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Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by whilenot-dev »

dankwizard wrote: post #63
Retr0id wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can understand going for the "free upgrade" the first time around, but why continue racking up more vacuum cleaners after that? Do you plan to sell them later?

You sound like my wife. I don't know. I grew up kind of poor and my mindset still has a "If I can get an item typically worth $100-200 for free, TAKE IT". The plan was to flip them on FB market place but I've just hoarded them.

this example suggests that you'd be happy to get paid in an alternative currency in exchange for Amazon reviews, and that currency is vacuums?! tbh I think your wife is right and you know it.

Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by ozgrakkurt »

shawnz wrote: post #82
Mtinie wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s the rational option if someone is giving you something for less than it costs you and the moral implications of the action is minimal (at best).

Sure, but consider the costs of consuming your space with junk. Now you have less room for things you care about, there's a maintenance burden, and there's a mental burden as well

Not having things and regretting passing up on something is much more real for people that had problem with money before.

Having too many things is just abstract unless you had that problem maybe

Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by hdevarajan »

lt_kernelpanic wrote: post #81
Retr0id wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can understand going for the "free upgrade" the first time around, but why continue racking up more vacuum cleaners after that? Do you plan to sell them later?

Obviously, the plan is to eventually collect enough to construct a Dyson sphere.

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Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by ozgrakkurt »

Reading reviews for the thing you are buying on the platform that you are buying it sounds a bit sketchy anyway.

Searching the product and reading about it from different review sites seems more reliable. Also can combine this with marketplace reviews considering reliability.

If there is no review than have to trust the brand and if there is no brand then it is a gamble

Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by logifail »

ozgrakkurt wrote: post #94

Reading reviews for the thing you are buying on the platform that you are buying it sounds a bit sketchy anyway. Searching the product and reading about it from different review sites seems more reliable. Also can combine this with marketplace reviews considering reliability. If there is no review than have to trust the brand and if there is no brand then it is a gamble

> Reading reviews for the thing you are buying on the platform that you are buying it sounds a bit sketchy anyway

Although at least the platform can know if the reviewer actually purchased the product(?)

> Searching the product and reading about it from different review sites seems more reliable

Unless they use affiliate links, which is a great big red flag that the incentives are already stacked against you.

Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by Scoundreller »

aussieguy1234 wrote: post #69
colonial wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon is awful when it comes to striking down accusatory customer reviews. Last year I (like a fool) purchased some chunky thru-hole MOSFETs on Amazon. Lo and behold, despite the datasheets promising a few amps with 3.3V at the gate, I only got a few milliamps. Obviously counterfeit - but no matter how hard I tried or how much indirection I employed, Amazon always took down my review warning others of this verifiabl…

Amazon are becoming like AliExpress and Temu. They can always do it cheaper, but the quality is touch and go. Now with fake reviews it alot harder to tell what's good quality and what's not.

At least for what I buy from aliexpress, it hasn’t been infiltrated by fake reviews.

Lots of incomprehensible or useless human ones though.

(And bad machine translations by aliexpress…)

Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by shawnz »

ozgrakkurt wrote: post #92
shawnz wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but consider the costs of consuming your space with junk. Now you have less room for things you care about, there's a maintenance burden, and there's a mental burden as well

Not having things and regretting passing up on something is much more real for people that had problem with money before. Having too many things is just abstract unless you had that problem maybe

Is 12 vacuums abstract?

Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by grogenaut »

colonial wrote: post #62
dawnerd wrote: post #48

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Some company paid be 100 bucks to change my review to be positive so they sent the money via PayPal no problem then I changed the review to say they paid me to write a glowing review and of course Amazon ended up removing the review for being harmful to their customers

Amazon is awful when it comes to striking down accusatory customer reviews. Last year I (like a fool) purchased some chunky thru-hole MOSFETs on Amazon. Lo and behold, despite the datasheets promising a few amps with 3.3V at the gate, I only got a few milliamps. Obviously counterfeit - but no matter how hard I tried or how much indirection I employed, Amazon always took down my review warning others of this verifiabl…

you're supposed to report this to amazon customer service not via a review. just send em a photo of the bribe and they'll verify it. yes it's not as satisfying but they can't validate your review unless you also posted a photo.

Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by dankwizard »

4b11b4 wrote: post #71
dankwizard wrote: post #46

It was falling behind. The dodgy stores were getting more creative and Fakespot needed to play catch up. You've got stores that would include a $5-$20 coupon/gift card in the item in exchange for a positive review. Sure, this didn't 1:1 translate but if a user did it would look like a legitimate review. You've got a plethora of LLMs out there just itching to GENERATE. Then an expensive option I was suprised happened…

Wait what. You have 12 vacs? anyway, I can imagine some small territory in time where fakespot can accurately deal with the flood. But then..

Yes.

I had to leave a video review component (No face). I wonder if any shoppers ever wondered why the same monotone man was constantly buying and reviewing vaccuum cleaners if he's always leaving positive reviews?!

Re: Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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Post by solardev »

chrischen wrote: post #68
dankwizard wrote: post #46

It was falling behind. The dodgy stores were getting more creative and Fakespot needed to play catch up. You've got stores that would include a $5-$20 coupon/gift card in the item in exchange for a positive review. Sure, this didn't 1:1 translate but if a user did it would look like a legitimate review. You've got a plethora of LLMs out there just itching to GENERATE. Then an expensive option I was suprised happened…

When you have extremely generous return policies then reviews matter less. They are still relevant if your'e trying to optimize for buy once for life, but in that case you should just be going for established brands instead, where their reputation is their review.

Brands don't mean much when they're constantly bought up by other companies and then used to whitewash poorer quality products.
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