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As someone who's been a customer since it sold books, it's disappointing these past couple of years that I have to shop at other sites for trusted items. The w
by mancerayder 5y ago
As someone who's been a customer since it sold books, it's disappointing these past couple of years that I have to shop at other sites for trusted items. The whole point of reviews is to provide insight and lessen risk. Now it's a whole exercise in avoiding getting scammed. I had an experience recently where I wrote a review (which I rarely do) that was 2 or 3 stars for a product (jars) that had glass which cracked in the fridge. They flagged and removed my review.
The same thing happens on sites like Airbnb, where it's trivial to delete bad reviews.
With a system like this, you can skirt ethics by showing only positive reviews, and then you can't exactly be accused of fraud or fake reviews.
- B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago> since it sold books, I feel for you. I telneted to books.com, before there was a "million book river" amazon ... Sic transit gloria mundi, etc.
- ncphil 5y agoHad a low star review pulled the same way recently. In a pique, I went in and deleted all my reviews. If AMZN isn't interested in preserving honest, critical reviews I'm not going to lend my name to legitimating them. Best Buy, B&H, Sweetwater are reliable sources of quality products. EBay will even do in a pinch, although ordering from them always seems a bit like a game of roulette. The paid ad scam corps have almost totally destroyed my reliance on reviews, as the insanely overhyped copy coming out of the Middle Kingdom has wrecked my trust in online product descriptions. Good work guys, you killed the goose: much luck staying afloat as the majority of shoppers are getting wise to you.
- mmerlin 5y agoThis is the perfect response. Thanks for the excellent suggestion! They deleted my last one star review too for a fraudulent fake product that wasted my time and money. Scamazon no longer deserves the SEO juice of previously entered legitimate reviews. Logging in to delete my past reviews now...
- mancerayder 5y agoSeconded on Ebay. I feel more confident buying from the same seller - or just a seller with many many reviews - than the increasingly dubious Amazon experience.
- beeboop 5y agoive also had ebay remove my legitimate reviews of bad sellers. its trivial for sellers to get bad reviews removed
- doktorhladnjak 5y agoI've also had legitimate reviews rejected when I gave a low rating and described receiving a counterfeit product. There's a lot of review fraud going on, but Amazon seems to be making it worse.