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Re:What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its B... by roland35 on Monday June 24, 2019 @09:00AM (#20263095)
I made a huge mistake ordering the top rated boxer-briefs from amazon mindlessly - the reviews seemed good! It turns out that they were terrible and when I did a little digging I found out the reviews were completely fake and if I had looked at the "unhelpful" reviews which were all 1 star I could have avoided some problems!
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Re:What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its B... by valiant55 on Monday June 24, 2019 @09:22AM (#20263287)
I ordered headphones from Amazon that had good reviews, over 1k. I was looking for a cheap pair to listen to music at work. What I got were really poorly made Chinese rip-offs of Sony. I went to process the return and all of the review except for a handful of 1 star reviews had been removed. Luckily the return went off with a hitch but it seems clear Amazon is at least trying to do something, even if their efforts are not sufficient.
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Re:What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its B... by silversconfused on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @05:07PM (#20278960)
Happened to me too. Useless things sound just like free airline headphones. I'm done with amazon.
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Re:What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its B... by zarmin on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:36AM (#20264577)
You need the FakeSpot extension :) https://fakespot.com
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Re:What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its B... by MattSayar on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:39PM (#20266883)
Surely Amazon is just as capable of running these analytics internally, right? So why don't they take action on it?
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Re:What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its B... by zarmin on Monday June 24, 2019 @09:53PM (#20270492)
They would lose business
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Re:What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its B... by roland35 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @01:09PM (#20276420)
I saw that website after the fact :'(

If anyone is up for a good laugh you can check out reviews here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071WYNY6N/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i...

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