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Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews
rsk writes "The first time I came across fake reviews on Amazon, it was hilarious. Using Amazon's Window Shop app, I came across a great category, 'Peculiar Products,' and was more than happy to look through it. Almost every one of the products I found on the list (Uranium Ore, 1 Gallon of Milk, Parent Child Test, Fresh Whole Rabbit) were fake, with thousands of reviews on them. As a shopper, I wasn't aware of how easy it was to apparently fake product reviews and it bothers me. When I'm shopping, the first (and a lot of times only) place I visit is Amazon to read the reviews if I'm in the market for something. I don't expect the reviews to be the word of God, but I do assume a certain level of legitimacy for most of them. While this won't affect my use of Amazon (especially not at this time of the year) I would like to bubble this up to Amazon's attention so some time is spent on improving the quality of the reviews."
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*Still* negative function...
Even more shocking is how easy it is to fake penthouse letters.
It's a joke. It's funny. It's not people gaming a system, it's people being funny. It's not some evil corporation pimping it's uranium, it's people who think half life jokes and Back to the Future references are the hip new thing.
One of my friends posted the original joke review to the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt a long time ago and for about a week, we got our kicks writing joke reviews and people approved of them because, well, they were funny. I'm appalled that you think this is gaming the system when it's just regular people having a good time.
As a shopper, I wasn't aware of how easy it was to apparently fake product reviews and it bothers me.
How on earth could that bother you? You didn't notice it until you stumbled into a weird category on some beta app. Do you have any sense of humor?
For what it's worth, Amazon is starting to allow reviewers who ordered the item from Amazon to mark on their review that Amazon confirms them as an owner. So you could probably in the future sort those reviews by those that wrote jokes and those that actually ordered the uranium (my god, how is this not on idle).
It really bothers you? How? Please tell me how I've ruined your shopping experience.
My work here is dung.
Fake post.
What one fool can do, another can. (Ancient Simian Proverb)
This is why Amazon likes to show you the top-rated positive comment and the top-rated negative comment. It's why they have reviewer ratings and the "Vine" program. It's why they have the whole meta-rating system in the first place. Don't ever take the star score at face value. Put more weight behind confirmed real names. Read review comments. It's not that hard to figure out.
"but I do assume a certain level of legitimacy for most of them. "
Why? the seldom have context, there often posted immediately after the item is received, and there are know astroturfs.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
If there is money or prestige involved, generally there are lies involved.
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Yes, but how will it AFFECT your use of Amazon?
It's funny.
Laugh.
If such an innocent thing bothers you, I dread to think what else you disapprove of.
These reviews are just light-hearted humour, and to be honest, they ARE hilarious (always have been, always will be) and often just the perfect thing to make you smile after a boring three-hour meeting.
You want to "bubble this up to Amazon"? Seriously, don't you have anything better to do?
Here's a bizarro product, and the 1000's of customer reviews (with pictures) that were submitted:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IZGIA8/ref=s9_simh_co_p263_d4_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=0964R987N5R9BZSJ4NP6&pf_rd_t=3201&pf_rd_p=1263271162&pf_rd_i=typ01
"but I do assume a certain level of legitimacy for most of them."
Remember the internet as it was back in around 1985-88? Back then you could largely trust reviews on usenet and such.
But then the net got flooded with the marketeers and the ad men. Now? You can trust very little of it.
Thanks, marketeers and ad men, for ruining a great thing for everybody else out of your own greed.
Here is a big example: the release of Spore. That game had thousands of bad reviews because of the DRM. People who never played/bought the game.
/. article, but maybe that is just me
Actually the review issue will be super simple to fix: if somebody buys a product from Amazon, if they also write a review on the product, there will be a special piece of text that says that the user who left the review bought the product from Amazon. To get rid of most of the bad/fake reviews, all Amazon needs to do is require that all reviews be from people who actually bought the product. This would also eliminate reviews on fake products, since unless the person paid for and bought the paid product, no review for them.
As for fake products, you would think there is some way to flag fake products to alert Amazon about it.
So, Amazon could easily fix these issues with items that are already in place (unless flagging products is not in place, but that sounds like something very odd that should be place if it is not), but it appears they choose not to. Maybe contacting Amazon directly and informing them about this would help out much better than a
The world is how you make it
And how is this different from the myriad vaporware announcements over the past three decades? At least there's some humor in these.
What the article really seems to miss is that there are meta-moderating for the reviews so you see things like "154 of 156 people found the following review helpful"
And when you see a spam bot or some fan boy getting all hot and bothered over some new product that's being preordered, that review gets buried as people vote it down and add comments like "WTF?" So if you're worried about this being an indication that companies or people are gaming the sale of products through reviews, I usually vote that crap down if I see it. And, honestly, these reviews have helped me. Just last week, I was going to order a set of Barska binoculars but half the reviews reported a mirror alignment defect so I didn't care what kind of sale they had on them.
I've rarely if ever found a review that was misleading and rated up.
You have to sign in with a legitimate account to do any of the above so it's not like there are spam bots out there gaming the reviews and the moderation of the reviews. If anyone else has seen this on Amazon, please speak up and link to examples, I'd be interested.
My work here is dung.
Just look at the Windows 7 "upgrade" from starter to home premium. It costs around $80 and is targeted at netbook users. Most of the victims where I live who buy netbooks get Starter Edition and I find it very hard to
believe that they would pay $80 to "fix" a deliberately broken product, whilst at the same time giving it a 5-star rating. I just refuse to believe that people can be that dumb...
Coincidently, this is another reason I want to get off the Titanic that is the Windows platform. I moved to Linux, but if it didn't exist, I would have likely gone Mac. Hopefully the trend of console games and mass-adoption of smart phones will finally dethrown the devil.
The 1 Gallon of Milk product and it's reviews are legendary.
Immediately following the script kiddies calling off their DDoS on Amazon, /. posts a negative article regarding Amazon.
Funny timing. Like an infant screaming and kicking trying to show the world that it matters.
most of those are posted by marketing firms and meant for idiots who don't know any better. it's like when my wife is bugging me about something she says that cnet gave it a good review. i tell her that no one reads cnet anymore
This is an issue that you can see Amazon and users taking seriously. If you notice Amazon allows you to meta moderate reviews, as well as comment on reviews. I have spotted a lot of fake reviews by reading comments on reviews, and I make it a point to comment on fake reviews as well providing my rationale for why I think it is a fake review. Just like on slashdot, community moderation is key here.
Amazon also provides an additional level of verification with the "Amazon verified purchase" where by Amazon lets you know that this reviewer at the very least did purchase this product from Amazon.
In the end reviews are like asking for advice. Often you get bad advice, often you get advice from people with hidden motives, and often you get good advice. Amazon's review system is just a representation of real life. Go anywhere on the web, or go call up some real estate agents/mortgage brokers and ask them "When is a good time to buy a house?" and the answer will almost invariably be "If you can afford it, _now_ is a good time to buy a house". They have a hidden agenda they want to push.
I am not singling out real estate agents though. They are doing their job. Dealing with people is dealing with hidden agendas. :)
- Tempestdata
Except if you actually think it doesn't happen with real products too, man, I hate to break down your ideal world bubble.
For a start, even as a joke, a lot of those jokes are just a cross between vandalism and fanboyism. E.g., it's trivial to run into reviews for games which not only aren't out there yet, but don't even have a beta or preview or much information out yet. I remember particularly Gothic 3 -- which eventually turned out to be a buggy bad joke -- which although just announced, and, really, all the information about it were a couple of screenshots that their engine works, and there were already gushing reviews for it on Amazon. You know, TEH GRATEST GAME EVAR!!! kinda reviews.
It's vandalism because even if it may be identifiable as an unfunny joke at that moment, fast forward a year and it's just noise in the actually useful signal.
Actually, even your kind of jokes sound like vandalism to me. It's having fun at the expense of spamming a useful resource and confusing the heck out of anyone who isn't magically aware whether the "Three Wolf Moon T-shirt" is a real product to buy or a joke, and whether the good or bad reviews are actual reviews or someone's bad idea of a joke.
You know, sorta like the guys posting goatse and rickrolling links on an unrelated mailing list. I don't doubt that in their deranged little brains it passes for freaking hilarious, but the rest of us just wish they'd die in a fire.
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I just refuse to believe that people can be that dumb...
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." -- Henry Menken
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
The article complains that obviously fake products are allowed to have fake reviews, and then makes the assumption that fake reviews must be allowed for real products. This does not necessarily follow. It might; but it seems a bit more likely that Amazon just might put a little more care into reviews of real products than into fake ones. I have no idea... I'm just pointing out the fallacy.
This exists! It's called Amazon Verified Purchase. See, for example:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R23WKI375G1JJM
I don't know if their ranking algorithm rates reviews from verified purchases higher or not, but wouldn't be surprised...
There's always the Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable. Oh wait, that's not a prank (sadly Denon doesn't still have this listed on their site, as it used to be a legitimate product).
Unsure if in an article or the comments, but it's arguably the most famous so surprised it wasn't mentioned.
$1000 Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable
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While we are mentioning funny amazon things, don't forget the reviews for the essential book on the network tool "Ping". (Read the first Customer Review)
Hey, I was only kidding. You don't have to MOD me "Troll" . . . again . . . .
Just in case someone thought Amazon might not be aware of these reviews and fake products, relax. They are fully aware of existence of these things; it's one of favorite pastimes of anyone working for item master and catalog teams to check these out occasionally. And while it is not exactly supported as a practice, it seems somewhat tolerated; with occasional outburst of activity for removing some comments and products. But one problem is that actually deleting any products is hard if not impossible; system is designed not to lose information and keep references via product ids available.
This is based on knowing a few people who worked (or still work) at Amazon. They were able to show the funniest products (beyond the usual three-wolf, badonkadonk tank, brass balls etc there's treasure trove of other funnies). And recommendation system is also pretty good at strengthening correlation between funny products so you can just follow suggestions to Tuscany Milk, bear poop and such.
The reviewers didn't seem to get the Parent Child Test. Unless I miss my guess, the cost of $10,000+ coupled with the "cool" figurine is the test. If someone orders it, they are clearly fascinated with shiny figurine toys and completely lack any concept of money, ergo they are children.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
2008 called. It wants to know how you like your three wolf moon shirt.
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Since the big October 27, 2010 change to Google search, in which "places" results appeared at the top of web search, reviews have become much more important. Google's web search was mostly based on links, but Google Places is heavily driven by reviews. For a local business, there typically are few reviewers, so spamming reviews is far more effective than creating link farms.
Google is not too good at filtering out phony businesses, either. See "Dominating Google Maps- The Most Effective Spam Ever And What You Can Learn From It", from an aggressive search engine optimization firm. That's an outright scam that fools Google easily.
Over on Bing, it's even worse. Search Bing for "New York City Locksmith". All 5 of the Bing locations listed are the same company, and they don't really have all those locations.
This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that's when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to 'howl at the moon' from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn't have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn't settle for the first thing that comes to him.
I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.
Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the 'guns'), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark.
Oh wait. That's their business model.
Never mind.
The only reviews I take at all seriously are at epinions.com and ConsumerReports.org .
And I read only the negative reviews for anything, anyway. Once I'm looking at something reviewed, I probably already want it, so I'm looking for reasons not to get it. And negative reviews are harder to write convincingly without actually knowing something about the thing and its context, anyway. Anyone mad enough at something to go to all that trouble is itself an honestly negative review.
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Guess you didn't get the memo. We're not DDOSing Amazon at the moment. Please post article relating to paypal.com.
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I've seen the opposite problem. About two years ago I bought a $100+ textbook that was supposedly an intro to data processing. Even though I've worked in IT for 30+ years and I'm currently the CIO of a small IT consulting company, I had to get the book for a course I was taking at the time. I thought the book was terrible -- poorly organized, outdated information, etc. -- and I wrote a fairly negative review. My review appeared only briefly, then was apparently deleted.
I wonder if one prong of an organized DDoS attack on site X is posting a story about site X on slashdot. More likely all of the hubbub has the conspiracy center of my brain in overdrive...
while [ 1 ]; do echo -n -e "\xe2\x95\xb$((($RANDOM&1)+1))"; done
While it's obvious that the Parent Child Test product isn't real, some or all of the others probably are!
First of all, you really can buy uranium ore. If nowhere else, you can go on ebay and get a revigator. Lots of countries can and do dig up uranium ore; but it takes a lot of processing to do anything nuclear-chain-reaction-related with it.
I'm pretty sure the rabbit is real, probably sent packed in ice or something. Rabbit meat is sold; I once ate rabbit bought at a local grocery store.
The only thing suspicious about the milk is its price. I'm sure milk can be easily bought online.
So some or all of these products are real products that have been the unfair butt of too many jokes.
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That's why they started including the "verified purchase" link. If the reviewer bought the product through Amazon before leaving the review, that flag is applied to the review. It's intended to make consumers more confident that the reviews are from real owners of the product.
At the same time, it was another way Amazon was trying to put some parameters around its reviewer community. A lot of them out there are very picky about their status as reviewers, and many voiced concerns about people who were just going online and writing reviews for anything and everything. The way I figure it, most shoppers will be able to tell the difference between a well-thought out review, and a lot of the brief first impressions, one-liners, and flames ("It didn't work out of the box--I'll never buy from that company again!") that abound.
For the record, I am a regular reviewer at Amazon, but don't get my undies in a bunch about the interal squabbles. I'm happy being a top-2,000 reviewer for now, and hope to make the top 100 someday. Contrary to Amazon's advice, which states that shorter reviews are most helpful, some of my highest rated reviews are quite long and fairly detailed. I always try to include information that might make a difference in someone's purchasing decision--the same type of information I was often seeking before making a purchase.
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
Now I'm gonna have to crush like 20 yellow Fiestaware pitchers to test my homemade GM tubes. Thanks for nothing Amazon.
If you look closely, there's actually a pretty thorough disclaimer for these products.
"Disclaimer: While we work to ensure that product information is correct, on occasion manufacturers may alter their ingredient lists. Actual product packaging and materials may contain more and/or different information than that shown on our Web site. We recommend that you do not solely rely on the information presented and that you always read labels, warnings, and directions before using or consuming a product. For additional information about a product, please contact the manufacturer. Content on this site is for reference purposes and is not intended to substitute for advice given by a physician, pharmacist, or other licensed health-care professional. You should not use this information as self-diagnosis or for treating a health problem or disease. Contact your health-care provider immediately if you suspect that you have a medical problem. Information and statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Amazon.com assumes no liability for inaccuracies or misstatements about products."
Not much left to chance on that.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
Some might be, but the uranium probably isn't. You can also order it from United Nuclear. The vendor on Amazon, Images SI, has a website that offers various scientific kits, geiger counters, and, yes, radioactive samples like the same uranium ore they sell on Amazon.
Granted, Tuscan Whole Milk is now wholly fake, but it might have been real at one point. I've even seen a Tuscan Milk truck here in Massachusetts.
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My favorite is to start researching a product and get into the reviews.
I often find the same review is cross-posted, copied, plagiarized, and just plain rewritten over and over. Sometimes I search on a distinctive phrase and marvel at how many different sites carry this crap. It both dilutes the trustworthiness (IMHO these review whores are just untrustworthy) and potential accuracy of reviews.
I read through reviews pretty carefully anyways, as I have read glowing reviews of products that I've purchased, and the stuff was just plain junk. And we've all read scathing reviews from someone (or apparently 'many') and in the end realized they had a bad experience, but their expectations were simply outlandish, and their resolution skills are totally lacking.
But that's just me.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Also, you forgot the Preferred (All Aluminum) Bleachers and the JL421 Badonkadonk tank!
Timothy>and it bothers me
Wow, dude, if you think these practices are new, then you need to wake up to the 19th century, from the snake oil scamming
to today's fake reviews, man has always been easily lead or swayed by use of misinformation or misrepresentation of information.
We could easily say that the reviews on Ebay are all fake too, and a good number of them are too, but you would need to develop a whole AI robot that scraped through the info of each user, then double checked that list to a list from the sellers to avoid self promotion, as well as another robot that includes a verification system through associated bank accounts, that none of the user leaving reviews are associated in anyway to the sellers, even then, there still is so many ways of fooling a computer, that you would need someone to analyze the way the reviews are written to see any similarities and check to see if there is not an autobot posting reviews...etc...etc...
Just read Exodus, and the only reason Heaven is not on the "10 worst" list is that God keeps 'moderating' the reviews.
Even more shocking is how easy it is to fake penthouse letters.
A lot of people joke about this, but penthouse actually sends fact finders out to verify all penthouse letters. They talk to all the parties involved, and require a reenactment before publishing.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
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A review is always written by another person, unless you are reading your own review which is just disturbing and probably costs a lot of puppy lives, who has other expectations, needs and wants.
Take a hole in the head, in don't need it. So if I were to review that product, I would be very negative, complain abouts it lack of use, the blinding pain and agony and the fact that the company failed to refund me for my funeral.
But if you are in the market for that product for whatever reason YOU might want it. Some people are after in need of a hole in the head and so would review it totally differently.
And what if the reviewer is not a user but a 3rd party, who just happens to get paid by ad revenue from Holes-R-Us? What if I bought it and now had to defend my purchase to myself so I review it glowingly rather then admit I had been delusional when buying it?
Amazon reviews are "famous" for being all over the place. Amazon itself has absolutely no quality control of any kind and anyone can post a review. Cue sellers writing their own reviews.
The way around this all is to check before you buy. Is there only one review that is glowing yet ratings are low, nobody else seems to have bought it? What about reviews on other sites. A good thing will be talked about.
Just checking one site for reviews, like the poster does, is just plain stupid. Does he only watch the BBC for his news? Only check one car dealer for his car?
Buyer beware. Always been true, always will be.
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Needless to say, relationships have since worsened, and he has recently ended up in the hospital
Which ironically was caused by him ordering an office chair for himself and prompty being attacked by a bobcat when he opened the box.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Deal with it.
I wonder if anyone has tried to buy any of these fake items to just see if anything would happen lol. I mean the ladybugs are only 24.05 (4500 lady bugs), XD. Hilarious stuff.
What sucks is they brought in body doubles for the reenactment.
I drank what? -- Socrates
Skip the positive reviews. 5 star ratings are worthless. If it's an expensive item, people are going to have a favorable opinion because they have to justify to themselves why the TV/card/widget they just dropped a few paychecks on is the greatest they've ever had, and it's perfect in every way. Many people never also own a competing product to give first hand experience why they opinion is justified. You also get the "astroturf" reviews from people who have a financial interest in pumping up the product -- many are right out of press releases. At 3 or 4 stars, people start telling about how good it is, except for a couple issues that nag them (short battery life, cheap knob broke off, missing a feature a competitor has, etc). 1 and 2 stars usually are for broken products/QA issues. It's often a shipping or DOA complaint,but sometimes there are a bunch of low because the as-sen-on-TV product really is a cheap piece of crap that doesn't do what it claims. Lousy customer support complaints also live here.
There goes my Chanukah present
So many of these products are real, the true mirth in them is the reviews. Although the one for Fresh Rabbits in TFA was funny, I can't get past this one... http://www.amazon.com/Male-Testicular-Exam-Model-Anatomy/dp/B0006TYJV6/ref=pd_sbs_gro_10
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Obviously some people here are having some problems understanding how fake reviews on a product can be a bad thing.
Well, here's a simple explanation: The first thing to consider is the number of sentences in the review which can easily create a new way of making the possibility of the review real. There is many ways that the review can be re-rated with absolutely no way that a review can be made more complex. If you're going to spend time reading a review, it's important to make sure that you are on the line of the _best_ possible reviewer, and there is no reason that the reviewers would be rating products with the number of stars that make a rating.
ALWAYS remember that looking for the proper relevance for the product is a required step in determining if there is resonance with the reviews posted and the actual quality of the reviewer. Pay attention to the number of reviews that do not result in a reviewer having the amount of stars needed to produce the product as needed. There is an inherent danger in the reviewer making reviews that are following the actual methodology of reviewing a product that only conforms to the regulated Amazon policies on posting reviews. The reviews that are making fun of products that are obviously a definite cause of people not believing in the sheer obliviousness some people have, who also do not pay any attention to the star-rating that is attached to reviews. Reading a review that only serves to create a more environmentally-friendly to the whole concept of "rating a product" is the ultimate use of these reviews. The false elements that don't add information about a product just create a method of rating a product with no possible recourse for the person who is determining the ability of the reviewer to pay attention or be humorous AT THE SAME TIME. This is the main reason that there should be stricter monitoring of comments that create an environment of "ratability" around certain items that only serve to confuse and obscure the rating that is the product, verifying that the product makes a legitimate use of rating systems.
Amazon relies on these reviewers to create long blocks of text that can be classified as reviews, with the people who post them eventually being classified as reviewers. The problem with this system is the reviewer ends up being the person who is not only paying for the product, but paying the most attention to the other reviews that are posted. With the meta-moderation, some reviews can be re-reviewed and posted as a review within a review, this is known as meta-moderating and is currently in use on many sites that rely on the posts of anonymous netizens to create a reasonable environment that allows others to read the feedback of the other reviews and products. You'll notice I included products in that list, because it is important that the product is considered when trying to determine the veracity of the posting. Only without the ratings can a real use of time be used, otherwise there will be a waste of time that accompanies the use of the problems that occur when ratings are used to differentiate between the useful products and useless product ratings.
There is no real reason why anyone should be posting a rating for the product that does not correlate with the rating it received. If we allow ratings to determine which product is ultimately purchased or researched by a person on the internet, there will never be a useful basis for the product. Why would anyone want the product to correlate with the number of stars that are received in a large number of products? Ratings are the key to this and it is necessary to ensure that the products that are being rated ARE BEING RATED.
Obviously this is something people here just don't get.
Here an example of how funny fake reveiws help drive incredible sales of a real item. http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Three-Short-Sleeve-Medium/dp/B000NZW3J8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=apparel&qid=1291935780&sr=8-3-catcorr
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I bought some laptop adapters on Amazon a few months ago. I chose one with about 20 good reviews, 4-5 stars..... and what do I get in the mail? Cheap, clunky adapters with ill-fitting plugs. Bait and switch.
This is just one more reason I'm not giving Amazon my business unless the company changes its ways.
I have no clue how the poster came to the conclusion that milk, a slaughtered rabbit, or the uranium ore are fake. Are they unusual for online ordering? Not really. Milk can be ordered online, rabbit can be had from online delicatessen stores, etc. Sure, the reviews are silly but so what?
What sucks is they brought in body doubles for the reenactment.
In this case... probably a good thing.
it was like that when I got here.. I wasen't here when that happened... second shift musta done that....
The price of Tuscan Milk has been dropping. Maybe the economy is getting better. *Cough*
Even more shocking is how easy it is to fake penthouse letters.
A lot of people joke about this, but penthouse actually sends fact finders out to verify all penthouse letters. They talk to all the parties involved, and require a reenactment before publishing.
I'm not entirely sure I believe you.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I quite like reading reviews of the Bible. They are very entertaining except for the excessively positive ones which don't really ring true. You can take a joke too far you know.
http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Bible-English-Standard-Version/dp/1581345968/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291975710&sr=1-3
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Oh, and it's Mencken.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I wouldn't trust the opinion of Amazon users anyway.
But I was moderated +2 informative!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking