Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For
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#2Hmm, I had (apparently wrongly) assumed this had become common knowledge.
Now I am beginning to wonder what percentage of people are aware of this issue.
On a different note, I saw elsewhere (Axiom perhaps? I cannot remember) that amazon claimed it was only roughly 1% of all reviews that were paid for. Which based on my past experience in E-Commerce, seems significantly lower than would be estimates.
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#3It's common knowledge among most techies that the majority of Amazon reviews are fake and that counterfeit items are a big issue, but most of the general population is completely unaware. I was searching for an inexpensive pair of polarized sunglasses last week and the "Amazon Recommended" ones had an F on FakeSpot with 70%+ fake reviews.
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#4It's common knowledge among most techies that the majority of Amazon reviews are fake and that counterfeit items are a big issue, but most of the general population is completely unaware. I was searching for an inexpensive pair of polarized sunglasses last week and the "Amazon Recommended" ones had an F on FakeSpot with 70%+ fake reviews.
How legitimate is FakeSpot though? I find nearly everything has an F with a high amount of fake reviews when I use it.
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#5It's common knowledge among most techies that the majority of Amazon reviews are fake and that counterfeit items are a big issue, but most of the general population is completely unaware. I was searching for an inexpensive pair of polarized sunglasses last week and the "Amazon Recommended" ones had an F on FakeSpot with 70%+ fake reviews.
How legitimate is FakeSpot though? I find nearly everything has an F with a high amount of fake reviews when I use it.
Is that a sign of illegitimate fake-spotting, or a sign of just how widespread fake reviews are? Personally I'm quite inclined to believe an extremely high fail rate.
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#6It's common knowledge among most techies that the majority of Amazon reviews are fake and that counterfeit items are a big issue, but most of the general population is completely unaware. I was searching for an inexpensive pair of polarized sunglasses last week and the "Amazon Recommended" ones had an F on FakeSpot with 70%+ fake reviews.
How legitimate is FakeSpot though? I find nearly everything has an F with a high amount of fake reviews when I use it.
I checked your comment and it was an F with 83% fake on FakeSpot.
Edit: I was paid for writing this review.
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#7I'm surprised the article doesn't mention the Amazon Vine program which sends products to well-standing reviewers in order to seed reviews.
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#8"Some"
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#9I've been using https://www.fakespot.com to flag bullshit reviews for a few months now. After many happy purchases informed by its review analysis, I believe it works.
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#10Hmm, I had (apparently wrongly) assumed this had become common knowledge. Now I am beginning to wonder what percentage of people are aware of this issue. On a different note, I saw elsewhere (Axiom perhaps? I cannot remember) that amazon claimed it was only roughly 1% of all reviews that were paid for. Which based on my past experience in E-Commerce, seems significantly lower than would be estimates.
> Hmm, I had (apparently wrongly) assumed this had become common knowledge.
me too. maybe NPR is behind the times. also: Amazon is a sponsor of NPR (just sayin')
> amazon claimed it was only roughly 1% of all reviews that were paid for.
yes. that's right. the 1% figure also appears in the NPR article:
"Our approximation is that less than 1 percent of reviews are inauthentic," says Sharon Chiarella, vice president of community shopping at Amazon.