Reviews... What to believe?
2047293
Do not be worried about the 1 and 2 star reviews. This is an excellent heart rate monitor! I had another polar in the past that I thought was great, the F4, and I absolutely love this one even more. When you look at reviews, you should really look at how MOST people rated an item. Unfortunately, there will always be the stupid people that use the item wrong, abuse the item, too dumb to understand how to use it, etc and then blame the item itself for being cheaply made. I have used this model for well over a year and not had the battery die. That being said, I do hear that it is expensive to send it to Polar to get it replaced once it does die. The good new is, I believe that the F7 is identical to the F6 but the battery in the chest strap is user serviceable. Also, there absolutely is a way to lock the buttons if you find that buttons are being pushed accidentally during your workout (another example of stupid people not reading the directions and blaming it on the watch). Good Luck!
737660
I checked a few of the reviewers posting histories. While the ones who have only a single record of reviewing any product might be cause for suspicion, there are many other reviewers whose records appear to be legitimate. I'd suggest that this is not a case of a manufactured conspiracy, but simply a case of poor manufacturing quality control. The buyers who got good units were very satisfied. The buyers who got less-than-good-units were not very satisfied. BTW, this product is currently on sale at a daily-deal website for $69.99 delivered. Your review (and others complaining of poor quality) convinced me to purchase this product ONLY if covered by a "satisfaction guaranteed" warranty.
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.
2253053
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.
1009756
Thanks for pointing this out! A check on some of the reviewers' profiles suggest you are right!
1114609
Thank you, Travis. Many reviews do look fake -- how can a no name brand get 75 reviews in only 2 months of product launch? Anyway, since I've already bought it, I'll keep trying. Appreciate your tips, though.
2128041
@Derek Always look at the reviews. Hopefully more people will mention specifics. Look at the reviews for it for the last 6 months on this and other sites to see. Look at what they say so you know what issues some people may be having.
405163
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.
2218962
Good question and I'd be skeptical too. My review was legit (not sure how I'd prove that...), just haven't made time to review stuff in the past. The tablet is decent for the price.
814834
It helps if you pick "verified purchaser" when you look at the reviews, and also compare the 1-star reviews (and how many are verified purchasers) to the higher ones... if there are a lot of low ranking reviews from verified purchasers, beware...
270157
I bought it too but didn't open it yet, looking for non bogus reviews...if these reviews are bogus i'd like to know what the quams are with this product (2030).
610231
This questions has been answered a bunch. Just look down on the page above the reviews.
533059
It may have been true when you wrote it that none of the five-star reviewers had done any other reviews before, but that's certainly not now, though it's less than two weeks later. But that was never evidence that the 5-star reviews were fake, anyway. I understand why someone would be skeptical of such an iinexpensive product, but I do wonder how you could be so confident that this is a scam without having any direct experience with the product.
1338085
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....
1043648
Danphy, have you read the reviews and seen the star ratings? and you really are considering buying it? Seriously?
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!
1541958
I KNOW right?!? What has been happening to Amazon lately? More than half of the reviews I read seem to be "fake"! This really makes me feel nervous about buying the products because if companies have to pay people to leave fake reviews, its says something about their integrity, and probably about the quality of the product too...