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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by asdf21 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:12PM (#21817440)
Your decently-sized QA department would investigate, case-by-case.

Some examples would probably be controversial and you'd need to escalate to a higher tier of analysis.

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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by dkonofalski on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:38PM (#21817774)
The issue here is that, like YouTube, it's so simple to create a new account that you'd just be chasing an endless stream of nothingness. I mean, just look at Amazon's review system. That's a system that they actually do investigate and have a department for and yet there are hundreds of thousands of sellers that have fake reviews and paid reviews for lots of different products and brands.
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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by DrScump on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:06PM (#21820450) 

  Your decently-sized QA department would investigate, case-by-case
This describes The Real Real's business model perfectly... but turns out a lot of their "curated" stuff... wasn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21477730

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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by asdf21 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:22PM (#21820883)
Wow, very cool. That's a $1.6B company I've never even heard of.

The stock hasn't gone down at all since that article was published either. They must be doing something right..

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