Suspicious reviews: Is anybody else suspicious about so many 4&amp;5 star reviews where this is the ONLY review they've written?
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Check out the reviews by Rick D., between Dec. 30 and Jan 7 he goes from a 20-something male to an active male in his 30s. Hmm suspicious much?
1009763
Same feeling here. I have never seen a product with 93 5-star reviews and only 1 one negative, 1-star. Nothing in-between. Seriously??? Plus a number of people have mainly Ozeri reviews. Plus all these reviews are extremely frequent: one every few days. What are the chances???
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Good question - I tried to write an even stronger review warning against this vendor, but the that kind of content is apparently inappropriate for a review - I'm supposed to leave that kind of feedback in another place (one that I haven't yet found). All I could do is review the product, so that's what I did.
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I pasted a group of exercises in my review of this product. Click on 4 star reviews. My moniker is By JLSMD "LaughingAllTheWay" . Right now, it appears my review is the second in the list of 4 star reviews. Good luck to you.
1295293
These are bogus reviews. It did nothing for me. I would say 90% of these reviews are from a circle of false reviewers. Check all their other product reviews and you will see that they are reviewing the same circle of products
1278730
Negative as well as positive SHILL REVIEWS are a persistent and widespread problem on Amazon...in fact, it's an entire industry (google "reputation management")...many of the biggest corporations (e.g. Bose) use them!
1960593
I reviewed this and found several reviews with 5 stars that was not considered helpful. In my review I gave 5 stars, and was considered helpful. I'm not sure where you are going with this question?
1284531
I thought the exact same thing - such reviews are a destroyer of the forum's credibility. Send me one and I'll give an honest review - oh, except I don't have to pay $80. Well THAT is the part that makes me honest!
1766238
This makes me suspicious that they are fake reviews.When a product has so many positive reviews like this and they are simple reviews, 99% of the time if not 100% they are faked.
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Is it appropriate to write a review to point out that other reviews are fake? Like this, for example: http://www.amazon.com/review/RVB2G6BM1FZ0C/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN;=B005A3RUPU&nodeID;=&tag;=&linkCode;= . I put 5 in the one above to avoid changing the rating average. But DaveCt is right; unless people bother reading the full review, my putting 5 stars is actually worth the same (as far as the star average rating goes) as the other and obviously fake reviews.so, what star rating would/should/do you give?
1009761
I agree. I was just going through all the reviews and the majority got it for free or were not Verified Purchases. With that in mind, I am now skeptical of all of their products. Companies should realize that this whole paid review process can backfire.
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I am very confused by Amazon's new program to supply their top reviewers with free product in an attempt to help other Amazon shoppers. This program seems to be put in place to quickly propel sales of a particular item and in the case of this trimmer, which has not been on the market for very long, it has a very large number of reviews over a short period of time. And I always make my decision to purchase an item based on the number of reviews and the quality of the content of those reviews. So, this Vine program seems to lend itself to bias and misuse which really does not help the Amazon community! Maybe we should simply make the decision to not purchase Vine reviewed products? Just a thought!!!
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Would certainly say any reports such as this are incorrect. Reviewer samples are not paid by the company and are given away to select reviewers for an "honest" assessment. There would be no hidden agenda for supplying a reviewer with a "one off" build that contains higher end parts than what is claimed as this would surely be discovered over time.
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I think Consumer Reports review quality is getting worse. Too many products, they don't test like they used to, and their politics seem to affect a lot of their listings. I still subscribe and use their research, but find I need to use it as only one source. Watch their ratings vs. user ratings on various sites, and you will find lots of divergence.
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I'm glad Amazon has transparency factors, such as "verified purchase" and "see my other reviews" to help discern legitimate reviews from possible phony reviews. If you peek under the covers, many of these stellar reviews appear suspicious.
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I wonder that too, looks like many of the reviews could be fake or people from the company. They only have 1 review and it happens to be this product....
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I depend a lot on the reviews here on Amazon. More and more, I am seeing bogus reviews being written. Not only do I want to see Amazon deleting these reviews, I want to see these liars punished for their attempts to mislead consumers. It is bad business for both the companies doing this, and it makes Amazon look careless for allowing it to continue.