Amazon Review Scam

Re:Amazon Review Scam by Shivetya on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:22PM (#25041592)

there are lots of current one star reviews that prove otherwise. If anything I surf one star and two star reviews of products I am buying and factor in the date of the review to see if a product improved or got worse.

Now what I do find inexcusable are reviews that are obviously not for the product I am looking at. I will report abuse on those but I do admit that I do not go back and check if they removed

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Re:Amazon Review Scam by asddubs on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @05:37AM (#25044475)

I have in the past independently bought something on amazon and later found out the reviews were fake (because every single person leaving a review had left reviews on the same few products - it was only 7 reviews total or so, so it was easy to check) - I reported this and I also left a 1 star review on the product I had bought. It got taken down. The fake reviews stayed up

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Re:Amazon Review Scam by LorenPechtel on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:28PM (#25050468)

Yeah, I look more at the 1-3 star reviews and see what they are complaining about. A lot are bogus (they got what they ordered, not what they expected) or not related to the product (shipping errors etc) but once you weed out the junk they provide a much better picture of the product than the highly rated ones do.

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