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Don't forget the reviews! Buying the right one is often more important than buying one today.

• JadeNB 8y ago
  > Don't forget the reviews! Buying the right one is often more important than buying one today. Amazon itself seems to have forgotten this; reviews used to be very useful, but either they're not trying very hard to combat fake reviews or they're not up to the challenge, because they're almost useless now for big-ticket items.
  • ascar 8y ago
    In my experience the reviews are most useless for small items, where fake reviews can easily manipulate the reviews or are even the only reviews available.
    • JadeNB 8y ago
      > In my experience the reviews are most useless for small items, where fake reviews can easily manipulate the reviews or are even the only reviews available. Yeah, 'big ticket' wasn't the right word; probably I meant 'commodity'. I meant to exclude things like reviews of obscure books, which sellers apparently usually don't bother trying to game, since they seem to be reasonably reliable (at least, last time I checked, which was a while ago …).