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I no longer buy Amazon products based on the rating. I buy based on the rating of the rating using Fakespot. Everything is 4.5ish stars, and the worse products

I no longer buy Amazon products based on the rating. I buy based on the rating of the rating using Fakespot. Everything is 4.5ish stars, and the worse products have more fake reviews to get there.

pasc1878 4y ago
I do use the Amazon ratings. I look at the one star ones. If their complaints look reasonable and consistent then I know it is crap. The only reviews to trust are from consumer reports and which? Who buy things retail and not free from the manufactures and they have been doing this for 60 years. Even then Read the reviews carefully and the user comments.
- chongli 4y ago
  People use bot farms to kneecap their competitors with fake 1-star reviews, so you can’t trust them either.
  - pasc1878 4y ago
    Yes but you can usually tell if a complaint is reasonable - and I see many less one star than 5 star reviews
tmikaeld 4y ago
Feels very dangerous to install extensions that have full access to the contents of every site visited..
- asdfman123 4y ago
  That’s a good point. I’m extraordinarily lazy about security. Maybe you could make one browser profile to look up products, and your usual one to buy them.