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I agree with you however it's much more than that because verified reviews can also be fake. There have been incidents of sellers creating bot accounts and buyi
by amf12 8y ago
I agree with you however it's much more than that because verified reviews can also be fake. There have been incidents of sellers creating bot accounts and buying products and shipping them to random addresses so that they can give themselves a verified review. The random person gets a free product (usually something very cheap, not the actual product). There was an interesting podcast about this. I generally look at the number of reviews, their distributions and the reviews posted by people with 1*.
- bogomipz 8y agoYeah and I have to wonder if company's are reaching out to purchasers who leave negative reviews and offering them incentives to "update" their negative product reviews. I came across a review from a person who bought a Jackery Bolt phone charger who claimed the company did this after she wrote a negative review on Amazon of their product. >"There was an interesting podcast about this." Do you happen to remember what podcast this was?
- amf12 8y ago> Do you happen to remember what podcast this was? Found it. Here you go. It's a Planet Money podcast and is very interesting. They actually interview people in China who do this. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=606517326 https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
- bogomipz 8y agoThanks for the link! This is indeed very interesting. Cheers.