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Re:What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”? by pergadad on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:44PM (#20099036)
That could work if Amazon started fixing reviews but for now most reviews are spam. All the China products have raving reviews.
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Re:What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”? by swamp40 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @06:19PM (#20099807)
Why don't they only let you review items that you have purchased using the same account? Too simple I guess.
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Re:What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”? by ardy42 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:34PM (#20101248)
> Why don't they only let you review items that you have purchased using the same account? Too simple I guess.

Doing that would help, but probably not as much as you'd think. A lot of the fake review scams have the reviewers purchase the products legitimately and then get reimbursed through Paypal.

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Re:What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”? by ceejayoz on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @09:38PM (#20100803)
They do highlight reviews from users who actually purchased the item. That's why there's a thriving business in free products in exchange for good reviews.

Giving away a few hundred or thousand items can lead to huge sales numbers.

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Re:What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”? by colejohnson66 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:27PM (#20100491)
The idea is that people may have bought it somewhere other than Amazon and to let them post a review. Amazon does distinguish between “verified purchase”s and not
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