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> A product that has been listed for 1 or 2 years No way to filter on this. Also, sellers "edit" (read: completely change) their items all the time. > highly
by yunwal 3y ago
> A product that has been listed for 1 or 2 years
No way to filter on this. Also, sellers "edit" (read: completely change) their items all the time.
> highly ranked in sales
Faked all the time
> a ton of reviews all over the spectrum
Faked all the time. Yes, people pay for a few negative/middling reviews sprinkled in for exactly this purpose. Generally, reviews follow a few common statistical distributions, and sellers pay to match those distributions.
There is literally no purpose in looking at any aggregation of amazon reviews. You can likely read an individual review and tell if it's real, but that's about it.
- crazygringo 3y agoYour argument makes as much sense as saying there is "literally no purpose" in reading books because authors can lie. You're missing the big picture which is that it all works pretty fine if you have a decent BS detector. > No way to filter on this. Who cares? Most listings showing in search results have been around for a while, and you check the date on each listing > Also, sellers "edit" (read: completely change) their items all the time No they don't. It happens occasionally, and it's quite clear that pre-existing top reviews are talking about a totally different item > Faked all the time You can't fake sales rankings for any substantial length of time, it would destroy all of your profit on the item and then some The truth is that while it can be economical for sellers to pay for some reviews/purchases at first to get a product listing off the ground, it can't be sustained. And listings can be switched to other products, but that's generally extremely obvious because the reviews and photos are for something entirely different. In the end, it's just not a problem if you pay attention at all.