Luckily products from well established companies are still free from fake reviews (on Amazon) by and large. As long as you avoid the hordes of 5 star products w

Luckily products from well established companies are still free from fake reviews (on Amazon) by and large. As long as you avoid the hordes of 5 star products with very generic brand names that you have never heard of, you can still trust reviews to have some degree of accuracy. Not to say that the suspiciously cheap product with near perfect reviews that always shows up at the top is always the wrong choice. I bought a knock off dremel for $20, and later ended up using it to cut quite a bit of 1.8in mild steel and it performed great. Only a little bit of smoking from the internals. On the other hand, I bought a cheap microphone from the same style of seller, and it was an unmitigated piece of garbage.