Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews

Post by Fej » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

mason55 wrote: post #58

TeMPOraL wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I myself am convinced that brand recognition is on borrowed time - that is, recognition of old brands may still work as useful filter, but new quality brands will be near-impossible to establish. The reason for that: we're being DDoSed with brands on e-commerce sites. For an increasing amount of product categories, you're going to find 10+ "brands" on Amazon that are selling the same white-label garbage class product…

What you’re describing is exactly how brands work. The garbage brands will continue to cycle because there’s no reason to keep the brand name (in fact it’s better to change it so that people who got burned don’t know it’s the same). But the good brands are investing in the brand name and so they will stick around and you’ll start to recognize them. Look at a company like Anker. They operate in spaces filled with garb…

Post by PaulKeeble » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

mdoms wrote: post #164

Presumably you've all stopped using Amazon because of this issue, so they're motivated to fix it..?

Post by cbanek » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #212

cbanek wrote: post #149

Somewhat related due to comments / reviews being for a product, but sometimes on Amazon one page has a set of different options (with the little boxes). So you can pick like a color or model. But then they group all the reviews together despite what buttons you've picked. This is so frustrating! At least they've added a little thing that says which SKU the review is for. But I wish they would just separate out the re…

I agree it's frustrating, but there is a way to do what you want. After you've selected the color/model, go to the reviews section, and click to see all reviews, which brings you to a new page. There, you can filter to select reviews that are only for the single color/model. It's annoying, and it's even dumber that the filter dropdown only lets you toggle between all reviews and reviews for the single color/model (wh…

Post by lifeisstillgood » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

Post by r00fus » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

prepend wrote: post #198

SoSoRoCoCo wrote: post #128

Here's one solution: don't buy cheap garbage. Yes, someone makes a $23 drone. It is cheap plastic shit from China. Do you really need to buy it, and then throw it in landfill a week (or two days) later after it breaks? Did OP reeeeeally expect a $23 drone to be on the up-and-up and NOT end up as landfill? OP is a bit oblivious to his impact on the environment. This race to the bottom for the cheapest crap is what ins…

It’s a children’s toy meant to be played with for a few hours. So $23 makes since since this is a simple toy. The thinking that people shouldn’t pay low amounts leads to companies selling the same junk but for $100 instead. Cheap things should be cheap, I think.