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Unfortunately, I don't think those would help, and they might hurt. Your first suggestion doesn't address paid reviews. Usually the scheme is "buy it, and we w
by spenczar5 5y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think those would help, and they might hurt.
Your first suggestion doesn't address paid reviews. Usually the scheme is "buy it, and we will reimburse you with a little extra on top after you leave a review."
Your second suggestion would probably bias towards fake reviewers. It's pretty rare for someone to get paid just for one review.
One of the hard things to realize is that paid reviews are written by real people. Most of them probably know they are doing something shady, but not all - some think this is a legitimate marketing interaction. Many of them also leave real reviews for stuff - including negative reviews. It's generally not actually bots writing reviews.
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- TheCraiggers 5y agoSure, but it would surely reduce the scale of these fake reviews. Right now, companies can buy reviews in batches of thousands; the only actual cost is in somebody/something creating that review and some overhead. If Amazon also required actual purchase of that item, now there's the extra cost of actually buying that item. Even more so when you're talking about things that are expensive. This would drastically lower the amount of spam that could be generated unless the company wants to throw some huge money at it. Returned items would still potentially be an issue, but I'm guessing Amazon already has things in place to kick off users that return too many items.
- marmot777 5y agoYeah, microeconomics, make it more costly and harder to Crete fake reviews. Amazon has the brain power and resources to mitigate this problem...
- marmot777 5y agoOh wow, so the paid reviewers actually “buy” the product. What a shit show. Amazon probably doesn’t consider this much of a priority to deal with as it doesn’t hurt them just their customers.