Re:Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online
by random5634 on Monday February 15, 2021 @10:29PM
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No kidding.
What's interesting is the Chinese companies are actually getting better at this. It's usually multi-part.
* Post a meaningful deposit / security to list, more if you list more.
* Pretty involved complaint resolution process and tracking inventory by actual seller (no comingled inventory).
* Product spot checks by platform itself for stuff that sells a better
* Product spot checks let you also pick up the free product offers for good reviews game players this way.
* Real human support for review bombing situations and de-listings. If you can start untangling the knots a lot of the scam folks are all cross linked.
I've got plenty more, and no one is paying me $100K. So these platforms are mostly just lazy.
Eventually someone will build a knock-off amazon with more trust, and we'll all move there and just use amazon for AWS compute.
What's interesting is the Chinese companies are actually getting better at this. It's usually multi-part.
* Post a meaningful deposit / security to list, more if you list more.
* Pretty involved complaint resolution process and tracking inventory by actual seller (no comingled inventory).
* Product spot checks by platform itself for stuff that sells a better
* Product spot checks let you also pick up the free product offers for good reviews game players this way.
* Real human support for review bombing situations and de-listings. If you can start untangling the knots a lot of the scam folks are all cross linked.
I've got plenty more, and no one is paying me $100K. So these platforms are mostly just lazy.
Eventually someone will build a knock-off amazon with more trust, and we'll all move there and just use amazon for AWS compute.