Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work

Post by acveilleux » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 8:29 PM UTC

poizan42 wrote: post #145

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #74

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Amazon users do rely heavily on reviews, generally. I think with the Google engineers' reviews promoted to the top by the number of people who have marked them as helpful, market forces will finish the job. Few people will buy them, and those that do will have done so against solid advice. Amazon, of course, can delist things or not at their pleasure.

Or the seller creates a new account and keep selling the cables until another bad review. And then does the same again and so on.

Post by jessaustin » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 8:30 PM UTC

larrybud wrote: post #78

mikestew wrote: post #62

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Personally, I filter out one and five star reviews. To me, five stars means when you use the product, Jesus appears before you. One star means I ordered a cable and received a dead crab instead (pretty sure there's an XKCD that covers the last one). But others don't agree with my rating system, so "ordered blue, but it was robin egg blue. Werst company evar!!!11" means one star. Five stars means "I work for the compa…

Really? If a product meets your needs, is a fair price, and seems to be working fine after 30 days, you would not give it 5 stars? It would need to perform miracles to get 5 stars?

Post by vidarh » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 8:32 PM UTC

jarek wrote: post #61

ck2 wrote: post #36

Amazon reviews become useless as Amazon allows third-party vendors from China and HK to flood the original listing with clones. So people buy based on the review and then they find out the vendor shipped a clone, so then they give a bad review but it's not for the original listing. Amazon made a huge mess with that, they should never allow third parties to sell on the original listing.

Another fun thing I saw on Amazon a few months back was items for sale with reviews for another product. Shopping for a small FM transmitter, I found a listing where every review more than a few months old was for a roof-mounted car antenna. I suppose there is a Ship of Theseus problem when trying to detect tricks like that automatically - surely sellers should be able to reword description, update product image, and…

Post by antihero » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 8:35 PM UTC

unics wrote: post #130

DiabloD3 wrote: post #66

I see no reason why to buy anything but Anker. I once tried to purposely destroy an Anker MicroUSB cable (bought a 5 pack that had three 3ft, one 6ft, one 1ft, didn't need the 1ft), by grabbing the head of it with clamping pliers and yanking the fuck out of it with the cable wrapped around my hand, and bending it to near 180 degrees repeatedly for about 5 minutes. I could not kill it without straight up taking wire c…

This is good to know. I just bought my first Anker charger a month ago to be able to start my car if needed and to charge my phone. It came with really nice cables which really pleased me and I've been able to test the charger on a strangers truck that happened to be parked next to me in a parking lot. It did great btw. I just happened to stumble onto it on Amazon and thought I'd give them a shot.

Post by hlmencken » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 8:36 PM UTC