Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’

Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by c2h5oh on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:59PM (#19670216)

They are trying and failing - my wife is a seller and easily 20-30% of completely valid positive reviews from repeat customers disappear without a trace.. at the same time a racist tyrade of a review from a buyer who has swastika as user avatar is impossible to get rid of ( 5 or 6 tries so far)

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by mschuster91 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:31AM (#19672457)

File an online criminal complaint at German police. We really don't like swastikas.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by ccozan on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:00PM (#19670526)

reading this, feels like ebay is a really nice place to sell stuff.

They might have their own issues, but feels more authentic.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by educationdata on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:19PM (#19670619)

Really? I feel selling stuff on ebay has a 1/5 chance get scammed.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by manmal on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @02:37AM (#19671592)

I don’t know what categories you shop there, but I have never been scammed. Often make sure to contact the seller beforehand though.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by muzika on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:06AM (#19671687)

It’s easy to get scammed SELLING on eBay. Buying is not much if a problem as you can get a refund easily as a buyer.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:29AM (#19673375)

I sell a huge amount of stuff on eBay (retro computing / gaming items) and have found it to be a really fantastic and friendly community. Perhaps it depends on the items being sold?

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by rchaud on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @02:05PM (#19675851)

Probably. You are selling in a niche that scammers likely don't care about. If you were selling a Macbook or iPhone, there'd probably be a lot of shady buyers.

I've bought a ton of stuff on Ebay, but only ever sold a laptop when I wasn't getting any bites on Craigslist. It was a limited-edition Dell laptop, so the buyer was really enthusiastic about it and you could tell he was a normal person and not a scammer.

Fortunately I live in a big city now and have never had issues selling in person via CL/Kijiji.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by astura on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:39AM (#19673107)

I've sold a couple hundred of items on eBay and I've never been scammed.

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