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Are you kidding? People I know have TERRIBLE judgement when it comes to products. Who builds trust based on that characteristic?
But a web of trust based on, "I like this reviwer, so I trust who they trust" seems reasonable.
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Another factor is reviews with pictures depending on what you are buying. In any case I cancelled Amazon prime. They wont be getting my money once my membership expires. I rather pay for a service thats worthwhile to me. I rather get my things at Walmart or BestBuy due to convenience and now BestBuy will price match Amazon.
For all the problems that Amazon has, there is a long history of Best Buy actively pushing consumer-harmful practises that I would still rate them a lower choice. The first one that comes to mind is forcing printer manufacturers to not bundle USB cables so they can separately sell them at a high markup
I check Fakespot, and click on some reviewer profiles. The idiots doing full-time positive product reviewing are so easy to spot by their hilarious review history that you start to assume that Amazon doesn’t do anything against them on purpose. They also mainly flock on the crap within a single month or so (but this is one of many Fakespot metrics). I tried buying a new bicycle light last week and literally every pro…
Amazon rolled out the carpet for counterfeit when they mixed their inventory with seller inventory. Do not buy common automotive parts from Amazon. Really good chance you will get a knockoff part.
It will have to be fixed though, it seems that buying things sight unseen only really works when you have a lot of evidence (reviews) that the product is good.
Seems like a good way for an upstart to differentiate themselves.
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So you can leave a review without even using the service or product on Yelp? Without a verified purchase, why would anyway take the review seriously?
How would you even implement a verified purchase? For a hotel maybe you could forward an itinerary (which can be faked) but there’s probably no receipt for a random taco stand that only accepts cash. Granted the latter does not care as much as the hotel but whatever they do would need to cover everybody.
Allow users to write reviews, and then send a message to the hotel owner saying "X has posted a review of your business. Do you accept that X was a guest on X date?"
The hotel owner is forced to verify the stay before he gets to see the review.
Of course he'll know all about the outliers who had a bad experience and complained at the hotel and might want to lie about the guest staying, but such guests are usually very motivated and willing to prove their stay with receipts, photos, etc.
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I'd bet a lot of the fake reviews would disappear if they just: 1. Limited users ability to post reviews to say, 3 per year and no more than 1 in any given month. 2. Limit users ability to post more than one review per vendor, per year. 3. Only allow reviews by verified purchasers.
I think they'd just put in 365000 fake accounts, and continue posting 1000 fake reviews a day
If bots worked, they wouldn't have had to resort to real humans on Facebook to get reviews.
Let's not forget that these fake reviews are being paid for. That's clearly better than non-paid-for fake reviews. That is, there's some friction for the malicious actors. Imagine how much less spam we would have if it cost 1 cent to send an email. Friction can do a lot of good. This is all to say that it looks like Amazon and others (e.g., Steam) are doing the right thing in requiring a verified purchase in order to…
Except the spam email problem was solved without opening the door to another place where uninformed consumers could get nickle-and-dimed? Aren't we all glad the pay-for-email push failed?
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Why aree you ordering brands off amazon rather than from the brand? You get what you pay for. Good luck on the fraud charge.
> Why aree you ordering brands off amazon WTF? Because fraud is illegal and amazon often has lower prices on goods.
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I'd say of unmoderated (or poorly moderated) review systems. E.g., we don't see this on Angie's List or Houzz. I've found that the only way to get useful information out of most Amazon reviews is to look at the 1- & 2-stars, trying to filter out the fake competitor hits, and see if there are any consistent issues that aren't DEU issues. Then look at the 3- & 4-stars and see what seems to be good. That said, I expect…
> Angie's List or Houzz. Ok sure, you can put it down to moderation, or you can put it down to size. What is the size of Angie's list to Amazon?