Re:Amazon Review Scam
by damnencryption on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:04PM
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I agree.
I am just saying Amazon has no reason to differentiate between real people or bot people if the OP continued to buy from them despite their critical reviews being rejected. Amazon doesn't care about their past purchase history as long as they buy more from them in future. Whether they spent 50k or not didn't make a differentiating factor for Amazon.
> if the OP continued to buy
Again, the goal isn't to "stop bots from buying", but rather to stop them from posting fake reviews. You're reframing the whole discussion to something that has zero relevance to the discussion.
OP is saying that Amazon has exactly zero reasons to change its ways if it makes zero difference to their income. They deleted the reviews of a reputable customer. Will he keep on buying from Amazon like he did before? Yes. So will there be any downsides for Amazon for deleting reputable customers' reviews? No. Money will keep flowing, resentment is irrelevant. So, they will keep deleting reputable customers' reviews, because changing that takes effort, and effort costs, and cost have to lead to more profits to be justified.
The $50k thing has nothing to do with status, it has to do with amazon already possessing a very good signal as to whether or not this account is "real".
It is potentially interesting in the context of whether or not amazon is in fact serious about improving SNR in their review system.