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A comment on Amazon's Fake Review Problem.

Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by danbower on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:40PM (#15941482)
Well the situation does seem quite bad when you see people who leave fake reviews become brazen enough to actually advertise their services on Amazon itself [1]. I reported this review about 10 days ago and it's still up. The email address provided appears on hundreds of product listings [2]. When they can't even filter out nonsense like this I can only assume they put zero effort into tackling fake reviews.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R7J38CTD1MNT0

[2] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:amazon.co.uk+sohant85...

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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by Theodores on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:25AM (#15944500)
...this is sad in the instance you describe because the actual seller did not request that 'advert for reviews' and it now marks their product as 'fake'. Yet the actual seller is legit and doing a great job according to 'fakespot'. Sample listing:

https://www.fakespot.com/company/ketdirect

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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by yborg on Sunday December 17, 2017 @12:05PM (#15946529)
Looks like someone at Amazon at least reads HN, it's dead now.
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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by yesenadam on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:34PM (#15942262)
Nice investigative work there.
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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by dhimes on Saturday December 16, 2017 @03:22PM (#15941794)
Holy smokes!
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