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eti:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/4/21423429/amazon-top-reviewers-uk-fraud

Also, water is wet, sky is blue and Amazon are shadier than their namesake jungle.
MK14:
Youtuber explains the various ways, 5 star reviews are being faked, on Amazon.
E.g. Nice real 5* product, being later switched, for a similar, but inferior, junk product.
Buyers being paid back some money, via paypal, if they give a 5*** review.
Extra accessories being sent, if they give a 5*** review.

SilverSolder:

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.




MK14:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on September 06, 2020, 01:59:54 pm ---Wonder what Amazon could actually do to help the situation?

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They themselves (Amazon), are sometimes part of the problem. Eg. Grouping together similar items, that they sell, with combined feedback reviews for all the items. Such as different sizes of products, such as TV/monitor sizes. Old/new models under the same reviews, etc etc.
So, an external hard disk drive (USB), was actually good/reliable/fast, a few years ago, when it was the original model.
They then replace that model (possibly by keeping the old name and model number, but maybe 179B rather than 179A). But the 179A was a good quality item, but the new (cost reduced) 179B model, is completely different.

Although it seems to have the same specification, it is now unreliable, slow, noisy, not recognised reliably by windows and of poor quality.
Yet it shares the feedback with the old model.
Some people (including me), find this very annoying, sometimes.


--- Quote from: SilverSolder on September 06, 2020, 01:59:54 pm ---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.

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The problem with that, would be anyone who have not purchased so many items. May have genuinely received a faulty/bad/problematic item. But would be excluded from giving the item (correctly) a bad review.
MyHeadHz:
Amazon does the exact same thing, even with products shipped from and sold by them.  Now with most of the subsidies taken away buying a substandard part from China isn't really an option anymore because it costs about the same as the legitimate product.  Amazon has also been getting political as well.

Increasingly, the only options are a cheap knockoff from China or an overpriced but high-end product from a low-volume US company.  The whole "decent product at a decent price" category is being abandoned for the most part.
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