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> it is getting increasingly annoying using a site where everything is 4-5 stars with hundreds or thousands of reviews and you need incredible intuition to tell
by CamelCaseName 8y ago
> it is getting increasingly annoying using a site where everything is 4-5 stars with hundreds or thousands of reviews and you need incredible intuition to tell the fake reviews from the real ones.
While it's definitely a problem, there are WAY more 1-3 star listings than you know, but you'll never see them because the sellers stop selling them or their sales slow down and are dropped from the rankings.
- tracker1 8y agoI think part of the problem, is that there really needs to be a "seller verification" process, similar to an EV cert for sellers, that's easier for users to filter. It used to be enough to filter "Fullfilled By Amazon" .. hell, now I mostly click the "Seller: Amazon" option, but it feels like Amazon has reduced their own inventory in favor of 3rd party sellers.
- CamelCaseName 8y agoThe reason why Amazon reduced their vendor program is because they were getting scammed. Here's an example: Vendor sells Amazon 500 shirts at $4/unit, retails at $10. Once in stock, vendor sells the shirts very quickly. They do this by either putting the shirt on sale for pennies, or by using hacked accounts to buy the shirts (or by paying people to buy the shirts). What happens when Amazon sees that the shirts they ordered sold out in 3 days, and are going to take 30 days to replenish? They buy more, and although the vendor may have initially been down the $4 * 500, when Amazon places that reorder for 5,000+ units, the vendor is up substantially and bails, leaving Amazon with a ton of inventory.