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> and the fact that you can no longer trust the reviews you get a company that has completely lost the trust of it's users. Aren't many (maybe most) of these f
by jolmg 8y ago
> and the fact that you can no longer trust the reviews you get a company that has completely lost the trust of it's users.
Aren't many (maybe most) of these fake reviews done through Amazon Mechanical Turk? It's like instead of taking the cost to moderate the reviews, they decided to monetize them. Why pay money, when you can earn it?
- tivert 8y ago> Aren't many (maybe most) of these fake reviews done through Amazon Mechanical Turk? It's like instead of taking the cost to moderate the reviews, they decided to monetize them. Why pay money, when you can earn it? I know a lot of them come though Facebook. There hundreds of groups (like this one https://www.facebook.com/groups/amznlove/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/amznlove/), where sellers are soliciting fake reviews in exchange for free product and PayPal refunds and commissions. Here's the Washington Post article that describes this practice: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-merchants-secretly-use-facebook-to-flood-amazon-with-fake-reviews/2018/04/23/5dad1e30-4392-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-merchant... Here's a page that came up after a quick Google search that appears to be a review solication howto: https://www.amzfinder.com/blog/top-100-facebook-groups-list-amazon-reviews/ https://www.amzfinder.com/blog/top-100-facebook-groups-list-...