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It's not economical for people to buy them if they get deleted for fraud. Amazon is in a position to use confirmed purchasers of a product as a filter. They can
by dexterdog 10y ago
It's not economical for people to buy them if they get deleted for fraud. Amazon is in a position to use confirmed purchasers of a product as a filter. They can also score account based on how many legitimate reviews they have. Once they cross a threshold all of the reviews get nuked. If an account as 1000+ reviews and rarely purchases anything you just shadowban them.
- nerfhammer 10y agoI've seen tons of fake-sounding reviews tagged with "Verified Purchase" lately. I think this is only a small impediment, since the seller gets most of the money back from buying their own product. They just have to have fake reviewers actually buy the product and then reimburse them.
- EazyC 10y agoThis is the most correct and obvious/very low cost way to do it that you almost start to think Amazon is in on the conspiracy with these fake reviewers because they have something to gain that we are not seeing.
- dexterdog 10y agoThat's the thing I don't get. Amazon wants to have reliable reviews, right? If people have to go elsewhere for reliable reviews those better-run sites will start affiliate programs with other sellers. That's a real risk for Amazon. I don't really care where I buy dog food or computer accessories or whatever. I live and breath AWS so they've got me there, but buying goods from them or target.com or wherever else is ultimately all the same.