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I very rarely write negative reviews, but every time I have was for something of this magnitude and not once has any ever been left up on any platform.

AlwaysRock 5y ago
I tend to write something like, "Didnt work. 1 star" At least that stays up most of the time.
tempnow987 5y ago
Same. What I don't get is that on Amazon I've purchased 10's to 100's of thousands in product (was an early user, business account admin etc). Of all the reviews that SHOULD have credibility, someone who doesn't review a lot and buys a TON of product - you think would be slightly credible? Instead, for those (few) times I've posted a clearly negative review - gone for whatever reason. If you buy enough from Amazon, especially in last 5 years or so, you got some total absolute trash in there. "Genuine" Apple products absolutely totally 100% fake trash. How amazon's supply chain thinks these are legit is mind boggling. I've had such bad luck with "genuine" and "oem" battery replacements I've given up - most of these things are just crap scam stuff. I'm actually curious how this even happens sometimes, some of the used crap was BADLY used, think of a bunch of electric pencil sharpeners for an office, all "new" that are filled with old pencil shavings, scratches etc etc. Product reviews that when you go back to understand how the piece of trash product got 5 stars you realize the reviews DO NOT EVEN RELATE TO THE PRODUCT you purchased. I mean, how does this even happen? So you get out the review - hey, this things was garbage, and many of the 5 star reviews were for a knife set it looks like instead of a powerbank. Review rejected :)
- throwawayboise 5y ago
  I canceled Prime and stopped buying stuff on Amazon over 3 years ago for these sort of reasons. You cannot trust the product descriptions, you cannot trust the reviews, and you cannot trust that what you actually get is the same thing you thought you were buying.
- webmaven 5y ago
  > Product reviews that when you go back to understand how the piece of trash product got 5 stars you realize the reviews DO NOT EVEN RELATE TO THE PRODUCT you purchased. I mean, how does this even happen? Several ways: 1. Repurposing product listings for something unrelated and keeping the old sales data and reviews 2. Merging product listings to aggregate unrelated sales data and reviews 3. Fake reviews that were unrelated to the product all along
  - tempnow987 5y ago
    > Several ways: > 1. Repurposing product listings for something unrelated and keeping the old sales data and reviews Sure - but this seems trivially solvable by Amazon - you can't tell that a product listing for a knife set is not a tech product?? > 2. Merging product listings to aggregate unrelated sales data and reviews Again - def happens I think. But can't these go through some type of review? The ones I've seen are WAY off when you look deeper. > 3. Fake reviews that were unrelated to the product all along This is harder, I'd have 2 amazon staff review higher volume products.
    - webmaven 5y ago
      "Why doesn't Amazon stop this from happening?" is a different question from "How does this happen?". Any system Amazon puts in place will have a lot of false positives that require human review. And that is entirely aside from the fact that underhanded sellers will try to flood such a system with automated disputes until Amazon relents. > The ones I've seen are WAY off when you look deeper. You're assuming these disparate merges happen in a single step.
jacquesm 5y ago
Reviews and the platforms they relate to should be separated from each other. And Yelp like strategies should be reason for major shunning.

AlwaysRock 5y ago

I tend to write something like, "Didnt work. 1 star" At least that stays up most of the time.

tempnow987 5y ago

Same. What I don't get is that on Amazon I've purchased 10's to 100's of thousands in product (was an early user, business account admin etc). Of all the reviews that SHOULD have credibility, someone who doesn't review a lot and buys a TON of product - you think would be slightly credible? Instead, for those (few) times I've posted a clearly negative review - gone for whatever reason. If you buy enough from Amazon, especially in last 5 years or so, you got some total absolute trash in there. "Genuine" Apple products absolutely totally 100% fake trash. How amazon's supply chain thinks these are legit is mind boggling. I've had such bad luck with "genuine" and "oem" battery replacements I've given up - most of these things are just crap scam stuff. I'm actually curious how this even happens sometimes, some of the used crap was BADLY used, think of a bunch of electric pencil sharpeners for an office, all "new" that are filled with old pencil shavings, scratches etc etc. Product reviews that when you go back to understand how the piece of trash product got 5 stars you realize the reviews DO NOT EVEN RELATE TO THE PRODUCT you purchased. I mean, how does this even happen? So you get out the review - hey, this things was garbage, and many of the 5 star reviews were for a knife set it looks like instead of a powerbank. Review rejected :)

throwawayboise 5y ago
I canceled Prime and stopped buying stuff on Amazon over 3 years ago for these sort of reasons. You cannot trust the product descriptions, you cannot trust the reviews, and you cannot trust that what you actually get is the same thing you thought you were buying.
webmaven 5y ago
> Product reviews that when you go back to understand how the piece of trash product got 5 stars you realize the reviews DO NOT EVEN RELATE TO THE PRODUCT you purchased. I mean, how does this even happen? Several ways: 1. Repurposing product listings for something unrelated and keeping the old sales data and reviews 2. Merging product listings to aggregate unrelated sales data and reviews 3. Fake reviews that were unrelated to the product all along
- tempnow987 5y ago
  > Several ways: > 1. Repurposing product listings for something unrelated and keeping the old sales data and reviews Sure - but this seems trivially solvable by Amazon - you can't tell that a product listing for a knife set is not a tech product?? > 2. Merging product listings to aggregate unrelated sales data and reviews Again - def happens I think. But can't these go through some type of review? The ones I've seen are WAY off when you look deeper. > 3. Fake reviews that were unrelated to the product all along This is harder, I'd have 2 amazon staff review higher volume products.
  - webmaven 5y ago
    "Why doesn't Amazon stop this from happening?" is a different question from "How does this happen?". Any system Amazon puts in place will have a lot of false positives that require human review. And that is entirely aside from the fact that underhanded sellers will try to flood such a system with automated disputes until Amazon relents. > The ones I've seen are WAY off when you look deeper. You're assuming these disparate merges happen in a single step.

jacquesm 5y ago

Reviews and the platforms they relate to should be separated from each other. And Yelp like strategies should be reason for major shunning.