Why do people do this? (Amazon questions)

PardonTheWait

PardonTheWait

PardonTheWait

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I've seen this repeatedly, on product pages for all sorts of stuff:

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What possessed this person to write this? I mean... well that's it really. What's the deal? They have no idea what the answer to the question is, and don't even have the product the question's about. I see it on all sorts of stuff - someone says how long is *whatever item* when it's extended, some idiot says I'm really sorry I don't own this product so I don't know. Are people that bored?

Same thing with reviews. Bought this for my son, I haven't given it to him yet. Three stars.

Edit: Yes I'm buying a label maker, don't judge me! I've turned into an old lady :(
 
You get a response rate for answering questions, when you buy a product and a question is asked you automatically get an email asking you to answer it.
People might be making these useless replies by assuming they have been asked and must answer to keep their friendly chums at amazon sweet.
I am not convinced they are all taking the ****.
Some might be responding like this, as they bought an associated item and got a stupid email asking them to answer the question anyway.
I got this about oven bulbs once. A different bulb, for a different oven, and the question was would it fit.... I DINNAE KEN.

Some probably are.
 
PardonTheWait said:
I've seen this repeatedly, on product pages for all sorts of stuff:

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What possessed this person to write this? I mean... well that's it really. What's the deal? They have no idea what the answer to the question is, and don't even have the product the question's about. I see it on all sorts of stuff - someone says how long is *whatever item* when it's extended, some idiot says I'm really sorry I don't own this product so I don't know. Are people that bored?

Same thing with reviews. Bought this for my son, I haven't given it to him yet. Three stars.

Edit: Yes I'm buying a label maker, don't judge me! I've turned into an old lady :(
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Seems a waste of time and effort putting an answer like that , when you don’t have the product .

I guess there are a lot of bored people at home during the day.

I guess it’s that or Jeremy Kyle?

Haha
 
I've seen this quite a bit and just down vote it and comment on it asking why they are replying with a non-answer.
 
Yea, I heard it's because of the wording of the Amazon email people get, that they assume they have to put some kind of response, even if its something like that.

For me, the worst offenders on Amazon are people who give one star ratings because of shipping or other non-product related reasons. Also quite frankly, some of the five star 'Works.' reviews, with no further clarification or detail.
 
AETAaAS said:
For me, the worst offenders on Amazon are people who give one star ratings because of shipping or other non-product related reasons. Also quite frankly, some of the five star 'Works.' reviews, with no further clarification or detail.
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Yes! We were just talking about this. Like they give it one star and say it's the best such-and-such they've ever used, but it took a week to come.

Or they buy a machine that does task a, not task b, and it's clearly stated, then they give it two stars because it doesn't do task b.

Ooooh, it grinds my gears. I've set myself off now, I won't sleep.
 
AETAaAS said:
Yea, I heard it's because of the wording of the Amazon email people get, that they assume they have to put some kind of response, even if its something like that.
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That's precisely what it is, you get email to the effect of "MagicBoy has a question about the product you purchased, can you help?" Funk yeah, I can help MagicBoy, I have a slow 5 minutes right now, what does he need to know. You click. Question reads "Does this coffee machine link up with spotify?". Sticks tongue out. Types. "Don't know fella, don't use spotify". Send. Reaches for toilet paper. Not for a second do you presume that you've just made the most unhelpful public post in questions section.
 
Yeah this really annoys me, one of the many reasons i hardly use amazon for anything.

Surely they must know the wording of their emails is causing confusion and making the Q&A section more or less useless?
 
PardonTheWait said:
What possessed this person to write this?
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If somebody asks a question about an item you purchased then you will often get an email asking you to reply to the question, many people don't realise the question isn't directly to them and try to answer as helpfully as they can, many just ignore them. It's really funny when you get asked to answer a question about the fit of the bra you bought your GF lol.


PardonTheWait said:
Edit: Yes I'm buying a label maker, don't judge me! I've turned into an old lady :(
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I bought some label strips of Amazon last week for my old Dymo labeller and it turns out they don't make the 6mm wide ones anymore it's all 9mm /grr
 
I've always assumed that since you get an email saying "Can you answer this question?" people just click the link and reply with tat thinking that they are the only ones being asked to answer.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you only get the option to answer a question about the product if you've recently bought said product?
 
This winds me up no end with Amazon, they really need to clamp down on these.

I've seen other responses like "i haven't used it yet so i can't comment". If you can't comment on it then why on gods green earth are you answering the question.
 
Just like other people said in the thread I'm sure they get the email to answer the question but think it's an automatic response from them buying buying the product rather than another user actually wanting to know the answer.

User fault like always. :confused:
 
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