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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by Shivetya on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:34PM (#21816048)
The review hijacking as covered in a recent consumer reports article [0] really makes me doubt any item with a significant number of reviews. I have seen similar myself and Amazon's excuse for it happening should not be accepted and probably requires intervention, they are in effect support false advertising and while I have not seen it myself I have seen people claim it occurs on amazon branded products too.

it is just not acceptable a shopping site has so little product integrity that they cannot guarantee a review belongs to the product it is attached too. Amazon could fix a lot of this by assigning each product a unique number that can never be reused; as in ever. Let the retailer point back to the previous version if review history is important but never let it appear as review of the viewed product

[0] https://www.consumerreports.org/customer-reviews-ratings/hij...

Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by sharkmerry on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:11PM (#21816590)
Just as a note, Consumer Reports definitely has a financial interest in putting down online reviews. Not that these issues dont exist, but Consumer Reports has its own set of flaws that they dont publish articles about.