New York magazine reports that shopping on Amazon is a mess. It’s got an antiquated interface and lots of spam results and reviews. It’s not a nice experience and you’re not sure what you’re buying.
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“There was the ’90s-retro e-commerce interface, which conceals a marketplace of literally millions of sellers, each scrapping for relevance, using Amazon as a sales channel for their own semi-independent businesses. It subjected ...
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Amazon issued a press release stating that it is fighting with 10,000 Facebook groups that sell fake Amazon reviews. It’s ironic, since Amazon has been a chief promoter of the avenue allowing this behavior: Section 230. Section 230 allows tech platforms to host and indirectly promote just about any type of bad behavior, including illegal behavior (fake review services and yes, human trafficking, murder-for-hire, etc.) and then say it’s just a community space and belatedly remove the ...
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Amazon.com has removed 20,000 product reviews after a Financial Times (FT) investigation suggested that some of the site's top U.K. reviewers may have profited from leaving positive ratings, reports Business Insider. The paper's analysis showed nine of Amazon's top 10 U.K. reviewers dished out five-star reviews to products from little-known Chinese brands. The FT found the same products in Facebook groups and forums that offer free products or money in exchange for ratings....
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September 28, 2019
September 28, 2019
An expert in todayβs WSJ estimates that 30% of Amazon reviews are fake. In addition, Amazon gives its Vine users free products to post reviews. Iβm thinking 40% are suspect.
The article shares that customers value a product with more reviews and a lower average rating than a product with fewer reviews and a higher average.
The service ReviewMeta allows one to test an Amazon page for fake reviews. Fakespot is another fake review service.
A consumer research group surveyed Amazon and found significant evidence suggesting fake reviews for many items. Since reviews often influence your search results and help you decide, the fake reviews are potentially leading customers to bogus products.
Excerpt: "One example, a set of headphones by an unknown brand called Celebrat, had 439 reviews, all of which were five-star, unverified and were posted on the same day, suggesting they had been ...
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July 16, 2018
July 16, 2018
Amazon is luring customers with fake reviews. Todayβs Times shares how a bogus bookseller has 1,400 reviews and many of them make little sense. The motive: the bookseller is selling books at 100x the going rate. The goal is trick some elderly or mislead person into buying a book for $600 instead of $6. Since Amazon may get 30% of the sale, the higher fake price benefits it.
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