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In my opinion, the biggest risk to Bezos' wealth is the same thing that drew me into the service to begin with. In the mid-to-late 2000s it was easy to go to Am

In my opinion, the biggest risk to Bezos' wealth is the same thing that drew me into the service to begin with. In the mid-to-late 2000s it was easy to go to Amazon, search for "thing I want" and blindly purchase the 4.5-5 star item with enough reviews to appear legitimate. I could do this and expect to get a great product _every_ time. Now, I find myself spending an hour screwing with the filters and reading reviews to figure out which listings are noise with fake reviews and which ones are for real. And even then with many products fulfilled by Amazon, you end up having to read reviews to figure out which seller to buy from to get the real item and not a counterfeit. This combination of fake reviews and counterfeiting is what I think threatens Amazon's position. I don't make many large purchases on Amazon any more as a result of the risk, and those that I do make are fulfilled by the manufacturer so I know what I'm getting is legitimate.

cmjqol 8y ago
>reading reviews to figure out which listings are noise with fake reviews and which ones are for real I thought I was the only guy looking for patterns in Reviews and grammatical style to eliminate fake reviews. Amazon has an insane amount of traffic making it the ideal choice for Chinese electronics makers who have lived or studied to america. They understand western marketing and psychology and it's fairly easy for them to manufacture clones of something that works really well in those countries at lower cost. The products are often flooded with 5 stars rating , mostly incoherent.
kart23 8y ago
Honestly, I fucking hate Amazon. I love going to a store, feeling the product and then deciding if I like the look and feel of a product. And Amazon doesn't even carry good stuff anymore. It's all just junk nowadays, and the useful stuff is often overpriced or out of stock. I want somewhere where I can find unique, good quality brands, and brick&mortar will always be best for that.
- 0x00000000 8y ago
  And even if you check something out in person at a retail store and go buy it on Amazon, there is a chance you receive a counterfeit. A very, very high chance for some items.
- yayadarsh 8y ago
  Honest question: what stores have this quality? I find that other than local or high-end/"boutique" stores (with much higher prices), I do not have the same experience.
Nition 8y ago
And after all these years there still isn't a good weighted (by number of ratings) SORT option for those star ratings.

cmjqol 8y ago

>reading reviews to figure out which listings are noise with fake reviews and which ones are for real I thought I was the only guy looking for patterns in Reviews and grammatical style to eliminate fake reviews. Amazon has an insane amount of traffic making it the ideal choice for Chinese electronics makers who have lived or studied to america. They understand western marketing and psychology and it's fairly easy for them to manufacture clones of something that works really well in those countries at lower cost. The products are often flooded with 5 stars rating , mostly incoherent.

kart23 8y ago

Honestly, I fucking hate Amazon. I love going to a store, feeling the product and then deciding if I like the look and feel of a product. And Amazon doesn't even carry good stuff anymore. It's all just junk nowadays, and the useful stuff is often overpriced or out of stock. I want somewhere where I can find unique, good quality brands, and brick&mortar will always be best for that.

0x00000000 8y ago
And even if you check something out in person at a retail store and go buy it on Amazon, there is a chance you receive a counterfeit. A very, very high chance for some items.
yayadarsh 8y ago
Honest question: what stores have this quality? I find that other than local or high-end/"boutique" stores (with much higher prices), I do not have the same experience.

Nition 8y ago

And after all these years there still isn't a good weighted (by number of ratings) SORT option for those star ratings.