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Very good point on the "got product free" reviews - seems bizarrely misguided.

• mjg59 10y ago
  In the absence of name recognition, it's pretty much the only way small vendors have to differentiate themselves from any of the other vendors selling devices in the same space. The problem is that many of these reviewers end up just giving five stars and then re-selling unopened packages on ebay or craigslist, and many of the vendors expect high score reviews and will pressure reviewers if they don't get them. Blocking all incentivised reviews is one way of dealing with this, but it comes at the cost of it being more difficult to know whether a cheap equivalent from an unknown vendor is worth the savings or not. Some sort of reviewer trust weighting might be more useful here.
  • tracker1 10y ago
    Even weighting reviews on how much the reviewer spends on Amazon per year relative to the product cost would go a long way.
  • _wmd 10y ago
    Mailing customers a "3 click questionnaire" some time after purchase might be enough, it seems to work just fine for e.g. delivery food marketplaces.