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Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store by llm_nerd on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @07:36AM (#43691376)
>More than 50% of those are below 3 stars.

Do you make bad purchasing decisions? How could "over 50%" of 200+ purchases be two star or fewer? Why would you still patronize Amazon if this is your experience?

>They don't suppress any legitimate reviews.

While I don't think they do -- Amazon, like Temu, is a marketplace of sellers, and they let the bad sellers die -- you aren't really in a position to say if they do or not. Amazon's algorithm for surfacing and/or aggregating reviews is not something we can audit in any real manner.

Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store by throwaway290 on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @01:13PM (#43695727)
Some people treat it like an adventure or a gamble or are just too curious, they know it's hit or miss but it's cheap and usually you can return it easily. See Atomic Shrimp channel for example. I don't get those people but I don't judge
Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store by iLoveOncall on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @04:56PM (#43698291)
> Do you make bad purchasing decisions? How could "over 50%" of 200+ purchases be two star or fewer? Why would you still patronize Amazon if this is your experience?

I get them for free, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690563

> While I don't think they do -- Amazon, like Temu, is a marketplace of sellers, and they let the bad sellers die -- you aren't really in a position to say if they do or not. Amazon's algorithm for surfacing and/or aggregating reviews is not something we can audit in any real manner.

Most of my reviews are for items with very little reviews due to the nature of Vine, so I can directly see the impact of my score on the average score.