Amazon reviews

Greebo said:
Yeah, annoys me too. saw one once whch was a one star review along the lines of "bought olympus lens for my canon camera - didnt fit"
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Had one the other day for a USB power pack I bought - I'm not sure if they were trolling or really that stupid but it was something along the lines of - "bought this because I thought it would recharge my phone anywhere but it needs to be plugged into the wall sometimes".
 
tres said:
Most of these incentivised reviews are still verified purchases.

I got so much junk from reviewing stuff. I have boxes of dash cams, bluetooth speakers, iPad cases etc. Some really odd things as well. I've got a 5 CCTV camera set up to review still.
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how did you get some much free stuff?
 
Not amazon but where I bought my car from was full of good reviews on Auto Trader, the dealer even said, "did you see all of our reviews" I was impressed hence why I went to view a car there, ended up buying the car and when completing, it turned out the dealer gives a years free AA membership if you write a good review. Very naughty.
 
Cheap second hand car dealerships are the ebay of real life. Dodgy auctioned write offs which got through a process of zip tying anything loose, a clean and a free little MOT by their in house salesman who was sent on a 3 day college course so taht he could do it and not a mechanic that would declare it a danger. On purchase they remind you that you have a 3 month warranty handled by a third party that they pay £8 per deal on and isn't worth the paper its printed on.
 
v0n said:
How does that happen - do you just write a lot of bad reviews and traders offer incentives to change the review or do you write a lot of good reviews and traders want you to review their stuff specifically?
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Ace Modder said:
how did you get some much free stuff?
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I reviewed about 30 things I'd previously bought then used a few review websites to request the chance to review products

After I reviewed 100+, I get emailed regularly. I get about 10 items a day offered!
 
My review of Amazon?

Rains too much, too many deadly insects and spiders, too few actual Amazonian built women, and not enough beer.
 
It was just before my holiday and I was looking for an underwater camera and didn't want to get a go pro

I saw all these 5* products, but being the careful buyer I am I liked looked deeper. It's the first time I've seen so many "sample" reviews.
Only one guy did a proper image based review. It clearly showed the product was tosh. And all of these devices looked like clones.

Now I look for helpful reviews only.

Is better than nothing.

And yes, some of the question responses.. Im surprised these idiots can even use Internet banking etc. It makes you realise how all these scams work. I don't come across such people day to day.
 
I ordered something on sunday, it arrived yesterday and today I got a pestering email from the seller "Feedback request, can you give me feedback please....?" I havn't even opened it yet its an xmas present. :rolleyes:

I'm tempted to give her feedback she wasn't expecting at all.

Semple said:
Haha yeah there are some right morons answering questions.

I keep coming across frequent ones like "does so and so do this?", to which some idiot responds "i don't know, i haven't used it yet". Why the **** answer a Q&A if you've not used the product yet.
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Probably because if you ever leave a review or answer a question you get constant emails from Amazon saying "such and such a person has asked a question can you answer it?" so they leave flippant answers I imagine.
 
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