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Re:Negative reviews can boost sales even more than positive ... by kotlin2 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:50PM (#33264806)
There is a third-class of one-star reviews. Opposing businesses posing as disgruntled customers.
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Re:Negative reviews can boost sales even more than positive ... by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:47PM (#33266295)
And yet there's also a fourth class.

Shipping problems.

People will receive a box that looks like it fell off the truck and then got hit by every car that was driving behind it, and then leave a 1-star review on the item.

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Re:Negative reviews can boost sales even more than positive ... by Nextgrid on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:53PM (#33266364)
Fifth class would be when sellers repurpose old listings for totally different products, which keeps the reviews of the old product.

This is a super simple problem to solve technically (just require manual review when more than 10% of the description text changes), proving that Amazon is absolutely complicit in whatever bad shenanigans are happening on their platform.

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