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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by Can_Not on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:44AM (#25464494)
Often I'll find that all the five star reviews describe a completely different product.
Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by alpaca128 on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:55AM (#25465548)
That's the trick where the seller replaces a good product's name, description and picture, which effectively transfers all existing(positive) reviews to a different product. Which only shows how many people don't look at a single review if the score is good enough.

The other trick that Amazon doesn't give a damn about is using the mechanism meant for different product colors and sizes to combine multiple products into a shared entry, which mixes all the reviews together and makes it basically impossible for the customer to see the score for each individual item.

As far as I can tell Amazon's only reaction was to start banning customers who returned too many products. I wonder why.