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Unless you're buying a specific product Amazon has become a worse mess than eBay. Shill reviews and shoddy, awful products. I'll never understand why they mad
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Unless you're buying a specific product Amazon has become a worse mess than eBay. Shill reviews and shoddy, awful products. I'll never understand why they made the marketplace choices they did - they've ruined their brand in my eyes.
If you're searching for batteries or some such, the search is terrible. Far too many items that don't meet search criteria included, far too much reliance on their worthless star rating.
They're ok to buy a book, CD or a known brand item. For anything else it's too much of a lottery now, I spend my money elsewhere.
- bogomipz 10y agoBut you can tell by the reviewers if they are verified no? I have a problem with the independent kindle books, I like to support independent publishing but so many of them are unreadable due to poor formatting and spelling errors. I realize these are low margin but its still the Amazon/Kindle brand.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoEven that is minimally helpful. You can't exclude non-verified reviews in search or overall rating. You can't believe that they're in any way helpfully independent - it would be the easiest thing in the world to seed your shoddy product's life on Amazon with verified reviews from employees and friends. I've seen reviews on some products that seems to indicate this is happening at least sometimes. Having lost trust it is going to be near impossible to regain it. You mention the Amazon/Kindle brand - they don;t, from the way they are managing it, appear to care very much about it. I used to believe the bad ebook formatting was an early days teething issue, but years later it is still relatively common.