Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews

Post by nerdponx » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 2:45 AM UTC

tokyodude wrote: post #124

nerdponx wrote: post #77

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But a web of trust based on, "I like this reviwer, so I trust who they trust" seems reasonable.

I am really curious if this would actually work. I also think if you trust a reviewer and it turns out they are a bad reviewer than your trust rating should lower. (you turned out to be a bad reviewer reviewer) That said I have no idea if this would. Seems those 87k people mentioned above would just trust each other to raise their trust ratings.

Post by ericd » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 2:47 AM UTC

eightysixfour wrote: post #120

phakding wrote: post #118

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I don't think I would agree to that model. I wouldn't like my money being held hostage for a review. If they give me a dollar discount, on the other hand, I would be much inclined to leave a review.

It is the same model, just semantics. Either way they are increasing the price of the product by some amount and decreasing it when you leave a review.

Post by thaumasiotes » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 2:49 AM UTC

bootlooped wrote: post #113

x0054 wrote: post #111

Amazon is going downhill quickly. I target shoot with a compound bow as a hobby, and as a result I usually buy a set of arrows a year. In 2015 when I would search for "target arrows" on Amazon the first page results would be for legit American companies who make exceptional arrows for about $30 per set of 6. Now, and for the last 2 years if I search for "target arrows" I get pages and pages of Chinese crap arrows (I…

It's not clear those low-price low-quality products aren't legitimately listed first because most people prefer them. Edit: ignore the above, I failed to read the part where they said the price was the same.

Post by CWuestefeld » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 2:51 AM UTC

dclowd9901 wrote: post #142

joelx wrote: post #112

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I suggest Amazon solves this by requiring ALL purchasers to leave reviews of ALL products they buy. Or by adding a $10 fee to every purchase that can only be refunded by leaving a review.

Nah. Better solution is removing reviews from people who get refunds. Double win by incentivizing manufacturers to refund a disgruntled customer.

Post by ericd » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 2:54 AM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #48

walrus01 wrote: post #40

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You would think, however, that the "1/2" works fine in the text field used for a standard North American address... At least with Amazon and 99% of ecommerce sites there's two separate freeform text entry fields for street address. It's not like these are fields that require a precise integer. This should enable the actual human making the delivery to see the same thing printed on the label, and visually match it to…

> It's not like these are fields that require a precise integer. If you are treating the street address as more than a string something is wrong. Its supposed to be a string by design unless you are trying to be efficient by storing ints as ints but then you shouldnt be evaluating them from user input and if you are... Treat it as a raw string.