Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’

Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by fma on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:59PM (#19670218)

I was in the market for headphones. I bought a pair and was looking for another because I was dissatisfied. I saw my exact model under another listing...but oddly it had ~150 5 stars. I thought no way in hell THESE were loved by everyone. Every single review was made in the same day, with broken English reviews.

These were electronics, and knockoff airpods to boot. But if I 100% need the real thing, I buy else where. For example I just purchased several bottles of Vitamin D for my infant. I'm not trusting Amazon even though Amazon would have shipped faster.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by BostonEnginerd on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:08PM (#19670276)

I never buy anything on Amazon that I put in my body. They really need to get this issue under control. It's a huge trust problem for me.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by chadash on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:07PM (#19670556)

Totally agree. I won't but stuff on Amazon for ME to eat. Much more so anything that's going into a baby's body.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by beauzero on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:40PM (#19670698)

Been using Swanson Vitamins for about 10 years. Decent website, excellent vitamins. Smaller mom and pop b-to-c that has been online since the first .com bubble.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by Trisell on Monday April 15, 2019 @11:20PM (#19670869)

My wife uses it for our family as well. If you watch you can catch really good sales as well.

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