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Yeah the fake reviews are bad for business. I'm buying much less because I know knock off Chinese white label products are being marked up 5~7x the wholesale pr
by pwaai 9y ago
Yeah the fake reviews are bad for business. I'm buying much less because I know knock off Chinese white label products are being marked up 5~7x the wholesale price from Alibaba.
I don't like being used as an arbitrage opportunity. I think that if unaddressed it could harm Amazon in the long run.
Validating authentic and genuine reviews is still a very much under-developed solution, still relying on an equally weighted consensus when it's overwhelmingly skewed to positive bias (fake reviews up the average rating).
I now read the bad reviews very carefully. they are often always sandwiched or quickly buried by broken english reviews.
I can't remember how many times I bought a 4.8 star item and realized it was from Alibaba with just a different logo. I definitely won't be needing Amazon Prime anymore.......
but where else will I take out my shopping binge desires?
- wingworks 9y agoWhy not just shop directly with Alibaba/aliexpress then, skip the big markup :D
- froindt 9y agoBecause you need to buy wholesale quantities and it's still not the brand name product you want.
- dlubarov 9y agoAliExpress is consumer focused; you can buy single units there.
- bsder 9y agoI do. But it doesn't solve the whole "Is this good or crap?" problem. Generally on Alibaba, you have to know what a "reasonable" price is and expect that "acceptable" means you may have to order something 3 different times. I seem to have a miss rate of about 20-30%--so most of the time I get what I want, but very occasionally I get a bad roll of the dice and have to order 3 times.