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Re:The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews by alecthomas on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:10PM (#36638933)
https://www.productreview.com.au/ is the only site I've ever seen that does a good job at user reviews. Each review has to be accompanied by a verifiable receipt.

Here's their operating model, which sounds like a mix of paid brand manager subscriptions and advertising: https://support.productreview.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/36000...

Re:The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews by jiveturkey on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:55PM (#36639351)
> verifiable receipt

lol. the current amazon scam is to purchase the product (ship to a random address to defeat “common address” detection) then leave the fake review

Re:The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews by alecthomas on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:22PM (#36639576)
Interesting but not relevant here - they require a photo of a physical receipt, and they're hand reviewed. Anything is scammable given enough effort though, no doubt.
Re:The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews by jiveturkey on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:37PM (#36640840)
that’s exactly the amazon scam, executed with a verified receipt and “hand reviewed”. or did you mean, manually moderated? that’s no obstacle.

for amazon the receipt is guaranteed authentic as the product will have been verifiably purchased on amazon. for a 3p site receipts can be trivially fabricated

Re:The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews by princevegeta89 on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:07PM (#36641019)
Btw how do they detect fake receipts, if at all?

I'm wondering as there are quite a handful of fake receipt generators on the internet