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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by BHSPitMonkey on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:28PM (#12183318)
I do the same, but as time goes by I'm inherently less and less trustful of all of it. The incentive to manipulate ratings and reviews is just too great for sellers to ignore, and it's not as though Amazon can reliably measure review honesty.
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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by pduan on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:50PM (#12183460)
Use fakespot.com and use filtered by "Verified Purchase".
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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by brianwawok on Thursday July 28, 2016 @07:14PM (#12183895)
What does verified purchase matter when so many sellers pay people to review? Yes they really bought it, but for pennies on the dollar.
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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by rogerdpack on Thursday July 28, 2016 @08:54PM (#12184394)
Yeah I've started going for products that only have "hundreds" of reviews, and over several years, those are usually hard to game :)
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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by brianwawok on Friday July 29, 2016 @08:49AM (#12186453)
You are just upping the stake. Some people DO pay for hundreds of reviews. It just cost more to do.
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