You are 100% correct. I bought products with good reviews and the products didn't even work. When I tried to leave a bad review warning other customers Amazon wouldn't post my reviews. They labeled my reviews as inappropriate. So, Amazon allows fake reviews. Smh
The same thing has happened to me multiple times, they seem to only want positive reviews, they always find issue with negative reviews so they won’t get anymore reviews out of me.
I complained to Amazon about a seller emailing me to remove a negetive review for an Amazon gift certificate worth 3 times the item worth. I got no reply. Two weeks later, the seller item is still up and running (with its 25k 5 stars reviews), and I keeping getting emails from the seller about removing my review... So now I am amending my review and trying to to post a screen shot of the email but unlike other reviews I posted, this one is never approved, never acknowledged, and totally ignored. The reason I was going through this is because I have close friends selling on Amazon that had their accounts closed for much less violations of Amazon rules. I think when you have a product that makes lots of money to Amazon, the rules are out the window
@@trollgod7565 The negative ones tend to be the most accurate, you can just read to see what people say, of course. Positive ones are the most usually fake that say a product is "cool" or "hot" 🤪
Negative ones are fake too. Competitors will buy fake reviews for each other’s products to give them a bad review. I’m this because my friend’s product was hit by fake reviews from bots
@@eduardoosuna1995 You can usually spot the fakes because of the low specificity (or they demonstrate it's a user error instead of a bad product, sometimes). Most of the time there's something clear about a certain element of the product on the legitimate reviews that you can see is likely to be problematic by its nature.
I only do reviews on Amazon when I have an issue with a product and some are obviously sponsored. One time I bought a set of flooring knee pads and recieved a pair that were obviously used as the entire pad portion of the left knee pad was torn off so I posted a review about it and it was removed even though everything was true, accurate, and no foul language or anything.
I can back you up in your statements. We reviewed Amazon stuff, and if they were not satisfied with the reviews, they insisted you change it or be charged for the products you reviewed. It was a total scam, so we stopped as soon as they started that crap. They even wanted us to open new Amazon accounts to do a different review. They suck IMO and the reviews are worthless. DO NOT BELIEVE ANY OF THEIR REVIEWS!!
I leave a lot reviews for all types of products and services. One weird thing I notice sometimes is when sometimes they tell me to email them, which I assume is to offer some kind of bribe to make me post more positive reviews for them (or delete/edit my negative reviews).
I bought a jacket on Amazon and yesterday the seller called me, and then texted when I didn't answer to confirm what size I ordered. WTF I didn't know they were given my personal info. So sketchy.
I bought several things from Amazon and some didn't arrive. I tried talking with Amazon reps to get it resolved. They were not helpful and they were rude, so I left a feedback on seller. When you submit a review, it is reviewed by Amazon instead of being automatically posted like it should be. I received an email saying that my review didn't meet their standard lol wow! Such garbage. Amazon is manipulative. I would rather buy from someone who wants genuine feedback and is about their customers.
I tried posting a poor review after the seller tried to bribe me into giving them a 5-star review, and Amazon took the review down. It is a remarkably scummy company, and they prioritize the profit of sellers over honest reviews about products and the tactics that companies use to dishonestly inflate their product reputations.
I live in an apartment building, and absolutely hate how all the Amazon packages are left by the mailboxes, lobby, or even outside the building’s front door. They stopped delivering them to the apartment doors. Packages are being stolen now. I try hard not to buy from Amazon. 👎 Macys uses UPS, and they deliver to my apartment door. 🎉
amazon is actually an extremely difficult website to use if you have to get the rock bottom price on something. it takes so long using so many filters and weird search terms. youre totally correct on the pay for play thing theyre doing. i hate shopping on their website coz it takes me like 10-20 hours to finish a 200+$ order coz the longer i spend the lower the price keeps getting so i just dont have the best price yet so i cant check out. I cant just get ripped off you know? the adds with paid bot reviews have the same product from the same factory but have higher overhead costs so they will always be more expensive. what a kafkaesque nightmare of a jungle website.
I read all the bad reviews. Sometimes it’s stupid people, sometimes it gives you an idea of the quality, and sometimes not. But I think reading negative reviews helps. Sometimes I just won’t buy it based on negative reviews, which helps my wallet.
I can't lol. Every single electronic product has a 1 star review saying "this product almost burned my house down" and then a plug that broke off in the wall or is half melted or something. It makes me too paranoid to buy any electronic on Amazon.
I always read the negative reviews. Those are the ones that are the real reviews. You get gold nuggets of truth on those. Dont waste time reading the positive ones
I know 100% some Amazon reviews are not necessarily "Fake" but definitely bought. I know because I have been either paid or given free products for reviews. Most products aren't cheap either, like $250 dehumidifier I have reviewed once turns out to be really good, and I got the product completely free. Not to say all product's I have received are bad, but they definitely help with the algorithm. With that being said, Amazon at least make it easy for returning products if you don't like it.
Sometimes I get gift code for review but if I don't like the product I don't do it. But there are items that are good but I'm lazy to review it but with a gift card I put my honest good review. But I can see how some people who really want money will post a good review even if they don't feel it. What I hate the most is company who adds a card for Amazon gift card for good review and they don't honor it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the "other" fake reviews. For example if I'm looking for a humidifier and it shows that this product was recently listed on Amazon, yet has 10,000 reviews is SUS! When you click on the humidifier reviews, the reviews were actually for a different product! I am not sure how to report this or if Amazon would even care.
The best way to navigate this nowadays is to learn by word of mouth. Talk to people on reddit about the product you specifically want and receive honest reviews from actual people.
It has some flaws like tit for tat rating (so I'll get negged if I neg a seller). You can also quickly inflate your rating by selling a lot of cheap digital items or cards. Fudging item feedback is hard though. Maybe you could buy your own item.
Many name brand products are outsourcing overseas manufacturers to make the products. I'm not trying to bad month anyone in other countries. The fact is that companies have to disclose all engineered structural blue print and trade secrets in order to get accepted by overseas manufactures (mainly from China). Once you get all naked, you are fully copied. That's why " Knockout brands" with cheaper prices are every where on Amazon and other retailers, like Walmart. People with budget would choose cheaper products. Name brand won't hold the quality and durability standards anymore as they are all made from same manufactures (aka OEM). So many American brands, Japanese brands, and European brands were self destroyed in past decades. The only winner is Jeff Bezos. He got so rich and he doesn't give a duck. 2nd winners are the wealthy middle class in China. No. 1 losers are the shrinking American middle class who looked up fake reviews to buy stuff online while poor class of course would by cheap knockout brands or fake products to get by.
You can get most of the products on Amazon elsewhere and often more cheaply with free delivery. I cancelled my Prime to save money and won’t be returning.
My biggest hatred towards amazon reviews is not the fake reviews, but rather the absolute ridiculously stupid number of reviews that do not match the product you are buying... This has become even worse lately, a lot of times now even when the reviewed product is listed correctly under the reviewers name, they will clearly state a completely different spec or model in their review. An example would be a review of a laptop that states the model number and specs like i5, 16GB...... then the reviewer will clearly list specs like i7, 32GB model.
Thank you for making this video. I’m an Amazon customer. I always read both positive and negative reviews. I’ve noticed that lately many of reviews don’t match the product. Also, I’ve tried to send two negative reviews because the product I bought was defective and they didn’t post it because it didn’t adhere to the “guidelines”.
Do you know if Amazon Japan is subject to the same manipulation? I find the product ratings and reviews from there are more trustworthy... just from my personal experience.
I did that with a theragun. 26k+ reviews at 4.4 stars. All the reviews are split 50-50. Half said 5 stars; not bad for price. Then the other half gave 1 star for broke machine after 2 uses. So bad. How can the review be 4.4 when it’s 50-50?
As a former Amazon seller, I promise you that any product with under 100 reviews is probably all BS and fake paid for reviews. 3/4 of all reviews are bought and paid for. Sellers are mostly all part of seller groups all buy eachothers products in return for leaving each other all 5 star reviews.
@@felixliao5801 under. Most sellers launch a product and get 50-100 reviews that they pay others to buy product and leave review. If you look at alot of products with 20 or so reviews alot of the time most reviews were with in a 2 week period
This has been going on for a while even before the pandemic I used to regularly get offered free products in return for reviews. A lot of amazon is cheaper elsewhere nowadays, mostly full of dropshippers and resellers, amazon used to have quality products, now its full of no-name cheap chinese brands at premium prices.
I remember when I bought a game controller for like $20, there was a little calling card inside saying I could get a $10 Amazon gift code if I left a 5 star review. Luckily the product was actually good and I was planning to put 5 stars anyway so yeah free money. Does make you skeptical about all the other reviews though.
This one I can tell touched u. Your passion speaks volumes. Your hands demonstrate this when u talk. Your sense of Justice kicks in. Thanks for caring 🙏
I check the reviews knowing a lot of them are fake. But you can still pick out some useful info from them also reading the reviews with pictures is great too.
5+ years ago I was in a community of people who sold ebooks on Amazon. I never did it, but it was totally normal practice for most ebook authors to pay someone in a 3rd world country to leave fake reviews for their book, to give it a big boost up the rankings when the book first launched. Except one guy got sued by Amazon so lots of people got scared and stopped.
The reviews ain't just fake, that would be a plus. But Amazon reviews are just ridiculous, where they be talking about products that have nothing to do with the one being advertised.
Noticed that one of these days, the review was for a completely different product. I had never seen that before and thought it was an error but this confirms just how terrible the situation has gotten.
Not like VitaCost, I wrote my review on their bad packing resulting in a broken fish sauce bottle. Glass fish sauce bottles were wrapped "loosy", even no tapes at all, in just one layer of brown papper....immagine dealing with broken glass and the clean up needed. They sent me an email to confirm if the review was actually ligid, from their customer. I confirmed and they sent me a 10% coupon that expire within a month and I have not seen my review on their website. VitaCost lost my trust after this and I will not be buying from VitaCost again. Amazon's customer services and management is still a lot more trust worthy than VitaCost. At least, Amazon leaves it true to how the reviews were wrtiten and posted and they are doing their best to control fake products or reviews. Amazon did sent me back my money once they found out that an item I bought was fake and I value Amazon for what Anaxon did.
You are 100% correct. I bought products with good reviews and the products didn't even work. When I tried to leave a bad review warning other customers Amazon wouldn't post my reviews. They labeled my reviews as inappropriate. So, Amazon allows fake reviews. Smh
fake bot review farm
The same thing has happened to me multiple times, they seem to only want positive reviews, they always find issue with negative reviews so they won’t get anymore reviews out of me.
BTB please we need another 'don't buy it you don't need it' before the holiday season
I agree
I complained to Amazon about a seller emailing me to remove a negetive review for an Amazon gift certificate worth 3 times the item worth. I got no reply. Two weeks later, the seller item is still up and running (with its 25k 5 stars reviews), and I keeping getting emails from the seller about removing my review... So now I am amending my review and trying to to post a screen shot of the email but unlike other reviews I posted, this one is never approved, never acknowledged, and totally ignored. The reason I was going through this is because I have close friends selling on Amazon that had their accounts closed for much less violations of Amazon rules. I think when you have a product that makes lots of money to Amazon, the rules are out the window
I usually focus on the negative reviews to look for potential problems. They tend to be the most useful anyways.
Those tend to be lies
@@trollgod7565 The negative ones tend to be the most accurate, you can just read to see what people say, of course. Positive ones are the most usually fake that say a product is "cool" or "hot" 🤪
Negative ones are fake too. Competitors will buy fake reviews for each other’s products to give them a bad review. I’m this because my friend’s product was hit by fake reviews from bots
@@eduardoosuna1995 You can usually spot the fakes because of the low specificity (or they demonstrate it's a user error instead of a bad product, sometimes). Most of the time there's something clear about a certain element of the product on the legitimate reviews that you can see is likely to be problematic by its nature.
I only do reviews on Amazon when I have an issue with a product and some are obviously sponsored. One time I bought a set of flooring knee pads and recieved a pair that were obviously used as the entire pad portion of the left knee pad was torn off so I posted a review about it and it was removed even though everything was true, accurate, and no foul language or anything.
you bought what?
I can back you up in your statements. We reviewed Amazon stuff, and if they were not satisfied with the reviews, they insisted you change it or be charged for the products you reviewed. It was a total scam, so we stopped as soon as they started that crap. They even wanted us to open new Amazon accounts to do a different review. They suck IMO and the reviews are worthless. DO NOT BELIEVE ANY OF THEIR REVIEWS!!
Great advice, As you said, I suspected this but didn't realise how extensive and systematised it was.
I leave a lot reviews for all types of products and services. One weird thing I notice sometimes is when sometimes they tell me to email them, which I assume is to offer some kind of bribe to make me post more positive reviews for them (or delete/edit my negative reviews).
I bought a jacket on Amazon and yesterday the seller called me, and then texted when I didn't answer to confirm what size I ordered. WTF I didn't know they were given my personal info. So sketchy.
jeff bezo is stalking you for free.
I bought several things from Amazon and some didn't arrive. I tried talking with Amazon reps to get it resolved. They were not helpful and they were rude, so I left a feedback on seller. When you submit a review, it is reviewed by Amazon instead of being automatically posted like it should be. I received an email saying that my review didn't meet their standard lol wow! Such garbage. Amazon is manipulative. I would rather buy from someone who wants genuine feedback and is about their customers.
I tried posting a poor review after the seller tried to bribe me into giving them a 5-star review, and Amazon took the review down. It is a remarkably scummy company, and they prioritize the profit of sellers over honest reviews about products and the tactics that companies use to dishonestly inflate their product reputations.
Best thing is to not buy from amazon.
I live in an apartment building, and absolutely hate how all the Amazon packages are left by the mailboxes, lobby, or even outside the building’s front door. They stopped delivering them to the apartment doors. Packages are being stolen now. I try hard not to buy from Amazon. 👎
Macys uses UPS, and they deliver to my apartment door. 🎉
amazon is actually an extremely difficult website to use if you have to get the rock bottom price on something. it takes so long using so many filters and weird search terms. youre totally correct on the pay for play thing theyre doing. i hate shopping on their website coz it takes me like 10-20 hours to finish a 200+$ order coz the longer i spend the lower the price keeps getting so i just dont have the best price yet so i cant check out. I cant just get ripped off you know? the adds with paid bot reviews have the same product from the same factory but have higher overhead costs so they will always be more expensive. what a kafkaesque nightmare of a jungle website.
I read all the bad reviews.
Sometimes it’s stupid people, sometimes it gives you an idea of the quality, and sometimes not.
But I think reading negative reviews helps.
Sometimes I just won’t buy it based on negative reviews, which helps my wallet.
I go to the negative reviews first. I have received too many products that simply don't live up to the reviews.
I can't lol. Every single electronic product has a 1 star review saying "this product almost burned my house down" and then a plug that broke off in the wall or is half melted or something. It makes me too paranoid to buy any electronic on Amazon.
Bingo!!!
Always read negative reviews!
people are paid to give negative reviews as well.
Very interesting, thank you for your content 😎
What should we about seller clearly buying fake reviews
I always read the negative reviews. Those are the ones that are the real reviews. You get gold nuggets of truth on those. Dont waste time reading the positive ones
If you just buy from Amazon and not 3rd party sellers, reviews should be genuine right?
I know 100% some Amazon reviews are not necessarily "Fake" but definitely bought. I know because I have been either paid or given free products for reviews. Most products aren't cheap either, like $250 dehumidifier I have reviewed once turns out to be really good, and I got the product completely free.
Not to say all product's I have received are bad, but they definitely help with the algorithm. With that being said, Amazon at least make it easy for returning products if you don't like it.
Sometimes I get gift code for review but if I don't like the product I don't do it. But there are items that are good but I'm lazy to review it but with a gift card I put my honest good review. But I can see how some people who really want money will post a good review even if they don't feel it. What I hate the most is company who adds a card for Amazon gift card for good review and they don't honor it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the "other" fake reviews. For example if I'm looking for a humidifier and it shows that this product was recently listed on Amazon, yet has 10,000 reviews is SUS! When you click on the humidifier reviews, the reviews were actually for a different product!
I am not sure how to report this or if Amazon would even care.
I’ve noticed that on several items.
Only about 1 out of 10 customers on Amazon actually leave reviews.
i only buy name brands. I don't bother with unknown stuff.
guys I am still trying to buy but couldnt do it. can someone help me
The best way to navigate this nowadays is to learn by word of mouth. Talk to people on reddit about the product you specifically want and receive honest reviews from actual people.
I bought from eBay much often than from Amazon. Is the "seller rating" in eBay reliable?
It seems a bit harder to game than Amazon reviews.
It has some flaws like tit for tat rating (so I'll get negged if I neg a seller). You can also quickly inflate your rating by selling a lot of cheap digital items or cards. Fudging item feedback is hard though. Maybe you could buy your own item.
Many name brand products are outsourcing overseas manufacturers to make the products.
I'm not trying to bad month anyone in other countries. The fact is that companies have to disclose all engineered structural blue print and trade secrets in order to get accepted by overseas manufactures (mainly from China).
Once you get all naked, you are fully copied. That's why " Knockout brands" with cheaper prices are every where on Amazon and other retailers, like Walmart. People with budget would choose cheaper products. Name brand won't hold the quality and durability standards anymore as they are all made from same manufactures (aka OEM).
So many American brands, Japanese brands, and European brands were self destroyed in past decades.
The only winner is Jeff Bezos. He got so rich and he doesn't give a duck. 2nd winners are the wealthy middle class in China.
No. 1 losers are the shrinking American middle class who looked up fake reviews to buy stuff online while poor class of course would by cheap knockout brands or fake products to get by.
Is Francis still holding DOGE?
Let's hope so.
You can get most of the products on Amazon elsewhere and often more cheaply with free delivery. I cancelled my Prime to save money and won’t be returning.
My biggest hatred towards amazon reviews is not the fake reviews, but rather the absolute ridiculously stupid number of reviews that do not match the product you are buying... This has become even worse lately, a lot of times now even when the reviewed product is listed correctly under the reviewers name, they will clearly state a completely different spec or model in their review. An example would be a review of a laptop that states the model number and specs like i5, 16GB...... then the reviewer will clearly list specs like i7, 32GB model.
Thank you for making this video. I’m an Amazon customer. I always read both positive and negative reviews. I’ve noticed that lately many of reviews don’t match the product. Also, I’ve tried to send two negative reviews because the product I bought was defective and they didn’t post it because it didn’t adhere to the “guidelines”.
The guideline might be positive reviews only! Lol
Love the Patagonia jacket on you. 🥰
shame on customers for engaging in this. do people have no dignity? is an aliexpress nightlight worth it?
Do you know if Amazon Japan is subject to the same manipulation? I find the product ratings and reviews from there are more trustworthy... just from my personal experience.
I did that with a theragun. 26k+ reviews at 4.4 stars. All the reviews are split 50-50. Half said 5 stars; not bad for price. Then the other half gave 1 star for broke machine after 2 uses. So bad. How can the review be 4.4 when it’s 50-50?
I figured out that Fulfilled By Amazon was a disaster for me ages ago, but I did not know why - thanks for this one
They can also delete any reviews they wish; I've had 4* reviews go missing.
On some websites the seller can report reviews for anything and it'll get removed. Facebook is the same.
As a former Amazon seller, I promise you that any product with under 100 reviews is probably all BS and fake paid for reviews. 3/4 of all reviews are bought and paid for. Sellers are mostly all part of seller groups all buy eachothers products in return for leaving each other all 5 star reviews.
You mean over 100 reviews?
@@felixliao5801 under. Most sellers launch a product and get 50-100 reviews that they pay others to buy product and leave review. If you look at alot of products with 20 or so reviews alot of the time most reviews were with in a 2 week period
@@hotdogs5265 ah okay
This has been going on for a while even before the pandemic I used to regularly get offered free products in return for reviews. A lot of amazon is cheaper elsewhere nowadays, mostly full of dropshippers and resellers, amazon used to have quality products, now its full of no-name cheap chinese brands at premium prices.
That's why I prefer aliexpress. May as well buy right from china and cut out the middle man.
I remember when I bought a game controller for like $20, there was a little calling card inside saying I could get a $10 Amazon gift code if I left a 5 star review. Luckily the product was actually good and I was planning to put 5 stars anyway so yeah free money. Does make you skeptical about all the other reviews though.
I bet Amazon does not allow a card asking for 5 star reviews like that. But they have so much volume no one will check.
What do you think about Fakespot?
This one I can tell touched u.
Your passion speaks volumes.
Your hands demonstrate this when u talk.
Your sense of Justice kicks in.
Thanks for caring 🙏
noticed that long time ago, never trust someone laugh evilly
if you look at old reviews sometimes you'll see a completely different product being reviewed. .. total scam and NO way to report it
I check the reviews knowing a lot of them are fake. But you can still pick out some useful info from them also reading the reviews with pictures is great too.
As a customer of Amazon for years I have never once write a review.
I never write reviews on Amazon either. I just buy the product and then I'm not really sure how I feel about it.
I thought that was common knowledge
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“Cool, he’s a book nerd like me,” what I thought when Amazon only sold books.
Wow. I was 100% wrong about Amazon & Bezos.
Do you know where we can get referred into these rebate clubs 👀
Wearing Patagucci today, better not go out and get mugged ;)
How to make it fair? Can we start a massive law suite?
5+ years ago I was in a community of people who sold ebooks on Amazon. I never did it, but it was totally normal practice for most ebook authors to pay someone in a 3rd world country to leave fake reviews for their book, to give it a big boost up the rankings when the book first launched. Except one guy got sued by Amazon so lots of people got scared and stopped.
Excellent video. Most reviews are garbage
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The whole Amazon market is over saturated. You don't know which Is a credible company anymore.
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I agree 100%
Thank you for exposing this.
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are your reviews real?!?!? :) :) lol
I see Doge Coin just shot up to 13 cents!
Now dogecoin freaking 13 cents
The reviews ain't just fake, that would be a plus. But Amazon reviews are just ridiculous, where they be talking about products that have nothing to do with the one being advertised.
Noticed that one of these days, the review was for a completely different product. I had never seen that before and thought it was an error but this confirms just how terrible the situation has gotten.
fakespot is very reliable in my experience. I've tested it on tons of stuff
Not like VitaCost, I wrote my review on their bad packing resulting in a broken fish sauce bottle. Glass fish sauce bottles were wrapped "loosy", even no tapes at all, in just one layer of brown papper....immagine dealing with broken glass and the clean up needed. They sent me an email to confirm if the review was actually ligid, from their customer. I confirmed and they sent me a 10% coupon that expire within a month and I have not seen my review on their website. VitaCost lost my trust after this and I will not be buying from VitaCost again. Amazon's customer services and management is still a lot more trust worthy than VitaCost. At least, Amazon leaves it true to how the reviews were wrtiten and posted and they are doing their best to control fake products or reviews. Amazon did sent me back my money once they found out that an item I bought was fake and I value Amazon for what Anaxon did.