Dont you worry about it, sonny! Dah Dah would do anything for his precious little grandchild. I've got a guy who worked for the CIA in network administration so we ended up ordering three. We'll access it from the conference room remotely. Amazon gave us a deal on three installations -- seemed worth it!
Well first rule of Amazon is to only look at verified reviews, and failing that, use some common sense and buy something based on the specifications you like. If it sucks, send it back. I've had over 600 amazon prime deliveries in the last 3 years and I suspect I'll set another yearly record this year. Ease of use, selection, and no hassle returns are the way to go.
A filter for “verified purchases” would be a start but can still be games.
They need a flagging option for fraudulent reviews/products other than adding your own comment in the reviews. In looking for an HDTV antenna, I found one with hundreds of 4/5* verified reviews and thought I’d hit the jackpot. Turns out all of the good reviews were for when the product listing was a TV mount and the “verified purchase” reviews for the antenna were terrible; they were banking on no one going past all of the fake reviews.
el hombre wrote:
A filter for “verified purchases” would be a start but can still be games.
They need a flagging option for fraudulent reviews/products other than adding your own comment in the reviews. In looking for an HDTV antenna, I found one with hundreds of 4/5* verified reviews and thought I’d hit the jackpot. Turns out all of the good reviews were for when the product listing was a TV mount and the “verified purchase” reviews for the antenna were terrible; they were banking on no one going past all of the fake reviews.
Funny, I've bought hundreds of things on Amazon and the only thing feel I've gotten scammed on was also an HD antenna.
Did you ever find an HD antenna that was any good? I gave up looking because they all look the same, I don't understand the specs, and I don't trust the reviews.
SpAArtaQvLVsss wrote:
Are you that naive that you place trust in ANYTHING online market? Really. The world is flooded with fake info, reviews, profiles, spam bots and all sorts of gaming algorithms that reduce the utility of anything online.
Tech is not helpful any more. Excess tech destroys the user experience, in all ways.. B737 MAX 8, shopping on Amazon, polling, review sites, online "education" and so much more.
I repeat: the high-water mark of net utility was around 2005, before social media became the prime driver of all content and before mobile devices destroyed attention spans and ability to read... websites actually worked, fast, easily, and delivered what you sought, back then.
Probably the only thing this troll has ever said that is 100% on the mark.
HD Antenna purchaser wrote:
Did you ever find an HD antenna that was any good? I gave up looking because they all look the same, I don't understand the specs, and I don't trust the reviews.
Not on Amazon. Look on Monoprice, similar prices with better reputations.
FYI, the product with 421 reviews from Rojo in the OP now has 0 reviews. So clearly amazon's technology has worked to remove the fake ones. Was it not fast enough for you?
Tyler Durdenn wrote:
Schedule a meeting with Jeff Bezos. When you get there, tell him you know he’s cheating on his wife and that you’ll tell her unless he hires you as a consultant.
All rich guys are cheating on their wife, and their wife already knows it. You have to provide proof to the media or something, and it has to be in the form of pictures or something they can scandalize or they won't care either.
Even though they are essentially cornering innumerable markets at once now, they need to remember how ebay fell from grace, by failing to insure that people were getting good quality stuff as advertised. The failure to get working stuff was the reason I dropped out of ebay. If people can have little trust in the ratings amazon publishes on its website and puts in a prominent place, then it will lose business rapidly. It opened itself up to this by inviting innumerable sellers to sell on their site, a way of cornering the market that gave them beaucoup inventory but also great potential for fraud and deceit and undoing the quality of the brand.
ekw wrote:
FYI, the product with 421 reviews from Rojo in the OP now has 0 reviews. So clearly amazon's technology has worked to remove the fake ones. Was it not fast enough for you?
Technology? You mean me calling and telling the ASIN and speaking to a manager? I was just giving them one days worth of free consulting services as a trial run.
Bad Wigins wrote: All rich guys are cheating on their wife, and their wife already knows it. You have to provide proof to the media or something, and it has to be in the form of pictures or something they can scandalize or they won't care either.
Yes. And all rich women are cheating on their hubs, except that in contrast to the scenario above, their hubs are generally not smart enough to know it.... and that dynamic is true not only of rich women, in fact, but all women. Remember..
Principle #1: women are smart, and you... are not..
Aren't they protected by 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1)?
I think it's a business/loyalty risk, not a legal one.
I'm kinda new here, and can't tell whether this an intentional ongoing joke:
"there website is really suffering from a MAJOR trust issue and it's setting them up for a huge lawsuit."
If you want to get hired as a consultant at Amazon, I suggest you adopt the persona of a skanky looking, artificially racked 50 year old Hispanic woman and text Bozos about your interest.
RecognizerOfClassics wrote:
women are smart, and you... are not..
I can do math
caller out of racists wrote:
Gee, here we have rojo or his moderators taking down accurate criticisms of his own site.
This site is full of racist, misogynistic, and homophobic posts. I'm sure that is just what Amazon wants. When called out on it, rather than answer or doing better, they just have those posts taken down.
I'm sure rojo will have his moderators delete this one too. Cowards.
It really is ironic.
Rojo criticizes amazon for lack if transparency and trust. Dozens point out his own site is far worse in this regard. He deletes those comments, leaving no trace of the criticism.
They actually are cracking down on bogus reviews. About a year ago I was part if a group that would post bogus reviews in exchange for free products.
Bra-ket wrote:
They actually are cracking down on bogus reviews. About a year ago I was part if a group that would post bogus reviews in exchange for free products.
The way it worked was we would buy the product, wait until it arrived, post a review, and then get reimbursed so it would be pretty hard to track.
Sailerman wrote:
caller out of racists wrote:
Gee, here we have rojo or his moderators taking down accurate criticisms of his own site.
This site is full of racist, misogynistic, and homophobic posts. I'm sure that is just what Amazon wants. When called out on it, rather than answer or doing better, they just have those posts taken down.
I'm sure rojo will have his moderators delete this one too. Cowards.
It really is ironic.
Rojo criticizes amazon for lack if transparency and trust. Dozens point out his own site is far worse in this regard. He deletes those comments, leaving no trace of the criticism.
What are you talking about?
1) I haven't deleted any posts at all.
2) I'm not talking about this messageboard. I'm talking about the website of one of the biggest companies in the world.
If you have a problem with a thread, why don't you give me a call personally at 8440-538-7786. I'll give Amazon credit, if you search hard enough you can actually call a human there. Unlike facebook where that is impossible.
Maybe I missed it, but has no one linked fakespot.com? It's great. You plug in the Amazon URL and it spits out a rating for the review and an adjusted rating for the product with the fake reviews thrown out. It's not perfect, but it spots the obvious fraudulent reviews. In general, I won't buy things with a fakespot rating of worse than B. I run it on all non-name brand products, which is where fake reviews tend to proliferate.
Seriously. Try it.
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