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This has worked well for me: 1. Sort reviews by recent; average MUCH lower than overall? Avoid. 2. Use Lustre.ai to suggest alternatives (site or browser plug
by QuantumGood 4y ago
This has worked well for me:
1. Sort reviews by recent; average MUCH lower than overall? Avoid.
2. Use Lustre.ai to suggest alternatives (site or browser plugin).
3. Read 1- and 2-star reviews; many re: misleading features/broken functions?
Avoid.
4. Check most helpful negative review.
5. Search reviews and questions for what you've learned in steps 3 and 4.
6. Ignore short to medium reviews explaining nothing and using glowing superlatives.
- flanbiscuit 4y agoI've never heard of Lustre.ai, I'm going to try it out, thanks for the tip. Besides #2, I pretty much do the rest of these steps already and it has been helpful.
- QuantumGood 4y agoI thought about it, and realized what I do is a bit more involved: 1. Find lower-cost options that have a lot of reviews. 2. Sort reviews by recent; average MUCH lower than overall? Avoid. Ignore short to medium reviews explaining nothing and using glowing superlatives. 3. Use Lustre.ai to suggest alternatives (site or browser plugin), and use the steps below to know what issues MOST of these kind of products have. 4. Check much more expensive versions of the product for desirable features / problems solved, e.g. Bluetooth earbuds with a physical or app-based "re-pairing" function. 5. Read 1- and 2-star reviews; many re: misleading features/broken functions? Avoid, but note what kinds of problems are common. 6. Check most helpful negative review when available 7. Search reviews and questions for the issues you uncovered in steps 3 and 4. Sometimes MOST products have similar issues regardless of price—there may not be ANY product worth buying, e.g. home blood pressure monitors.