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I think reviews tied to discounted products should be be given a weight reduced by the amount proportional to the discount received. So a product with a 75% dis
by c3534l 10y ago
I think reviews tied to discounted products should be be given a weight reduced by the amount proportional to the discount received. So a product with a 75% discount should be given a 25% weight in the weighted-average review score.
- teej 10y agoSellers will just game this by paying someone to buy the product at full price for a good review.
- bambax 10y agoMaybe, but how? I mean, how does it scale? You can call a few friends for your first product (maybe) but at some point you run out of friends and you need to recruit people you don't know.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoIt's easy to circumvent this by offering 4x as many discounted items at the discounted price to get the reviews (I bet it still makes sense for the manufacturers to take even this loss up front if they can top the search rankings).
- c3534l 10y agoThat was meant to be a bit of a joke, btw. Ratings lose their value to customers when they're too opaque to fully understand.