Yes. A great many product categories are so filled with scammers that if you reject the ones with bad scores on Fakespot or ReviewMeta you'll end up with nothin

Yes. A great many product categories are so filled with scammers that if you reject the ones with bad scores on Fakespot or ReviewMeta you'll end up with nothing. Which could be an argument for shopping somewhere other than Amazon, except that you might only find one or two stores that have The Thing and then you'll have no information on how good it really is. It might even be the very same thing you looked at on Amazon, or you might fail to find it elsewhere at all. I've ended up buying some real clunkers IRL too, and found some unexpectedly good stuff on Amazon. "Caveat emptor" was a saying long before the internet, after all. No matter where you buy, you're taking a bit of a risk and should try to manage it however you can. I still use ReviewMeta, and often follow where it leads if there's a distinction, but I also think we have a lot of work to do applying what we already know about gaming-resistant filtering in domains like this.