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I gave up on Amazon reviews years ago when I noticed that almost everything had 10 5-star reviews the first couple of days. Mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunt,

• ricree 17y ago
  I do like that they make it easy to get to the best negative reviews. In general, I find that they tend to be the most useful by far.
  • thetrumanshow 17y ago
    Even a negative review can be spun to make the product seem more positive. Ex: "Two stars. Works great and beats the other XYZ brand by a mile, but it doesn't have [random obscure feature that no one else would ever care about], so I'll stick with the XYZ brand." (see what I did there?) The other problem is that negative reviews are an open mic for people to complain about whatever, and they tend toward the extreme. Ex "One star: Mine broke, and only a few months out of warranty. Piece of junk." How many people (what %) ever leave comments when the product is just mediocre?