Amazon is heading to court again, trying to wipe out more
fake product reviews for books and products posted on Amazon.com.
Not exact matches
But this coffee maker might be most worth a try: It's a # 1 best - seller on Amazon with over 1,500
reviews and a 4.5 rating, and it gets an A on the site Fakespot, which spots which
products might have
fake reviews.
By incorporating users» social media accounts and allowing only those who have used the
product or service to leave a
review, you reduce the probability of users creating
fake reviews to boost their reputation.
These
fake «negative»
reviews are designed to flood search engine results and convince skeptics to overcome their initial sense of doubt and become believers (and more importantly, buyers of his
product).
Much like the Sports Betting Champ, the SportsBettingStar makes his money by heavily marketing his
product to the public, selling his system by inflating his winning percentages and covering up negative
reviews (or creating
fake positive
reviews for that matter).
Tempted to write a glowing
review of a friend's
product under a
fake name?
Some
reviews online demonstrate that the
product Xanogen was promoted with «
fake blogs» and «
fake reviews».
Amazon.com (though, read
reviews — some suspect Amazon's Ohhirra to be
fake or counterfeit
product — thats why I always order this
product from iHerb.com even though its a lot more expensive) or iHerb.com.
In fact, if the
reviews on acne websites average around somewhere in the middle then it's more likely you should disregard them; a portion of online
reviews for
products are nearly always
fake or written by overly hopeful people who simply imagined the effects.
And I became very disenchanted with not only the
fake reviews, but how the
products were shipped.
The REAL reason they are doing this is because Amazon is flooded with
FAKE REVIEWS put up by Chinese troll farms, and Amazon's «Gold Box» is now just a clearing house for Chinese companies that pay money for
product placement.
Here's a list of the 10
products where Amazon's acknowledging the
fake reviews.
Interestingly, the
fake reviews seem to give these
products a surprising amount of popularity.
Fake reviews are an issue for all types of
products sold on Amazon, not just books, but I have been monitoring author reaction to this development in particular.
This lawsuit targets all
fake reviews for all
products.
While we will largely focus on how these
reviews affect Kindle and paperback books, this lawsuit is against
fake reviews for every
product.
That is, generating
fake reviews to make a
product seem better than it actually is.
Then there was the piece the New York Times ran on restaurants and other companies who pay people to write
fake good
reviews for their
products, and a similar piece by On The Media for WNYC (it's worth a listen!)
In the last few months, two new websites have come online in an effort to weed out
fake reviews and give buyers an honest view of
products on Amazon.
Ignored the
reviews about the this
product being a
fake considering we went through 3 full bags purchased from Amazon and our golden loved it.
Most and probably all of them are from China, and it's hard to tell the good from the bad based on Amazon
reviews because the sellers have flooded their pages with
fake reviews, or have taken old
product pages and swapped out the merchandise so that the
reviews no longer make sense.
Other telltale examples of
fake online
reviews include generic messages without references to specific services or
products, repetitive wording in multiple
reviews or even usernames, and poor English (or whatever your local language happens to be).
But FakeSpot's statistical analysis tries to spot trends and give you an idea of how likely the
reviews below a given
product are
fake.
The Mate 10 Pro entered the market with no carrier partnerships, it has faced accusations of spying for the Chinese government, it was recently caught getting people to write
fake reviews on Best Buy's website, and the FBI, CIA, and NSA have all warned against using Huawei
products.