find it it takes someone unhappy to tell the truth and described in detail the issues and any pictures. I will always look at the negatives to find out what can go wrong with it to know what to expect. Many five star reviews "well it worked for me for now" but I sometimes I noticed when they were excessive 5 star reciews that most of them one had one review being to that purchase. I wonder, what else can these fake positive reviewers do, like try leaving "too good to be true feedback" with one or two star to try and douse out the negative reviews if there was enough of them but then that would be a sign that something is wrong. |
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