I always get spammed by Chinese low-lifes looking to enlist me to review their crappy products. I've followed one of those from beginning to end and their particular trick is to garner lots of positive reviews for whatever inexpensive shit product they're pushing (inexpensive because they give it away), and then when it gets a high enough ranking, they swap it for a more expensive piece of shit product...which has positive reviews and positioning from the pumped product. The Amazon Marketplace is a cesspool
This is why when I want to glean meaning from Amazon reviews, I look for bad ones, and ignore all the 4 or 5 star reviews completely.
I imagine that the next development in fake reviews will be bad reviews that make it seem like the product only has minor flaws, in an attempt to bury the honest bad reviews that describe the worst ones. For all I know some of that is happening already, but it's much harder to do well than writing fake positive reviews.
I look for bad ones, and ignore all the 4 or 5 star reviews completely.
Many of the bad reviews are fake as well.
My daughter used to earn money by writing fake 5-star reviews on Amazon. She was asked several times to write fake 1-star reviews to disparage competitors. She always refused out of principle.
Actually the level of purposeful incompetence by the FTC means corruption was involved to ensure no penalties. Those were not fake reviews, by law they were false advertising with all the legal penalties associated with that, there is not excuse for the FTC to so incompetently handle the case, straight up wire fraud and should have been prosecuted as such, TFC now corrupt as fuck.
I always get spammed by Chinese low-lifes looking to enlist me to review their crappy products. I've followed one of those from beginning to end and their particular trick is to garner lots of positive reviews for whatever inexpensive shit product they're pushing (inexpensive because they give it away), and then when it gets a high enough ranking, they swap it for a more expensive piece of shit product...which has positive reviews and positioning from the pumped product.
The Amazon Marketplace is a cesspool
This is why when I want to glean meaning from Amazon reviews, I look for bad ones, and ignore all the 4 or 5 star reviews completely.
I imagine that the next development in fake reviews will be bad reviews that make it seem like the product only has minor flaws, in an attempt to bury the honest bad reviews that describe the worst ones. For all I know some of that is happening already, but it's much harder to do well than writing fake positive reviews.
I look for bad ones, and ignore all the 4 or 5 star reviews completely.
Many of the bad reviews are fake as well.
My daughter used to earn money by writing fake 5-star reviews on Amazon. She was asked several times to write fake 1-star reviews to disparage competitors. She always refused out of principle.
Actually the level of purposeful incompetence by the FTC means corruption was involved to ensure no penalties. Those were not fake reviews, by law they were false advertising with all the legal penalties associated with that, there is not excuse for the FTC to so incompetently handle the case, straight up wire fraud and should have been prosecuted as such, TFC now corrupt as fuck.
"I know how reliable the places I shop at are. The only issues I've had were delivery delays. I can wait for a day or two for a package."
Are you crazy? Waiting 2 days for my new plastic vegetable-noodle-cutter?
The suspense would kill me.