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I also think that the whole profitable business model could be built that is entirely based on presenting clear and transparent view on amazon sellers and produ
by gesman 8y ago
I also think that the whole profitable business model could be built that is entirely based on presenting clear and transparent view on amazon sellers and products.
Amazon is clearly capable yet unwilling to eliminate fraudulent sellers and fake reviews from it's platform and third party solution is long overdue.
- tareqak 8y agoI think the idea is great, but doesn't it have the same potential problem as making apps involving Twitter's API?
- marketgod 8y agoThis is probably better as you aren't relying on Amazon's API. Scrape every product, get all the sellers, then start flagging each seller as valid or not. Amazon won't really be able to shut you down. Even better is once the extension runs on the users computer, you will be able to scrape using your customers which makes it harder to block. This looks like a great idea.
- mike-cardwell 8y agoThis comment reminds me of the days when I had to run mail systems and people would complain about receiving spam. Doesn't matter if you block 100 spam emails from their mailbox, if even one gets through, the spam filtering is crap. Especially if the spam is "obviously spam" to their human eyes. Amazon might very well be filtering out a massive amount of fake reviews. In fact, they might be filtering out the vast vast majority of them. But because you can see still see a lot, they must be "unwilling" to do it.