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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."
Because while some fake reviews are obvious, many may not be.
IF someone can't rely on the features offered for shopping, then the experience has been ruined.
IT's a pretty easy concept. so easy, that someone who posts fake reviews on the Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt able to grasp in with just a few days of contemplation.
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Those who think of false reviews as "jokes" are just boors with a limited world view. It exactly the same mentality that thinks "tagging" a building or park bench is cool. Juvenile minds have no respect for the value of a good, well tended community resource. To the small minded, the limited benefit they receive by defacing the commons is not over weighed by the damage done, because they are unable to understand the damage or value of what they are defacing.
We are all just people.
So what you guys did was only waste the time of everyone who wasn't ignorant enough to mistake it for an obvious joke.
Five stars. You should have been a poet.
Hey Noah, why don't you try reading the product review:
Radioactive sample of uranium ore. Useful for testing Geiger Counters. License exempt. Uranium ore sample sizes vary. Shipped in labeled metal container as shown. Shipping Information: We are always in compliance with Section 13 from part 40 of the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and regulations and Postal Service regulations specified in 49 CFR 173.421 for activity limits of low level radioactive materials. Item will be shipped in accordance with Postal Service activity limits specified in Publication 52. Radioactive minerals are for educational and scientific use only.
$40 for a little canister that varies in size and can only be used for education and scientific use only. Good luck ballasting your boat with that.
... you know I'm sure the reviews on Amazon are paramount to scientists looking to calibrate a Geiger counter. And the online uranium shopping experience has been once again ruined!
But I await your argument for calibrating your Geiger Counter
How come you stopped comparing me to fanboys and goatse trolls? Why not Hitler now?
My work here is dung.
Shut up, douchemonger. The guy was trying to make a point.
I, for one, purchased some less expensive uranium ore to check the functionality of my 1960s-vintage CD Geiger counter. Nice to know that it's not working before you get a cloud of obvious fallout that reads nothing.