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The thing is that this just covers a subsection of online purchases, you can't use it to value a hotel for example right? The concept though is 1000% valid, we
by andreluque 2y ago
The thing is that this just covers a subsection of online purchases, you can't use it to value a hotel for example right?
The concept though is 1000% valid, we need a review platform that somewhat guarantees, verifies and vets all reviews that it displays.
Maybe, instead of anybody publishing a review, it's this central entity that has a due diligence team that crafts a review. And instead of making money from the affiliate links to the products sites, they make money from people paying to read the verified reviews.
- xyzzy123 2y agoIMHO the problem with this is that in a business environment where you need growth, eventually you run out of revenue you can extract from subscribers. I'm skeptical that this kind of service can be sustainably provided by any profit seeking company, the incentive gradient towards enshittification is very steep. How do you build a business / culture that resists being "corrupted" (i.e. getting easy revenue and growth that's not in the customer's interest)? I believe this is a genuinely hard problem.
- solardev 2y agoThat's already how Consumer Reports works, but they don't have the capital and reach to really make much of a difference. Their reviews are also kind of gamble in terms of reliability. The negative reviews from a mass of real buyers will often find things Consumer Reports did not. It's a lot easier to post a negative review directly than to go through the reporting process of Consumer Reports.