The people giving 5 star ratings are most likely hired: Do you see a pattern here?
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I'm not hired either and I gave it 5 stars. One issue I do have with the ratings is people who are using TT Basic, Business, etc are reviewing the "Deluxe" version. Every version has different features and although many concepts are the same I don't think a review on "Turbo Tax Basic" should be a spotlight review for Turbo Tax Deluxe as there are differences.
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They're eBay feedback rating is pretty good too. I believe it was 98% out of around 20,000 ratings. It really is strange that there is such a drastic difference between their reseller ratings vs. amazon
509660
I always look at a reviewers profile. If they give a super amazing review, and they have only reviewed the 1 product, you can pretty safely assume the review is fake. Or they've only reviewed the 1 product plus a second other random product, (which seems to happen a lot to make them seem more "believeable") I assume those reviews are fake too. I think many companies pay people to write the reviews because it seems very common. I see alot of this on amazon especially with the health & beauty and cooking-type products. I wish there was a way to make people more aware of this.
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I've notice that, too. Looking at buying a receiver and all of them seem to have this rate. Is it perhaps sample size? Most of them seem to have less than 100. Sometimes I wonder if the negative stories are real. But in one case I trust the person and the review is real.
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Rumor is, some shady business practices could be contributing to the population of rave reviews. Some companies have been caught paying for reviews in the past.
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Actually if you've done any googling you would have found out that there are 1000s of Vine reviewers currently and you only need to have one or two reviews to get invited. There is also some analysis out there that looks at how Vine products rate versus these peoples normal reviews. Turns out about the same averages. Personally, I think most people are honest enough to try to do a good job. Then again, most people view the actions of others as they themselves would react. Thus I think they're honest, because I am. You think they are cheats because...
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That's because they are false reviews written by the company. I see this a lot and it is VERY easy to tell the difference between marketing department written copy and that from an end user.
1103308
Most people are asked to try out certain products and write reviews for them
1610148
Well, it has a number of 1* & 2* and a bunch of 5* (five stars rating). Is their product control so poor that some are good and some are bad?
1009754
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???
925331
I would think it is. They are rather lite in duty. I agree with the other comment. GMF
2226072
I'm not familiar with the five star. This is an amazing clipper. I'm very satisfied.
1303358
Hi C., thanks for asking. We are new to Amazon but to the best of my knowledge the last review (4 stars) from Ronald Richman is. The others are from purchasers from our retail operation - we are asking every customer to give us reviews. Hope that helps.
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There are many people that write deceiving reviews. Some are being paid and some are getting free product. For instance a person that gives 5-star reviews for three like products from three different companies the same day or within a couple of days. Saying for each, "nothing worked until I tried this". Also a variety of different products. It can take up are lot of time to do this research. Check the other $100's of various products reviewed at the same time. I have written down the names of 14 people that reviewed the same items around the same time, saying about the same thing. But not giving info that is significant.
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The rating is based on life testing. Companies usually test the product internally and then rate the product according to their test results.
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Amazon will have to refer this question to someone in their database that has had to use the services of this company. I believe it is rated 5 stars because the customers that purchased it are rating the ease of purchase......Not the insurance itself.
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Fake reviews will happen, but that doesn't mean they are all fake. I just popped on didn't see this earlier. Can't say for everyone but certainly working for me, helping to lower my appetite.