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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by JadeNB on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:24PM (#18860359)
> Don't forget the reviews! Buying the right one is often more important than buying one today.

Amazon itself seems to have forgotten this; reviews used to be very useful, but either they're not trying very hard to combat fake reviews or they're not up to the challenge, because they're almost useless now for big-ticket items.

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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by ascar on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:06PM (#18861693)
In my experience the reviews are most useless for small items, where fake reviews can easily manipulate the reviews or are even the only reviews available.
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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by JadeNB on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:34PM (#18862295)
> In my experience the reviews are most useless for small items, where fake reviews can easily manipulate the reviews or are even the only reviews available.

Yeah, 'big ticket' wasn't the right word; probably I meant 'commodity'. I meant to exclude things like reviews of obscure books, which sellers apparently usually don't bother trying to game, since they seem to be reasonably reliable (at least, last time I checked, which was a while ago …).

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