This reminds me of how people will review recipes and say “5 stars - can’t wait to make this looks so good” or “2 stars - I changed everything about this and it turned out terrible”
Recipe reviews are a sucking, swirling vortext of weirdness and stupidity. I love when its the opposite, they give it 5 stars but then talk about changing everything. So its actually terrible?
I never trust recipe reviews lol. Found one like that for these chocolate cookies and made them and me and my boyfriend/his family all three up after taking a bite because the cookies literally tasted so salty it was ridiculous 😅
Man this is so true for literally every tech and internet service too.. 5 STARS "They were super helpful with taking my money and giving me a router, been using their service for 2 weeks now and it's great!". Yes Karen thank you for your 2 weeks worth of ownership experience. Truly 5 star warranting insight. Helped me a lot.
He missed looking at the Q&A section where the question says “Is this made from real leather?” And the answer is “I don’t have this chair, it could be. But I like the color.”
This reminds me of when my wife and I were looking at resorts for our honeymoon. A lot of the reviews left for the resorts were just people complaining about the airline as if the hotel owned the planes.
It's annoying, the only time it was accurate was a stainless table when everyone said it came damaged, with every single brand, so I took the risk with the best rated brand and it came damaged lol.
I left a 1 star review on a gaming chair. The company contacted me and offered me $50 to turn the 1 star review into 5 stars. I refused, took screenshots and told Amazon. Amazon deleted my 1 star review and banned me from writing reviews for accepting bribes. Thanks Amazon
Amazon makes money when people buy garbage products, why would they want to stop these scams? It’s not like you’re going to stop shopping on Amazon so they win either way.
You forgot the part afterwards where Amazon recognises you for the enormous chair enthusiast you are and fills your home page with new chairs for when you decide to treat yourself to another new chair to expand your chair collection
This is scary accurate. Amazon used to be amazing for online shopping...now it seems I spend more time asking "is this a bootleg product?" and the classic "is this bootleg product okay enough to justify not driving the damn store myself for the real deal?"
lol i buy most items on amazon, or at least online somewhere but amazon for cheaper smaller items, because my local stores the items are usually worse quality and twice the price.
Yeah it's so bad now! Amazon is turning into a dollar store, it's so hard to find a name brand product unless you're searching for the exact product you want. It's irritating as hell! I wish they had a "name brand" filter so I don't have to gamble on zxytzpp brand whatever the fuck.
Actually i hope that people will get so mad they will go back to real life shopping with someone actually knowing shit about the products he sells and ready to give you some advice. The whole itnernet shopping just shows how stupid and wrong capitalism is. Every single good idea and concept gets destroyed by capitalism. I personally only order online specific product that i already know very much about. If i want something and dont have knowledge about the product or industry i go to some local store and let advice me. I check the average price on the internet and if its not like +50 % in local store i will buy it right there as a thanks for the adivce.
@@TurboGroszek1 So the person running the local shop is... participating in something other than capitalism? I think you meant to say Monopolies ruin everything...
@@ryanyoung1052 No but capitalism looks for the best way possible which for product selling is the internet at this moment and it exploits the idea to the point where everything turns into shithole. The person having his own local shop is doing the healthy capitalism. Big giants are also big problem but it doesnt change the fact that the trend of many bad practices for online shops are not only made by these giants but by everyone.
One star. "This product is great. Will buy again!" 4 Star: "Took a star off because it was very uncomfortable and snapped in twain after a week. Otherwise seemed like a good chair." 2 Star: "I wish I bought blue instead of red. Comfortable, solid frame, and is still in good shape after several years of daily use."
I saw a 2 star recipe review that said something along the lines of "I haven't made it yet, but I'm giving a 5 star review because I know it will be 5 stars" There is so much wrong with that lol
This episode was terrible. My phone fell in the toilet last month and now it’s really hard to hear anything on the speaker. I only enjoy videos now that don’t really require you to know what is being said so this was really boring.
The questions about the product are also always like: "Does this product have this and that?" -"I don't know, product hasn't arrived yet." Was this answer helpful? Yes/no
I know, I see that all the time! My favorite is when the answer is "I don't know, I never bought this product" I always picture some wholesome old lady just earnestly trying to answer everyone's questions as honestly as she can
@@uhohhotdog Yeah, they finally added a button in the email for "I don't know the answer to this question" so that you don't answer a question with "I don't know" so Amazon doesn't stupidly think it's been answered. Clever but not sure on effectiveness
I also like the positive reviews that were clearly written for a different product, because Amazon has this handy feature that lets you change the entire product page and product category
Sometimes I think it is just because someone is that dumb because they'll have roughly 95% of the comments specifically referring to the correct product, then the rest are a couple people who are completely lost, and some which are too ambiguous to confirm or deny. Sometimes I see people answering in the Q&A section and not understand that everyone automatically gets an email notifying them of a question then proceeds to get mad that the questioner doesn't realize how the question doesn't apply to them and then asks why the hell they are the ones being asked. 🙃
@@jerrickmarques8777 I've seen that with people reviewing places on Google a few times, they said "I've never been there", and it looks dumb but Google asked them to rate it because they thought they had been there for some reason.
@@jerrickmarques8777Sometimes, yeah, but it happens too often to just be a coincidence. It's the sketchy overseas sellers deliberately changing the category & then updating the entire listing as a whole new product, so it looks like the new product has a ton of reviews.
@@Shuizid All truck drivers pee in bottles. A lot of US cities don't have public bathrooms. So unless you wanna go after UPS, Fed-ex, USPS as well you don't really have much of an argument against amazon. In fact, your argument is more against the big cities that don't have public bathrooms from the start.
@@Wylie288 While I happily go after all the mentioned companies and the horrible conditions delivery-personal has to work on -> I am not limiting my complaint to drivers, but also warehouse workers, who in fact have available restrooms around the corner but have to use bottles and diapers instead.
You just made me think back to the time when youtube had star ratings... Man everything was so much nicer back then. Not as high production value, but I didn't see any ads in the video, nor sponsors, I didn't get asked to like & subscribe, the dislike (or 1 start I guess) wasn't hidden, they didn't try to push a bunch of cooperate stuff or stuff for whatever group the current month was celebrating, they didn't force features I don't want (like that dumbass mini player)... Just miss the golden age of the internet before everything got cooperate, and algorithms started knowing me better than I do.
We get bullshit comments like that on our surveys at work, "Love shopping there! Greatest store ever!" - 3 stars. "Nobody can be perfect all the time" - 4 stars. "Shopping at your store has replaced God in my life, you are the best at everything forever!" - 1 star. BTW, those were all actual comments.
@@cujoedaman A while ago I was looking for a decent local plumbing company on Google, and one review gave 1 star and read: "Amazing work, very professional and skilled personnel. Would definitely recommend. EDIT: Sorry, I misclicked the star rating and don't know how to change it! Sorry!"
I literally went through this process when buying a computer chair. Ended up going to a box office store and tested them out and bought the floor model 😄
@@Badficwriter I bought a chair that had an upper weight limit of 140 kg. I weight 70 kg. I still broke it. Had to cannibalize my previous chair to fix it.
@@cenciende9401 Well, not everything. Furniture, cookware, hardware goods, watches, phones, clothes, shoes, books, exercise equipment, etc. All these things have examples in the store that you can see and touch for yourself. It's easier to judge quality that way for me.
You forgot, “Hey Amazon, can I just look at you least expensive chairs first?” “Sure, here is one replacement screw that goes to a very expensive chair. That’s what you’re looking for, right?”
This is so true, its impossible to scroll products in order of least price, as it will give you a hundred pages of spare parts of the thing you want to buy.
And its evil twin is when you're searching for a replacement part that you'd realistically never need more than 3 or 5 of and Amazon goes "You want 50? You want a pack of 50?"
Disclaimer: I was given a free version of this video to review, but honestly even if I hadn't I would pay for it! It has everything you need in a video - a moving image, sound, a beginning, and ending. I highly recommend it!
Amazon used to be a reliable place to find cheaper deals on things you could find in stores, but two things happened: 1) stores started checking Amazon to adjust their prices and 2) sellers started figuring out which stores did or didn't matter in terms of price competition so they could raise prices. It took me a year to notice that I was paying pretty much the same price as I'd get it as a Best Buy or Target or Home Depot. For obscure/niche products you often get waaaay better prices at specialty stores, but those stores are rare and infrequent and city folk rarely realize they exist.
Never mind specialty, i once asked my uncle for a common electronic circuit and he wanted me to find it online. Long story short, the online one available to him was over 10 times the price of the product. He doesnt know a electronics store where he lives.
@@youtubevanced4900 If it's something I only see myself buying once, maybe twice, then yes, the time and effort put into finding a local specialty store that may not even exist will not save enough money to match me earning money at my job, but if it's something I intend to purchase regularly, that time is an investment that will compound. Context.
Even rare art supplies like lightfast quality colored pencils I was able to get much cheaper, even with shipping, than in my country. But the store I bought from raised their prices recently, that sucks. Was no longer profitable for them.
Or people rate the product 5 Stars as soon as the package hits their doorstep: IT ARRIVED I AM SO HAPPY GONNA TRY IT TOMORROW - posted 6months ago ... - yep "helpful"
“Got this for my kid. They love it, but what the hell do they know, they’re 5 and are happy eating glue. Oh me? No, I personally have no idea whether the product is any good or not. You’re welcome.”
Prices differently to give you a false dichotomy. If you see a few 400$ chairs and then the same chair 300$, you’ll instinctively want to buy the 300$ chair because it’s such a good “deal”, but it’s just the actual product price on the company website
Shadow labelling(forgot the specific term). It’s usually the exact same product being peddled by different companies. It’s sorta annoying, since even Amazon does it and sometimes the products do look a bit different, but really are just the same. So you either find the original or find the best of the clones.
What I really hate about Amazon is how when you specify a name brand product they'll try and direct you to a low end knockoff instead, frequently with the actual counterfeit brand name much less visible than the name brand product it's "compatible" with. There's generally a reason why I'm specifying Stihl or Shimano or whatever brand it is that I'm willing to pay more for.
Actually they practice “mingling”. They “mingle” articles with the same SKU, whether they come from the official provider or from “resellers”. So if you buy a DELL screen, well, it could be a knock-off as long as the knockoff prints DELL on it and the same reference number. It’s probably illegal but no country wants to do a trial to Amazon.
It's gotten to the point that Amazon is greedy and companies with legit, in-demand products refuse to sell on there. So they try to suggest a cheap knock-off. I noticed this a few years ago and adjusted my purchasing behavior. Since you mentioned the cycling category, I was looking for a really high-end pair of cycling shorts a couple of years ago where quality was way more important than price, and I knew not to even bother looking on Amazon.
Fits a trend, I think. I have been using Google searches professionally for over 2 decades now, but to find an actual phrase exactly the way I entered it, despite putting it between double quotation marks, sometimes takes me 4 attempts: (1) entering it, getting the results for a suggested search that changes a word, (2) clicking "Search for instead", getting search results in a different language that would be auto-translated more or less to what I entered, (3) adding "site:XX" with the country code of the country in which the language of my search phrase is spoken, getting results for only URLs ending with .XX but for the same suggested search as the first time around, (4) clicking "Search for instead" AGAIN. And sometimes that yields HUNDREDS of web pages containing exactly what I was looking for, so it wasn't a matter of Google helping me because it knew I wouldn't find anything if it did what I wanted.
I searched the comments specifically for this because I see it all the time and don't understand why people do it. It is harmful to my faith in humanity.
Amazon will sometimes send a question to your email if you’ve recently bought a specific product to get answers to the FAQs. I think some people genuinely think that they’re being specifically asked as an individual and responding to the individual that asked, not having an answer posted in a FAQ section. Unfortunately, if you answer the questions, you get sent more, hence seeing the same sort of nonsense repeatedly. Bless them.
So questions asked about specific products, such as "does this fit a ____?", or "can I use this ball point pen to perform a tracheostomy?", what other answer can you give, bit "I don't know"? "Yeah, I used 3 pens for that purpose just last week; worked great, and my wife bought them for me!".
Nailed it. Fake companies bribe you into leaving 5 star reviews. That actually happened to me. I turned down the bribe and left the review as is. I value honesty over being paid off.
It doesn’t really matter. A company bribed me with a 1/3 back money coupon for a five star review and I gave it a four star just for that. I reported them to Amazon and told people to watch out for that. Year and a half later nothing was done and the company is still doing the same thing more than likely. So yeah, my advice is to just get that coupon or giveaway they’re giving you. Amazon clearly doesn’t give two shits and people don’t care as long as what they get work.
I bought a teapot on Amazon 2 years ago. There were multiple reviews in which people complained that it broke when they tried to boil water in it on the stove. This was a ceramic teapot. People were placing it on their stove full of water on high heat. There were multiple reviews complaining about this.
This is a real thing in USA, many households do not have electric kettles so when they say a "teapot" they are looking for the type that is used to boil water on the stove which whistles when done.
@@needsanameedit4982 lmao, bunch of backwards cavemen. I live in USA and use the electric kettle to boil water for my teapot, and brew loose leaf tea. I find coffee disgusting. I feel like a stranger here
Wonderful episode! Five stars! ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Disclaimer: this review was required as part of a promotional give away which provided the episode to me for free.
@@floydlooney6837 yeah if I'm not giving my credit card information face to face while saying it out loud to a person with Ryan George's face on them, then I'm not doing it at all. Damn untrustworthy technology.
Being an introvert does not mean you can't have a conversation in order to buy a product. It just means you are a more reflective person focused on your internal self. Even the most introverted person is still capable of social interaction and most likely enjoys it in moderation. If you can't even hold a simple transactional conversation without freaking out, then you have severe, crippling social anxiety and need help ASAP. Whereas being an introvert is just a personality type and not a disorder.
3:08 “cheap plastic it broke when I jumped on it” I actually could not control my laughter on that one lmao as someone whose worked in customer services I’ve got many complaints similar to outrageous reviews like that.
"That's Amazon's Choice, that one." "What does that mean?" "Aeeehh..." Every point hits in this one but for some reason that's the one that destroyed me.
It means "we got too many of this stuff and need to get rid of it". 😅 Doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad product but it also definitely doesn't mean it's the best.
I like "1 star. Was going to give it 5 stars but chair is made in china and they don't tell you!!!" Boyo if the pidgen english, AI-generated company name, and the references to Shenzhen don't clue you in I don't know how to help you.
I actually read this exact review for the mesh chair I currently have. It's an often on sale budget chair for $150 that isn't perfect but hasn't given me any problems even when my fatass is 20lb over the max rated capacity, and I've had it for like two years. Here is the review, paraphrased from my memory. "My grandson was jumping and being rough with this chair. He's a big boy, but I wouldn't have expected the leg to break like that! I can't believe how cheap this is." 1/5 stars
This one never gets old. And as for reviews, my (least) favorite is, "This looks great, and I'm looking forward to receiving it." Wow. Too bad there's not an Enthusiasm-Stars option.
For me, those are the ones he briefly mentions that rate the product poorly because of irrelevant factors like: "Delivered late", "Box was damaged", "Rude delivery driver", "My wife got hurt when I rolled over her toe with it" and such.
I’d like a Gaming chair Racing office chair high back computer desk chair pu leather chair executive and Ergonomic swivel chair with headrest and Lumbar Support, please. Thanks.
tbh I'd prefer a Gaming chair plain asylum chair high back with Vibration and Audio Function and cheap leather chair Cadcah economic swivel chair with Height Adjustment Desk Chair with Armrests, for Adults Teens Men Women (Red) actually.
I was just shopping for a pull up bar on Amazon and the top 5 star review was “I am very happy with this pull up bar. It is very stable and enough strong product. And easy assembling too.” -Christian J. Very not suspicious 👍🏻
“the 5 stars reviews are fake and the 1 star reviews are insane” I’m not an English Amazon user but it’s soooo accurate in my language too. There must be some universal problems there.
Sure, there's a problem. The thing they all have in common is that it's Amazon. People respond to incentives, and Amazon's incentives for reviews give us... this.
You forgot the end part: "Do you want to subscribe to Amazon Prime?" "No, thanks." "Well, I think you kind of do. Here it is, added to your cart with the first month free. You're welcome!"
If you live in a different country to where the specific Amazon site is based: Ok, I've signed up for Amazon Prime. So, can I watch tv shows? Nope. Can I get free postage? Nope. What can I get then? 10% off your postage and packing? Maybe? If we feel like it? Thanks, Amazon, I'll pass.
My favorite other thing is how they also sometimes just renew your Prime even if you told them to not renew. Always a fun surprise to wake up to less money than were expected to have.
Why wouldnt you use Prime? The few euros are easily recouped by the delivery fees, cloud provider costs and Netflix and/or DVD costs that I have saved here.
So damn true. One of the reasons I consider Amazon to be overvalued and they should urgently begin to give customers proper information and weed out rubish offers. Otherwise Amazon will soon be nothing but a global online platform for third party rubish sales.
Only missing the "5 stars, chair looks awesome, can't wait for it to get here" reviews. Overall, it's spot on. Fake reviews, people not comprehending the difference between rating the product and the vendor. At some point society might just have to accept that certain services should be placed behind a mandatory IQ test or at least a topic related quiz.
@@davidwuhrer6704 That's a start, then again someone who would write "good" as a review will also be asked, if they thought the review "Good product" was helpfull and they are probably gonne think it was.
@@davidwuhrer6704 The problem with that is that it's people who haven't bought/gotten the product who rates the reviews. A five star review stating that it's a good product might be very helpful or completely misleading.
Don't forget companies reusing listings for new items. All the reviews are real but for a similar but slightly different item. And there's no way to report this to Amazon unless you buy the item, even though it's obvious from just reading the page.
For those who don't know, gaming chairs are a total sham. They're designed after race car seats which serve a function vastly different to sitting in front of a desk. Race car seats are designed to center the driver and prevent movements what with all of the car vibrations and bumps. You actually need to move around and shift in your chair when you sit by a desk, to spread your legs or whatever is comfortable. When you put a race car seat on an office chair, you get very lousy results, and many people will report back pains soon after buying such a chair. Get yourself an office chair. Those were optimized for decades for the function of sitting in an office by a desk.
Sit in an office by a desk? OK, Boomer! That sounds super lame. I need a chair to sit in to play video games, so I can make really racist comments to my friends while we play for hours on end. I am so much cooler than you. Sitting in an office. No wonder you old people are always yelling at us to get off your lawn. Not that I have been outside to actually walk on anyone's lawn, I am too busy spending every minute inside playing video games, making racist comments to my friends. Boomer.
The whole gift card thing really frustrates me. I've brought this up to Amazon customer service before and they don't care. Vendors should not be allowed to offer gift cards in exchange for positive reviews. It's basically bribery.
I've seen it happen outside of Amazon too. One website I went to had reviews and you could count on one hand the ones that weren't a part of some sweepstakes or giveaway. Real scummy.
I bought this for my husband and he loves it is the most infuriating review. If you’ve ever bought running shoes online the website reviews are so annoying like 95+% of the reviews are either “I bought these for my husband and he loves them” or people who are just wearing the shoes around the house and have never run in their entire life.
I love the brand name "WaySus". Brilliantly thought up. Ryan has managed to create a name that sounds exactly like a genuine Amazon nothing brand while also incorporating some excellent wordplay. He is a true comedic genius.
@@RasmusVJS I believe, he's implying it's one guy with multiple wives that are equally... meh... at leaving reviews. Also, they're totally real people that eat food with their mouthes.
Fun fact: A lot of the racing style chairs that look the same are the same. They are even produced in the same warehouse and just have different coverings and logos on them.
And they all suck because racing seats were made for people inside moving vehicles so they would be safe and comfortable, not for sitting at a desk for hours. The fact that people added pillows to the chairs makes it even more obvious that the design sucks compared to a proper office chair that will often cost less and be way superior.
@@LuizAlexPhoenix Yeah, they're pretty bad. I have one sitting around barely used, despite having had it for about 5 years at this point (I should really throw it out...), because it's just so hard and uncomfortable. It's also badly weighted and you often feel like the whole thing is going to slip out from under you if you lean back just slightly too far. The pillows that come with it are about as hard as the chair and the neck pillow especially is needlessly fat so that it bends your neck forward at an uncomfortable angle rather than supporting it. 0/10 would not trust twitch steamers again.
You typed this comment 11 hours ago and only have 15 likes. For a channel with over 500 thousand subscribers that is embarrassing!!!! I bet when you typed your comment you were anticipating over a thousand likes. 😥 sad face.
same, always read the negative reviews and they always freak me out. But then if a product has no negative reviews I'm suspicious. I never had these issues shopping at Target. LOL. It's why lately I prefer real stores and actually seeing the product.
That's why I don't do it. That and the fact that shopping there is not compatible with my morals. (That sounded like a weird brag, but I think most people don't want underpaid workers to piss in a bottle just so their juicer arrives in time and for $6 less than with another service 🤷it's just that changing habits is hard)
"That's the same chair" "No no no, it's not, you're stupid" I've been looking for a new office chair all weekend and this is EXACTLY how I felt... still haven't found a chair
If you're still looking might I suggest Crandall Office? They do re-manufacturing of chairs like Steelcase Leap V2s and such. I got one about two years ago and would never go back to a "gaming" chair like my old dx racer.
When I need something new I search up what multiple people rate the best options and then look up those specific items and the websites they are sold. I got a really nice chair by using this method
I got one from IKEA a year or so ago. It's still great, but if I had the opportunity I would get one with a mesh seat. Foam is comfortable, but the case around it is such a pain to clean... Mine shrunk, so now I can't close the zipper
I spent ages looking and the end result seemed to be just go with the two popular Ikea ones (marcus and jarvfjallet). They were always the consistent recommendations across the world, and I'm pretty happy with the jarvfjallet a few months in. That being said there's way fewer options here in Australia, some other popular recommendations had to just be scratched off the list.
“This chair is great, multiple options, decent quality for the price and customer support even sent a replacement after I had issues with the lever” *One star*
I was recently searching for an office/gaming chair, so this one hit wayyyy too close to home The only thing missing is the question section, where someone asks "I'm tall and heavy, will this chair support me?" and the answers are "It's fine for me, I'm small with average weight" or just "don't know, I bought this as a gift for a friend"
I was in tears laughing at this; I've experienced all of that. And I ended up just going to a brick and morter store to get an office chair, because the online reviews just drove me insane.
I love the way you highlight the silly company names. What do these companies do? Throw scrabble letters in a bag and use whatever letters they draw in whatever order they draw them? I take it as a sign the company don't give a damn about their brand or their image.
It's a way for sketchy resellers to game the system. Getting access to the full suite of Amazon's seller tools requires registering a company with a unique name, so they just mash random letters together until they get a unique combination and use that. These "companies" don't care about their brand image because they don't make their own products and they're relying on SEO and fake reviews to sell things. They're just buying cheap wholesale crap from China and selling it at a huge markup
It's a chinese company. You'd probably do the same if you tried making a product for the Chinese market with no knowledge of Chinese language and lettering.
I recently had to buy a chair and I can't believe how Ryan got the entire experience accurate down to the T. I thought I was the only one going insane.
I dare you to find and compare high power LED lights on Amazon... ( Hint its a hell of a nightmare made out of fantasy values ( have seen one lamp with 3 different values printed on the photo - on the product and in the text.. )) - and we are only talking Watt here - imagine comparing different light brightness values .and tring to find specific infos on the LED Chips (lifetime) that are used... I cant even
@@dqmynator2.080 I know I often wish that there was a place you could go to and be able to see, touch and interact with these products prior to ordering and having them shipped to our homes. Maybe even have a live human who would be able to answer question we have.
He also missed the part when tons of reviews say "This screen protector is really great!" or "Really nice cheese grater!". You wonder how a chair would have reviews mentioning screen protectors or cheese graters? Well let me introduce to more scummy ways companies manage to have thousands of positive reviews to make the product look good at the first glance, without reading them...swapping out the product, title, description, literally everything about the product, so that the reviews stay!
@@beeroslava Technically no but they enforce it about as well as they enforce their anti-union efforts. Oh wait, all of their effort is spent with the latter to instead of the former. My b
Or fakes taking over brand merchandise, which I guess had been disbanded by the original manufacturer. Knives on a page that has link to official "visit Victorinox store" link arrive with Victoriniox name on them
Too true! Surprisingly, I reported one of these to their customer care and the next day all the irrelevant reviews were gone, not only from the one i reported but also other identical products under different names (it was a portable blender). I am not sure why they can't detect these themselves but it seems they are doing something about it when you report them.
I am laughing and cringing a little. This is so me whenever I'm trying to help my best friend check reviews. 😆 5 star reviews - Unhelpful 1 star reviews - I still haven't learned much "Let's check the middle ground...." I groaned. I've done that just 2 days ago. 🤣
I was honestly looking for a replacement office, gaming, lumbar support, 180 degree reclining chair, the beginning of this month, and after doing exactly what you did, I picked a product (well known Amazon brand). They ended up sending me a bookcase instead? Repaired my old trusty chair now.
In all seriousness though, the four-star reviews are the ones to pay attention to. You get the people who actually knew what they were looking for, knew how to use it properly, but had one small critique. Add the four star reviews together, and you can collect a pretty good picture of the product.
The negative reviews are definitely the most accurate. It drives me nuts how many people misuse the product or get a broken one that's likely not the fault of the company and then leave a review whining about it
Online you can't trust any of the reviews or products, all the conveniences are now inconvenient Offline, the store holds you and your purchases hostage until you get a store card. You could come into the store wearing a shirt that says "No, I don't want a f***in' store card", and they'll still hassle you.
As someone who shops Amazon A LOT, I loved this! You did miss one thing though: So many times when I go to the reviews, they aren't even about the item posted there. It's so frustrating.
@@benja_mint no, it's one the tactics shady sellers use to increase rating - they sell something simple and great, then they can change everything about the product and keep the reviews from the previous product.
The funny thing about those gaming chairs - and the reason why there's a billion of them - is that the margins on them are insane. There's basically a few companies in China that make them, and if you have the startup capital to order a large shipment of them, you can get whatever company logo you dream up rubberstamped on them and just start selling them on Amazon for a large profit per chair. Regardless of the brand, most of those chairs on Amazon are quite literally the same chair, with whatever color options and branding a given startup worked out with the manufacturer.
@@rottingcorpse6565 - Well...not really, though. There's a lot of duplicate Chinese product on Amazon, sure. Art supplies are another example, there are a TON of cheap watercolor palettes on Amazon that are literally all the same paint from a Chinese factory but different art supply companies pay to private label them. And then some legacy brands started having their cheaper lines of paint made in China and the Chinese stole the formula and now there are Chinese dupes of legacy brands that are literally the same formula but cheaper. But those gaming chairs are an interesting case in that they are priced WAY above what they are worth, and yet are so popular that people still buy them routinely.
@@bluesonicstreak7317 I bought one, worst thing I have spent money on in the last decade. Piece of shit broke in less than 2 months of sitting on it normally. Even if it didn't it was one of the least comfortable chairs I have ever had. I tell everyone not to buy them now.
I think this video is referenced in Helldivers 2. There are reviews for the armor you can buy and one of them is "I bought this product for my husband and he loves it."
Spot on with the infinite brand names that are unrecognizable. I get to thinking these could only be pseudo companies that all operate out of the same factory/warehouse in a far-off land.
They are often entrepreneurs who buy from a factory in china that will custom brand the product and ship it to Amazon. They might be American or Canadian. They have to come up with a unique name for their business which is tough these days.
A single company can own infinite brands. You don't need an individual company for each brand. They could all be from the same company, fielding several brand names at once to see which names perform the best.
i kid you not, a single factory make those,and make custom brand names as required, if you purchase enough units you can make your own Micheal Elilis 180 lombar suport gaming chair.
They are all Chinese imports that don't want to let the customer know that they are cheap Chinese imports, so they list as bizarre company names. I work for Amazon, and the vast majority of the shite they sell is made in China. They resist mentioning that on the listings wherever they can.
Man I have had to consciously train myself not to read reviews on Amazon. It's paralyzing when 8 reviews say this is the most amazing thing ever, reliable and sturdy, and the other 2 out of 10 reviews are "fell apart immediately, DO NOT BUY under any circumstances"
Keep in mind those could be competitors trying to force people to go buy their own product, so never believe an entirely negative 1-star review. Always glance in the 2-5 star range as well. In the 5 star range, ignore everything where the person gives no information about who wouldn't like the product, or what could be improved.
@@WynneL Tbh, that's a possibility... But I've personally never had a product with "falling apart" reviews that didn't fall apart. Example: I had a pair of headphones that broke on the upper hand, and when I checked the reviews I found a couple with images of it broken in the exact same place. Customer support got me a replacement, and it happened again a few months later in the exact same place. I got one more replacement, and months later (never having had the product for over 6 months) it breaks in the exact same place. Only this time support says that it doesn't count under warranty, because it's "physical damage." Even though it's clearly a factory defect.
Actually, it boggles your *mind*. Unless you *are* your mind, which makes sense, because the atoms and molecules which make up your body are continually swapped out for others as you eat and then also shed things. In which case, since your mind is in your brain, which is part of that molecule-swap deal, maybe you're just your collection of memories, hopes, fears, and dreams. But since the past and future are illusions your brain tricks you with to keep you eating and doing stuff, the present is all there is. But as your understanding of the present is a model fed to your brain in the form of electric impulses so that you can't experience anything directly without the model's mediation, why are you so concerned about other people's illusory memories of how their brain interpreted their model of a chair? Sit in one, and see what you think! If you actually exist.
@@jn651 If my reality is some sort of perfect simulacra then why differentiate at all other than striving for a sense of contentment? Which could arguably be better found in ignorance. (I like you, sad i didnt see this sooner). The potential phantasmagoria of my existence manifests in enjoyable moments at times, regardless of awareness of the minutia. Sometimes, i enjoy commenting on silly videos on youtube in silly ways.
Online shopping has really opened my eyes to the fact that IN THE ENTIRE WORLD there are only zero to four products being manufactured to fulfil any given need
Only true of consumer products. If you have a job to do that produces tangible output, there'll be 20 _categories_ of products vying for a role in your production pipeline, in exchange for a cut of the profits. For endless variety, either go into fashion or industrial manufacturing. :P
And this is why you should buy chairs (and tools and clothes and TVs and almost everything else) from a local store where you can not only see and feel them, but be pretty sure you're not buying something defective or damaged that someone else has returned and that's been shipped straight out to the next customer in line. If you haven't realized it yet, that's why they will only take your returned item "in the original packaging."
Same. And I use a screen-reader because I am blind. You think those word salad names are irritating for most people? I can't even skim past them the same way...
Well i'll give you another warning. Ebay is full of drop shippers that relist amazon products at a higher price then just have it shipped from amazon. Read seller reviews and be cautious of generic names like "a+ top deals", "bestdealzaround" etc.
My favorite one is when you read the 1 star reviews and people say it’s a great product. It makes me wonder if some people are confused what a 1 star review is for. Otherwise this video is 100% accurate and makes me think of my own experiences shopping on Amazon lol.
This usually happens when someone doesnt see the stars and just writes a review. Could be a first time reviewer, or just someone who didnt see the stars. This happens a lot when a website automatically sets the stars to 1 instead of making selecting an option required, or hides the option to select the star aspect of the rating behind a button, or some other poor ui design choice. Sometimes you can find websites where most people missed the strs and its just a bunch of glowing 1 star reviews.
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This reminds me of how people will review recipes and say “5 stars - can’t wait to make this looks so good” or “2 stars - I changed everything about this and it turned out terrible”
Recipe reviews are a sucking, swirling vortext of weirdness and stupidity. I love when its the opposite, they give it 5 stars but then talk about changing everything. So its actually terrible?
You may enjoy r/didnthaveeggs for that sort of amazing 2 star content
I never trust recipe reviews lol. Found one like that for these chocolate cookies and made them and me and my boyfriend/his family all three up after taking a bite because the cookies literally tasted so salty it was ridiculous 😅
@@Delihlah Did you maybe accidentally use salt in place of sugar? Can happen to anyone. :)
Man this is so true for literally every tech and internet service too..
5 STARS "They were super helpful with taking my money and giving me a router, been using their service for 2 weeks now and it's great!". Yes Karen thank you for your 2 weeks worth of ownership experience. Truly 5 star warranting insight. Helped me a lot.
you forgot the ones that say:
"Haven't received yet but looks great"
Or, "If I could give zero stars, I would!"
Like it the FAQs answer: I don’t know sorry.
@@nonyab5640 Yes! I love how people think that the question is literally coming to them as an individual and they would be rude not to give an answer
or "was delivered fast, but i havent opened yet 5 stars"
Or the ones that give one star and refer to a completely different product
He missed looking at the Q&A section where the question says “Is this made from real leather?” And the answer is “I don’t have this chair, it could be. But I like the color.”
Q: "What sort of leather is this made from?"
A: "Yes, it's real leather. It feels wonderful."
Absolutely!
Spot on!
People see the question in their emails and think it's like a DM and they're being asked directly by someone.
He also missed where they put US and EU in the brand title even though it is located in Xiungshungdung, CN
"I don't know. I bought this for my husband and he loves it."
This reminds me of when my wife and I were looking at resorts for our honeymoon. A lot of the reviews left for the resorts were just people complaining about the airline as if the hotel owned the planes.
A round of applause for Captain Sensible! I often wondered if like, common sense is in fact a super power….
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But, did she buy you that honeymoon trip, and did you love it?
It's annoying, the only time it was accurate was a stainless table when everyone said it came damaged, with every single brand, so I took the risk with the best rated brand and it came damaged lol.
It's the same on GrubHub and Doordash with people leaving a negative experience for a restaurant because of something the driver did
I left a 1 star review on a gaming chair. The company contacted me and offered me $50 to turn the 1 star review into 5 stars. I refused, took screenshots and told Amazon. Amazon deleted my 1 star review and banned me from writing reviews for accepting bribes. Thanks Amazon
must've been the AI. they're trying to eliminat the human element entirely
@@blue_sky_bright_sun7599 A website for AI by AI, right?
man, if you're going to get banned for it anyway, may as well accept the bribes I guess lol
Amazon makes money when people buy garbage products, why would they want to stop these scams? It’s not like you’re going to stop shopping on Amazon so they win either way.
Well obviously you're the problem. You're supposed to shut up and take the bribe so that Amazon keeps making money by selling WaySus brand crap!
You forgot the part afterwards where Amazon recognises you for the enormous chair enthusiast you are and fills your home page with new chairs for when you decide to treat yourself to another new chair to expand your chair collection
The ol "you have one, now do you need a lowkey HOARD of them?"
IKR!!! I just bought "x" and it's not an immediate consumable, not gonna buy another for years!
Bought a laptop and immediately Amazon recommended me another thousand of options that I could burn my money on, just in case that I hate money
Yes! This is fact!
I bought a Toilet Seat, 2 years ago. To this day Amazon spams me with "Here look at those other 158 Toilet Seats you would like!"
I love how chairs, doors, and cars all make almost the exact same noise when they break down in the Ryanverse.
Nah nah nah there are very clear differences for example a clank is much more serious than a clunk for a broken car but it’s the opposite for a truck
Next it’s going to be a leaky pipe and it’s still gonna make the same noise
One is more of a yipyipyipyipyipyipyip, and the other is more of a yip yip yip yip yip yip yip
Well cars have chairs and doors so maybe when you hear the car break down it was the car's chair and door breaking down.
No you see very big difference, some chairs say “ebibbibibi” while most cars say “oy-oy-oy-oy-oy”
This is scary accurate. Amazon used to be amazing for online shopping...now it seems I spend more time asking "is this a bootleg product?" and the classic "is this bootleg product okay enough to justify not driving the damn store myself for the real deal?"
lol i buy most items on amazon, or at least online somewhere but amazon for cheaper smaller items, because my local stores the items are usually worse quality and twice the price.
Yeah it's so bad now! Amazon is turning into a dollar store, it's so hard to find a name brand product unless you're searching for the exact product you want. It's irritating as hell! I wish they had a "name brand" filter so I don't have to gamble on zxytzpp brand whatever the fuck.
Actually i hope that people will get so mad they will go back to real life shopping with someone actually knowing shit about the products he sells and ready to give you some advice. The whole itnernet shopping just shows how stupid and wrong capitalism is. Every single good idea and concept gets destroyed by capitalism. I personally only order online specific product that i already know very much about. If i want something and dont have knowledge about the product or industry i go to some local store and let advice me. I check the average price on the internet and if its not like +50 % in local store i will buy it right there as a thanks for the adivce.
@@TurboGroszek1 So the person running the local shop is... participating in something other than capitalism? I think you meant to say Monopolies ruin everything...
@@ryanyoung1052 No but capitalism looks for the best way possible which for product selling is the internet at this moment and it exploits the idea to the point where everything turns into shithole. The person having his own local shop is doing the healthy capitalism. Big giants are also big problem but it doesnt change the fact that the trend of many bad practices for online shops are not only made by these giants but by everyone.
One star. "This product is great. Will buy again!"
4 Star: "Took a star off because it was very uncomfortable and snapped in twain after a week. Otherwise seemed like a good chair."
2 Star: "I wish I bought blue instead of red. Comfortable, solid frame, and is still in good shape after several years of daily use."
I saw a 2 star recipe review that said something along the lines of "I haven't made it yet, but I'm giving a 5 star review because I know it will be 5 stars"
There is so much wrong with that lol
Yeaah the guys who don't get the star system, rating 1 star but saying it's excellent
Reminds me of Steam reviews: long diatribe about why the game is bad- *Time Played: 400 hours*
Spot on
@@m_chupon5131 400 hours...newbs lol
This episode is great. My husband loves it. I haven't seen it yet, but it looks great. Will definitely watch again!!
lmao
I tried watching this video inside a oven, and it didn't even load. Plus my phone is all burnt up now.
It's a really bad episode.
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This episode was terrible. My phone fell in the toilet last month and now it’s really hard to hear anything on the speaker. I only enjoy videos now that don’t really require you to know what is being said so this was really boring.
The questions about the product are also always like:
"Does this product have this and that?"
-"I don't know, product hasn't arrived yet."
Was this answer helpful? Yes/no
I know, I see that all the time! My favorite is when the answer is "I don't know, I never bought this product"
I always picture some wholesome old lady just earnestly trying to answer everyone's questions as honestly as she can
@@deadsirius3531 that perspective makes me feel much better about seeing those "amswers" lmao
No
People acting like those questions are directed solely at them
@@uhohhotdog Yeah, they finally added a button in the email for "I don't know the answer to this question" so that you don't answer a question with "I don't know" so Amazon doesn't stupidly think it's been answered. Clever but not sure on effectiveness
I also like the positive reviews that were clearly written for a different product, because Amazon has this handy feature that lets you change the entire product page and product category
This reminds me of that one time when I was going to buy my fig jam again and the page was for soap bars. My review was all about the sweet taste 😅
@@IRosamelia
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Sometimes I think it is just because someone is that dumb because they'll have roughly 95% of the comments specifically referring to the correct product, then the rest are a couple people who are completely lost, and some which are too ambiguous to confirm or deny.
Sometimes I see people answering in the Q&A section and not understand that everyone automatically gets an email notifying them of a question then proceeds to get mad that the questioner doesn't realize how the question doesn't apply to them and then asks why the hell they are the ones being asked. 🙃
@@jerrickmarques8777 I've seen that with people reviewing places on Google a few times, they said "I've never been there", and it looks dumb but Google asked them to rate it because they thought they had been there for some reason.
@@jerrickmarques8777Sometimes, yeah, but it happens too often to just be a coincidence. It's the sketchy overseas sellers deliberately changing the category & then updating the entire listing as a whole new product, so it looks like the new product has a ton of reviews.
Just recently went through this, got way too frustrated and didn't buy a chair. Amazon has become a nightmare of cheap knockoffs and paid reviews.
That's not fair - it's also the company of people peeing into bottles while their CEO shoots penis-rockets into space.
@@Shuizid wha- LMAO
@@Shuizid All truck drivers pee in bottles. A lot of US cities don't have public bathrooms. So unless you wanna go after UPS, Fed-ex, USPS as well you don't really have much of an argument against amazon. In fact, your argument is more against the big cities that don't have public bathrooms from the start.
@@Wylie288 While I happily go after all the mentioned companies and the horrible conditions delivery-personal has to work on -> I am not limiting my complaint to drivers, but also warehouse workers, who in fact have available restrooms around the corner but have to use bottles and diapers instead.
Let's be honest it was always like this
5 Stars.
I showed this video to my husband and he loved it.
Ryan needs to find this one
Well played
You just made me think back to the time when youtube had star ratings... Man everything was so much nicer back then. Not as high production value, but I didn't see any ads in the video, nor sponsors, I didn't get asked to like & subscribe, the dislike (or 1 start I guess) wasn't hidden, they didn't try to push a bunch of cooperate stuff or stuff for whatever group the current month was celebrating, they didn't force features I don't want (like that dumbass mini player)...
Just miss the golden age of the internet before everything got cooperate, and algorithms started knowing me better than I do.
5 stars
i showed this comment to my husband and he loved it
@@iskuflame5967 5 stars
I showed this reply to my husband and he loved it
Even more confusing on amazon is when people say "This product was fantastic I couldnt possibly like it any more than I do" - 2 Stars
We get bullshit comments like that on our surveys at work, "Love shopping there! Greatest store ever!" - 3 stars. "Nobody can be perfect all the time" - 4 stars. "Shopping at your store has replaced God in my life, you are the best at everything forever!" - 1 star.
BTW, those were all actual comments.
i'd guess 2 possibilities, they misclicked/wrote in the wrong box. Or they were being sarcastic
@@cujoedaman A while ago I was looking for a decent local plumbing company on Google, and one review gave 1 star and read: "Amazing work, very professional and skilled personnel. Would definitely recommend. EDIT: Sorry, I misclicked the star rating and don't know how to change it! Sorry!"
I literally went through this process when buying a computer chair. Ended up going to a box office store and tested them out and bought the floor model 😄
Honestly, that's my plan. I rolled the dice once on a chair and exercise bike. Never again. Floor model or nothing
Ah, I researched heavy duty chairs that specifically guaranteed to hold fat people. Secret Lab. Expensive, but does its job.
Same. I then posted a review for the chair under its listing on Amazon.
i almost bought a couch on Amazon thank god i wised up and went to the brick and mortar store.
@@Badficwriter I bought a chair that had an upper weight limit of 140 kg.
I weight 70 kg.
I still broke it.
Had to cannibalize my previous chair to fix it.
"Roll the dice!" Perfectly encapsulates how I feel buying things online in general.
Even AirBnB. We put so much effort into choosing one and in the end it sucks half the time.
I mean kinda the same IRL TBH because everything is in a box anyway...
@@cenciende9401 Well, not everything. Furniture, cookware, hardware goods, watches, phones, clothes, shoes, books, exercise equipment, etc. All these things have examples in the store that you can see and touch for yourself. It's easier to judge quality that way for me.
true
at least I just could go in the store and - oh wait I don´t have the papers for that
@@stadthaus.7266 Are they doing that, now?! Ah, my condolences, dude. I live in Japan, so shots aren't mandatory here.
You forgot, “Hey Amazon, can I just look at you least expensive chairs first?”
“Sure, here is one replacement screw that goes to a very expensive chair. That’s what you’re looking for, right?”
"You wanted a mug that looks like a lazyboy?"
This is so true, its impossible to scroll products in order of least price, as it will give you a hundred pages of spare parts of the thing you want to buy.
I especially love that the number of results gets smaller when you sort by price
And its evil twin is when you're searching for a replacement part that you'd realistically never need more than 3 or 5 of and Amazon goes "You want 50? You want a pack of 50?"
Nowadays the "sort by ascending price" automatically revert back to "sort by popularity". I can't get it to work ever.
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5 stars. Great video, I decided
One star Found a dead body and it had a phone that was playing this video
Does your husband love it?
2 stars. I sent this to my husband and then he tried to kill me. Great jokes though, I like the part with the 2 star review.
Amazon used to be a reliable place to find cheaper deals on things you could find in stores, but two things happened: 1) stores started checking Amazon to adjust their prices and 2) sellers started figuring out which stores did or didn't matter in terms of price competition so they could raise prices.
It took me a year to notice that I was paying pretty much the same price as I'd get it as a Best Buy or Target or Home Depot. For obscure/niche products you often get waaaay better prices at specialty stores, but those stores are rare and infrequent and city folk rarely realize they exist.
Never mind specialty, i once asked my uncle for a common electronic circuit and he wanted me to find it online. Long story short, the online one available to him was over 10 times the price of the product. He doesnt know a electronics store where he lives.
Free shipping.
I don't have to waste hours wandering around.
@@youtubevanced4900 If it's something I only see myself buying once, maybe twice, then yes, the time and effort put into finding a local specialty store that may not even exist will not save enough money to match me earning money at my job, but if it's something I intend to purchase regularly, that time is an investment that will compound.
Context.
3: Amazon got flooded with cheap scammy Chinese products with a product page just good enough to look legit.
Even rare art supplies like lightfast quality colored pencils I was able to get much cheaper, even with shipping, than in my country. But the store I bought from raised their prices recently, that sucks. Was no longer profitable for them.
I like the Q&A part, where people constantly answer questions that they don't know the answers to.
Or people rate the product 5 Stars as soon as the package hits their doorstep:
IT ARRIVED I AM SO HAPPY GONNA TRY IT TOMORROW - posted 6months ago
... - yep "helpful"
I haven't read your comment, I was too busy playing video games. But I am here to answer your comment anyway.
Boomer.
“Got this for my kid. They love it, but what the hell do they know, they’re 5 and are happy eating glue.
Oh me? No, I personally have no idea whether the product is any good or not. You’re welcome.”
It's the new Yahoo Answers!
i love leaving off the wall answers to questions that are VERY clearly answered in products info.
I'll never get tired of the mirror Ryan George holds up to our society.
This is an underrated comment.
Good comment 5 stars
Well said. (just like Ryan George!)
@@Panurus_biarmicus this review gets 5 stars, very well said.
Preach the truth my man
It’s so true! Right down to the ludicrously named “companies” that are all peddling the same product priced differently for some reason.
Prices differently to give you a false dichotomy. If you see a few 400$ chairs and then the same chair 300$, you’ll instinctively want to buy the 300$ chair because it’s such a good “deal”, but it’s just the actual product price on the company website
They also have completely different reviews.
The true reason is: I decided.
Shadow labelling(forgot the specific term). It’s usually the exact same product being peddled by different companies. It’s sorta annoying, since even Amazon does it and sometimes the products do look a bit different, but really are just the same. So you either find the original or find the best of the clones.
One costs $29.99, the other costs $27.54 somehow and another one costs $33.00.
What I really hate about Amazon is how when you specify a name brand product they'll try and direct you to a low end knockoff instead, frequently with the actual counterfeit brand name much less visible than the name brand product it's "compatible" with. There's generally a reason why I'm specifying Stihl or Shimano or whatever brand it is that I'm willing to pay more for.
Actually they practice “mingling”. They “mingle” articles with the same SKU, whether they come from the official provider or from “resellers”. So if you buy a DELL screen, well, it could be a knock-off as long as the knockoff prints DELL on it and the same reference number.
It’s probably illegal but no country wants to do a trial to Amazon.
It's gotten to the point that Amazon is greedy and companies with legit, in-demand products refuse to sell on there. So they try to suggest a cheap knock-off. I noticed this a few years ago and adjusted my purchasing behavior. Since you mentioned the cycling category, I was looking for a really high-end pair of cycling shorts a couple of years ago where quality was way more important than price, and I knew not to even bother looking on Amazon.
This could be easily solved if they just let you sort the products by country of production.
Fits a trend, I think. I have been using Google searches professionally for over 2 decades now, but to find an actual phrase exactly the way I entered it, despite putting it between double quotation marks, sometimes takes me 4 attempts: (1) entering it, getting the results for a suggested search that changes a word, (2) clicking "Search for instead", getting search results in a different language that would be auto-translated more or less to what I entered, (3) adding "site:XX" with the country code of the country in which the language of my search phrase is spoken, getting results for only URLs ending with .XX but for the same suggested search as the first time around, (4) clicking "Search for instead" AGAIN.
And sometimes that yields HUNDREDS of web pages containing exactly what I was looking for, so it wasn't a matter of Google helping me because it knew I wouldn't find anything if it did what I wanted.
People who respond to questions on Amazon pages with "sorry I don't know" tickles and infuriates me in equal measure
I searched the comments specifically for this because I see it all the time and don't understand why people do it. It is harmful to my faith in humanity.
Amazon will sometimes send a question to your email if you’ve recently bought a specific product to get answers to the FAQs. I think some people genuinely think that they’re being specifically asked as an individual and responding to the individual that asked, not having an answer posted in a FAQ section. Unfortunately, if you answer the questions, you get sent more, hence seeing the same sort of nonsense repeatedly. Bless them.
@@jennv2948 Oh-h-h, now I see!
Sorry, I don't have an opinion about this.
So questions asked about specific products, such as "does this fit a ____?", or "can I use this ball point pen to perform a tracheostomy?", what other answer can you give, bit "I don't know"? "Yeah, I used 3 pens for that purpose just last week; worked great, and my wife bought them for me!".
"That's a lot of companies. I don't even know that many people."
I know that feeling.
Nailed it. Fake companies bribe you into leaving 5 star reviews. That actually happened to me. I turned down the bribe and left the review as is. I value honesty over being paid off.
One company bribed me with 3 of the product. I sold out. Im ashamed of my greed.
can't you get paid and delete the review afterwards?
@@Chrono_Mitsurugi And did they actually give you three of the product?
Yeah they offered me a gift card and I accepted it and then changed my review to include the fact that they're trying to bribe people.
It doesn’t really matter. A company bribed me with a 1/3 back money coupon for a five star review and I gave it a four star just for that. I reported them to Amazon and told people to watch out for that. Year and a half later nothing was done and the company is still doing the same thing more than likely.
So yeah, my advice is to just get that coupon or giveaway they’re giving you. Amazon clearly doesn’t give two shits and people don’t care as long as what they get work.
I bought a teapot on Amazon 2 years ago. There were multiple reviews in which people complained that it broke when they tried to boil water in it on the stove. This was a ceramic teapot. People were placing it on their stove full of water on high heat. There were multiple reviews complaining about this.
🙄 i don’t believe it. but, yeah, i do. 😬
The number of headset reviewers I've seen that bend and twist the headset and earcups to extremes "to test resilience" is too damn high.
oh dear lol teapot =/= tea kettle
This is a real thing in USA, many households do not have electric kettles so when they say a "teapot" they are looking for the type that is used to boil water on the stove which whistles when done.
@@needsanameedit4982 lmao, bunch of backwards cavemen. I live in USA and use the electric kettle to boil water for my teapot, and brew loose leaf tea. I find coffee disgusting. I feel like a stranger here
Wonderful episode! Five stars!
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Disclaimer: this review was required as part of a promotional give away which provided the episode to me for free.
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My uncle died while watching it. Great video though
Almost accurate, you're disclaimer should be complete denial. None of the reviews admit to being paid for them.
I watched this episode for my husband, and he loves it.
Episode broke when I jumped on it. Husband loves it though.
I would immediately trust any company called WaySus. They just sound honest as heck.
Oh man I didn't even catch that lol
@@erictopp7988 tbh I still see no issue here?
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not an english nativ speaker*
@@dqmynator2.080 "sus" is a new way to say "suspicious" since the game Among Us came out. So a company that is "way sus" is "very suspicious" lol
@@dqmynator2.080 And it sound like “Oasis” which is a legit chair company.
It also sounds like Asos
Using any website in the Ryanverse seems like a death sentence to introverts. Forced to have full conversations to do literally anything.
Not all introverts hate social interactions. In fact, most of us don't. Just in a limited amount and then need alone time to recharge.
Can't really trust that newfangled HTML
Somehow all Ryan's
@@floydlooney6837 yeah if I'm not giving my credit card information face to face while saying it out loud to a person with Ryan George's face on them, then I'm not doing it at all. Damn untrustworthy technology.
Being an introvert does not mean you can't have a conversation in order to buy a product. It just means you are a more reflective person focused on your internal self. Even the most introverted person is still capable of social interaction and most likely enjoys it in moderation.
If you can't even hold a simple transactional conversation without freaking out, then you have severe, crippling social anxiety and need help ASAP. Whereas being an introvert is just a personality type and not a disorder.
5 Stars... I let my husband watch this sketch and he liked it...
5 Stars... I let my husband watch this sketch and he liked it...
@@happyliving1922 I love the meme-ing
That doesn't sound like a real person.
1 Stars... My cousin died reading this, we found him 4 days later and it stank
@@anzeigefehler6495 Must have been the poop sock
3:08 “cheap plastic it broke when I jumped on it” I actually could not control my laughter on that one lmao as someone whose worked in customer services I’ve got many complaints similar to outrageous reviews like that.
Yeah that part got me too, because there is always some dumbass in the reviews who obviously used the product wrong lol
same
Back then we could jump on chairs and expect them to not break
@@aravindkm2012 tbf it shouldn’t break after a single jump
back in my day of 1998 BC we never worried about chairs breaking. Our stones were solid and lasted generations!
"That's Amazon's Choice, that one."
"What does that mean?"
"Aeeehh..."
Every point hits in this one but for some reason that's the one that destroyed me.
Couldn’t agree more 😂
It means "we got too many of this stuff and need to get rid of it". 😅
Doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad product but it also definitely doesn't mean it's the best.
@@sylverscale True, I've bought 3 Amazon Choice products and 2 worked pretty nicely, while the last only lasted 2 weeks.
I think the last amazons choice thing worked great, so I geuss it's hit and miss.
Yeah that Amazon Choice is pretty shady business. Literally saw it on game merchandise with reviews showing it's fake and including photo evidence.
Turns out shopping at Amazon isn't super easy and is an inconvenience :P
Is it because of the thousands of fly-by-night Chinese vendors who sell the left-overs from Alibaba on Amazon for great profit?
You'll end up rage-buying something just to get it over with and be allowed to leave 😛
"Waysus" is still one of my favorite Ryan George jokes
I’m an idiot. I missed that joke until you pointed it out…
@@thanatosironssame
They make good monitors. Great product ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The only thing missing from this is all the 'sponsored' items that have next to no connection to anything you searched for!
Like this video, which popped up when I was searching out a video on the Superman: Red Son storyline.
“Cheap plastic. Chair broke when I jumped on it.” just killed me.
The chair, too.
I like "1 star. Was going to give it 5 stars but chair is made in china and they don't tell you!!!"
Boyo if the pidgen english, AI-generated company name, and the references to Shenzhen don't clue you in I don't know how to help you.
You always have to wonder about the bad reviews. What did they do to destroy the product?
I bet it was a bad guy and he actually did a backflip on it to save the day.
I actually read this exact review for the mesh chair I currently have. It's an often on sale budget chair for $150 that isn't perfect but hasn't given me any problems even when my fatass is 20lb over the max rated capacity, and I've had it for like two years.
Here is the review, paraphrased from my memory.
"My grandson was jumping and being rough with this chair. He's a big boy, but I wouldn't have expected the leg to break like that! I can't believe how cheap this is." 1/5 stars
As someone who recently had to return a very bad gaming chair that was the exact same model 15,000 times on Amazon, yeah this checks out
I feel like there's a story behind this
@@renkyrie somebody died on it, took 4 days to find the body.
Gaming chairs in general are bad.
@@renkyrie they jumped on it
To be fair, I bought that product for my husband and he loves it.
This one never gets old. And as for reviews, my (least) favorite is, "This looks great, and I'm looking forward to receiving it." Wow. Too bad there's not an Enthusiasm-Stars option.
For me, those are the ones he briefly mentions that rate the product poorly because of irrelevant factors like: "Delivered late", "Box was damaged", "Rude delivery driver", "My wife got hurt when I rolled over her toe with it" and such.
The random sounds Ryan makes whenever something he owns is broken are literally the best thing ever😂😂
Remember the door? YIPYIPYIP
@@pepethunder that’s what my door sounds like, don’t see annnnnny issues
Oioioioioi
@@pepethunder Or the car? Oyoyoyoyoo
yeah...yesterday i was near my bed and it was "broken" so it went LILILIY!
can't tell if ryan added in the subtle wind effect to mimic the void of space you enter while shopping on amazon or not
hi there!
@@rubycraft673 no
I don’t know.. would be funny though 😂
I feel like I've bought something from both Floorgoo and Remplo.
Indeed this is true
I’d like a Gaming chair Racing office chair high back computer desk chair pu leather chair executive and Ergonomic swivel chair with headrest and Lumbar Support, please. Thanks.
tbh I'd prefer a Gaming chair plain asylum chair high back with Vibration and Audio Function and cheap leather chair Cadcah economic swivel chair with Height Adjustment Desk Chair with Armrests, for Adults Teens Men Women (Red) actually.
@@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084 i bought this product for my husband and he loves it.
I bought this product but its cheap plastic and doesn't support
My uncle died in it and it STANK
I bought this, and it arrived late, and customer service sucks, and it rained yesterday. 1 star!
I was just shopping for a pull up bar on Amazon and the top 5 star review was “I am very happy with this pull up bar. It is very stable and enough strong product. And easy assembling too.” -Christian J.
Very not suspicious 👍🏻
"I met my wife in this pull up bar. Highly recommended 5 Stars."
“the 5 stars reviews are fake and the 1 star reviews are insane”
I’m not an English Amazon user but it’s soooo accurate in my language too. There must be some universal problems there.
Italian Amazon is the same can confirm
@@riffrff I’m Japanese. It’s crazy how this happens regardless of language and culture.
I looked at google map reviews for apartments recently and was convinced I was going to be murdered anywhere within the state I moved to.
@@GnarledStaff It’s equally possible that they were telling the truth or just being paranoid. Maybe we should roll the dice
Sure, there's a problem. The thing they all have in common is that it's Amazon. People respond to incentives, and Amazon's incentives for reviews give us... this.
You forgot the end part:
"Do you want to subscribe to Amazon Prime?"
"No, thanks."
"Well, I think you kind of do. Here it is, added to your cart with the first month free. You're welcome!"
If you live in a different country to where the specific Amazon site is based:
Ok, I've signed up for Amazon Prime. So, can I watch tv shows?
Nope.
Can I get free postage?
Nope.
What can I get then?
10% off your postage and packing? Maybe? If we feel like it?
Thanks, Amazon, I'll pass.
My favorite other thing is how they also sometimes just renew your Prime even if you told them to not renew. Always a fun surprise to wake up to less money than were expected to have.
Why wouldnt you use Prime? The few euros are easily recouped by the delivery fees, cloud provider costs and Netflix and/or DVD costs that I have saved here.
@@gwenivercall It works for Austria and Germany. There is only an Amazon Germany. But Prime goodies still work for Austria
@@Marquis-Sade #sponseredbyamazonprime lol
I usually like your content but I'm gonna have to rate this 1 star because it hasn't loaded yet.
What?
@supreme fandom
yeah so it's this thing called a joke it super easy, barely an inconvenience to understand
@@detonatingcreeper6222 Don't have to be rude 😐
could be a shipping issue. 5 stars. My husband loved it.
@@flxffy_bxnzq It was another joke and a reference. So get way off his back about it
So damn true. One of the reasons I consider Amazon to be overvalued and they should urgently begin to give customers proper information and weed out rubish offers. Otherwise Amazon will soon be nothing but a global online platform for third party rubish sales.
Rubbish or Rubish
@@astroboy1093 it's pronounced rooo-bish.
It already is
Amazon makes money off of the cloud services, not the shopping part
it has become just another online flea market.
Only missing the "5 stars, chair looks awesome, can't wait for it to get here" reviews. Overall, it's spot on. Fake reviews, people not comprehending the difference between rating the product and the vendor. At some point society might just have to accept that certain services should be placed behind a mandatory IQ test or at least a topic related quiz.
Rate this review. Was it helpful?
@@davidwuhrer6704 That's a start, then again someone who would write "good" as a review will also be asked, if they thought the review "Good product" was helpfull and they are probably gonne think it was.
@@davidwuhrer6704 The problem with that is that it's people who haven't bought/gotten the product who rates the reviews.
A five star review stating that it's a good product might be very helpful or completely misleading.
@@volundrfrey896 Simple. You got to be able write a review ONLY after you receive the product (why would it be otherwise!?)
Don't forget companies reusing listings for new items. All the reviews are real but for a similar but slightly different item.
And there's no way to report this to Amazon unless you buy the item, even though it's obvious from just reading the page.
For those who don't know, gaming chairs are a total sham. They're designed after race car seats which serve a function vastly different to sitting in front of a desk. Race car seats are designed to center the driver and prevent movements what with all of the car vibrations and bumps. You actually need to move around and shift in your chair when you sit by a desk, to spread your legs or whatever is comfortable. When you put a race car seat on an office chair, you get very lousy results, and many people will report back pains soon after buying such a chair.
Get yourself an office chair. Those were optimized for decades for the function of sitting in an office by a desk.
Thank you for the review
5 Stars to this comment. I read this comment to my husband and he really liked it.
@@adeadgirl13 i see what you did there 😉😉
Sit in an office by a desk? OK, Boomer! That sounds super lame. I need a chair to sit in to play video games, so I can make really racist comments to my friends while we play for hours on end. I am so much cooler than you.
Sitting in an office. No wonder you old people are always yelling at us to get off your lawn. Not that I have been outside to actually walk on anyone's lawn, I am too busy spending every minute inside playing video games, making racist comments to my friends.
Boomer.
@@CigarDoug i honestly can't tell who you're roasting but it was funny and had a lot of attention to detail. five stars
The whole gift card thing really frustrates me. I've brought this up to Amazon customer service before and they don't care. Vendors should not be allowed to offer gift cards in exchange for positive reviews. It's basically bribery.
not just basically, it literally _is_ bribery
Fake reviews are stil good for amazon, so they have 0 incentive to do anything about it
of course they don't care. look who their CEO is
I've seen it happen outside of Amazon too. One website I went to had reviews and you could count on one hand the ones that weren't a part of some sweepstakes or giveaway. Real scummy.
@@Aeternum_Gaming As if anyone is going to remember to do that.
I bought this for my husband and he loves it is the most infuriating review. If you’ve ever bought running shoes online the website reviews are so annoying like 95+% of the reviews are either “I bought these for my husband and he loves them” or people who are just wearing the shoes around the house and have never run in their entire life.
Ofc whoever u bought those for wont tell you how horrible your gift is…
its so annoying too bc those reviews have hundreds of likes, but the actual helpful ones are no where to be seen
Honestly I’m so used to the long name on Amazon that if I see a product that just “Black Chair” that’s a scam, even if it’s not yes it is
Five stars.
I bought this as a gift and haven’t opened the box but my daughter loves chairs and she’ll probably love this one
As much as I love the whole video the chair going "Hebebebe"" several times as a sign that it's failing is hilarious beyond belief
Look up the clip by louis ck called "The Way We Talk (Hilarious)" it's about using the word hilarious and you definitely need to hear it.
@@510tuber sounding a lot like one of those Amazon reviews.
@@AdamLMore i got a Louis CK dvd for my husband and he loves it
@@Info-eh4tv What kind of leather is it made from?
It’s Ryan’s favorite sound effect. I’m pretty sure that’s what it sounds like when his car is failing.
I love the brand name "WaySus". Brilliantly thought up. Ryan has managed to create a name that sounds exactly like a genuine Amazon nothing brand while also incorporating some excellent wordplay. He is a true comedic genius.
that husband do be having a lot of gifts, what a loving, wholesome, REAL, and rich wife😊
Are you implying that it is the same wife who left all those reviews? :D
@@RasmusVJS I believe, he's implying it's one guy with multiple wives that are equally... meh... at leaving reviews. Also, they're totally real people that eat food with their mouthes.
Fun fact: A lot of the racing style chairs that look the same are the same. They are even produced in the same warehouse and just have different coverings and logos on them.
That's the case for tons of products, including food
And they all suck because racing seats were made for people inside moving vehicles so they would be safe and comfortable, not for sitting at a desk for hours. The fact that people added pillows to the chairs makes it even more obvious that the design sucks compared to a proper office chair that will often cost less and be way superior.
Basically white labeling or private labeling.
@@LuizAlexPhoenix Oh yeah, they're not comfortable at all. The few times I tried one, I felt trapped lol
@@LuizAlexPhoenix Yeah, they're pretty bad. I have one sitting around barely used, despite having had it for about 5 years at this point (I should really throw it out...), because it's just so hard and uncomfortable. It's also badly weighted and you often feel like the whole thing is going to slip out from under you if you lean back just slightly too far. The pillows that come with it are about as hard as the chair and the neck pillow especially is needlessly fat so that it bends your neck forward at an uncomfortable angle rather than supporting it.
0/10 would not trust twitch steamers again.
Hello, it's me, the Adstronaut. I bought this space suit for my husband and he loves it.
I just love that "ibibibibi" is the noise broken things make in the Ryanverse.
i know that *”huebebebe”* anywhere.
time to get your car checked.
You typed this comment 11 hours ago and only have 15 likes. For a channel with over 500 thousand subscribers that is embarrassing!!!! I bet when you typed your comment you were anticipating over a thousand likes. 😥 sad face.
Nah that's more of an *Oyoyoyoyo* noise, it's a common mistake. Not to be confused with a *Yipyipyipyipyipyip* noise
@@kendromeda42 I thought it was more like heybeybeybeybey
@@samyakjainjss I still have several RUclips videos in my feed that assure me that noise is my door.... still
@@samyakjainjss ALL THE GIRLS SAY, GIRLS SAY!
So accurate. Unless you have a specific product in mind and the manufacturer, finding it on Amazon is a nightmare.
This is so ridiculously accurate. It takes me entirely too long to buy anything off Amazon and I feel scared and uncomfortable the entire time
Same! I miss brick and mortar stores for clothing for this exact reason. You can’t try it on so deciding if it’s worth a shot takes so long!
@@courtney-ray i mean... Just go to a physical store, they do still exist 🤨
@@courtney-ray The SOP is to order everything that might fit, then send back what doesn't. Same as you would in a store, except with postal delivery.
same, always read the negative reviews and they always freak me out. But then if a product has no negative reviews I'm suspicious. I never had these issues shopping at Target. LOL. It's why lately I prefer real stores and actually seeing the product.
That's why I don't do it. That and the fact that shopping there is not compatible with my morals.
(That sounded like a weird brag, but I think most people don't want underpaid workers to piss in a bottle just so their juicer arrives in time and for $6 less than with another service 🤷it's just that changing habits is hard)
While I like Ryan’s humor, I’m more impressed with how creatively he conveys truths.
Ooh! I'm a narcoleptic silver tabby. Nice to see you!
@@morebirdsandroses1 star. This cat stopped breathing when I jumped on it
"That's the same chair"
"No no no, it's not, you're stupid"
I've been looking for a new office chair all weekend and this is EXACTLY how I felt... still haven't found a chair
If you're still looking might I suggest Crandall Office? They do re-manufacturing of chairs like Steelcase Leap V2s and such. I got one about two years ago and would never go back to a "gaming" chair like my old dx racer.
When I need something new I search up what multiple people rate the best options and then look up those specific items and the websites they are sold. I got a really nice chair by using this method
Just, like, go to an office depot, find the chairs and test them out. easy
I got one from IKEA a year or so ago.
It's still great, but if I had the opportunity I would get one with a mesh seat.
Foam is comfortable, but the case around it is such a pain to clean...
Mine shrunk, so now I can't close the zipper
I spent ages looking and the end result seemed to be just go with the two popular Ikea ones (marcus and jarvfjallet). They were always the consistent recommendations across the world, and I'm pretty happy with the jarvfjallet a few months in. That being said there's way fewer options here in Australia, some other popular recommendations had to just be scratched off the list.
I was actually expecting him to try to buy the chair only for Amazon to tell him it's sold out lol everything else spot on and hilarious as always!
Usually Amazon is pretty good at not suggesting you sold out things, but that's me, maybe Amazon just likes to suggest you sold out things.
@@RGC_animation i honestly think amazon takes pleasure in suggesting me sold out stuff
he didn't get the reviewer who takes a ton of photos and video of the product
@@legendaryvicius I've literally never encountered this in over nine years of buying hundreds of things off Amazon.
i laughed harder at this than any of Ryan's others, and I really like Ryan. This is EXACTLY what shopping on amazon is like!
Our cutouts are on Amazon 😂
Amazon is useful IF you already knew exactly WHAT you want to buy and you only wanna find a source.
The best (/only good) kind of reviews is IRL conversations 👀
stop shopping with abusive companies
Also any app on an app store.
Absolutely spot on.. especially the procedure of searching, checking reviews and being confused anyway 😄
Sometimes I feel like even stores selling the same stuff under different fantasy names, like refrigerator SAMSUNG KG147...
“This chair is great, multiple options, decent quality for the price and customer support even sent a replacement after I had issues with the lever”
*One star*
I'm sure they're doing it by golf rules. Lower score is better.
I hate the pure dumbasses who do shit like this, 'great product, loved it' on a 3 star review. F****** idiots.
🤣🤣🤣
@@cenciende9401 We wouldn't believe them on a 5 star review because it seems Sus.
I was recently searching for an office/gaming chair, so this one hit wayyyy too close to home
The only thing missing is the question section, where someone asks "I'm tall and heavy, will this chair support me?" and the answers are "It's fine for me, I'm small with average weight" or just "don't know, I bought this as a gift for a friend"
Don't buy gaming chairs. Lower quality and much more expensive than decent office chairs. Like everything with gamer in name.
Or, "I don't own this, so I don't know." 😬
I was in tears laughing at this; I've experienced all of that. And I ended up just going to a brick and morter store to get an office chair, because the online reviews just drove me insane.
Totally! I got so pissed off with it, just went to staples, sat in a chair, liked it and bought that! Amazon actually drove me away 😂😂😂
barbentron 😂
Well, your name is crazylady so that backs up your story.
There are some things you should NEVER buy online - like shoes, chairs, guitars, etc.
Yup, same. Bought my chair at staples and was so happy I saved hours of time wasted on Amazon reviews!!
I love the way you highlight the silly company names. What do these companies do? Throw scrabble letters in a bag and use whatever letters they draw in whatever order they draw them? I take it as a sign the company don't give a damn about their brand or their image.
It's a way for sketchy resellers to game the system. Getting access to the full suite of Amazon's seller tools requires registering a company with a unique name, so they just mash random letters together until they get a unique combination and use that. These "companies" don't care about their brand image because they don't make their own products and they're relying on SEO and fake reviews to sell things. They're just buying cheap wholesale crap from China and selling it at a huge markup
Well when all you're doing is reselling a white-label product, why would you care?
@@TheQuark6789 It was an observation, not an indication that I care.
It's a chinese company. You'd probably do the same if you tried making a product for the Chinese market with no knowledge of Chinese language and lettering.
@@cattysplat No, I wouldn't. I'd hire someone who had that knowledge.
I recently had to buy a chair and I can't believe how Ryan got the entire experience accurate down to the T. I thought I was the only one going insane.
I think he wrote this after trying to buy a chair.
Also think he made his final purchase through Craig's List.
I dare you to find and compare high power LED lights on Amazon...
( Hint its a hell of a nightmare made out of fantasy values ( have seen one lamp with 3 different values printed on the photo - on the product and in the text.. )) - and we are only talking Watt here - imagine comparing different light brightness values .and tring to find specific infos on the LED Chips (lifetime) that are used... I cant even
what are you talking about? i showed amazon to my husband and he loves it
@@dqmynator2.080 I know I often wish that there was a place you could go to and be able to see, touch and interact with these products prior to ordering and having them shipped to our homes. Maybe even have a live human who would be able to answer question we have.
@@conniethesconnie nice
He also missed the part when tons of reviews say "This screen protector is really great!" or "Really nice cheese grater!". You wonder how a chair would have reviews mentioning screen protectors or cheese graters? Well let me introduce to more scummy ways companies manage to have thousands of positive reviews to make the product look good at the first glance, without reading them...swapping out the product, title, description, literally everything about the product, so that the reviews stay!
Waait, does Amazon allow this?! I've seen this and I always wondered why the hell am I reading a review of a bed when buying an eye shadow palette.
@@beeroslava Technically no but they enforce it about as well as they enforce their anti-union efforts.
Oh wait, all of their effort is spent with the latter to instead of the former. My b
Or fakes taking over brand merchandise, which I guess had been disbanded by the original manufacturer. Knives on a page that has link to official "visit Victorinox store" link arrive with Victoriniox name on them
Too true! Surprisingly, I reported one of these to their customer care and the next day all the irrelevant reviews were gone, not only from the one i reported but also other identical products under different names (it was a portable blender). I am not sure why they can't detect these themselves but it seems they are doing something about it when you report them.
If you think that’s bad, look up “banana slicer” sometime. Note: if you do order one, make sure you specify right hand or left hand banana slicer.
I am laughing and cringing a little.
This is so me whenever I'm trying to help my best friend check reviews. 😆
5 star reviews - Unhelpful
1 star reviews - I still haven't learned much
"Let's check the middle ground...." I groaned. I've done that just 2 days ago. 🤣
The "1-star package arrived damaged" drives me nuts.
I also hate 5-star reviews that are about how terrible the product is.
@@bryan.d0616 Grandma stop leaving reviews please.
I was honestly looking for a replacement office, gaming, lumbar support, 180 degree reclining chair, the beginning of this month, and after doing exactly what you did, I picked a product (well known Amazon brand). They ended up sending me a bookcase instead?
Repaired my old trusty chair now.
In all seriousness though, the four-star reviews are the ones to pay attention to. You get the people who actually knew what they were looking for, knew how to use it properly, but had one small critique. Add the four star reviews together, and you can collect a pretty good picture of the product.
I also pay attention to the 3 stars reviews. 4 stars are often overly positive and don't name major issues. F* the 6 and 1 stars reviews, though. :D
This is a great assessment. My husband loves it!
As someone who works at Amazon I find this hilarious. Never trust Amazon's choice
I own Amazon, I verify this comment.
I own the Internet. I approve these two comments.
I own these 3 people. Don't trust their comments, they just want attention.
_he was later found tied up in a Amazon sweat shop_
I own comments. I can confirm this.
Hit the nail on the head! I hate shopping on Amazon, it just sucks your time and energy. I always get a headache and give up before buying anything!
Right? It was supposed to save us time 🤦🏽♂️
The negative reviews are definitely the most accurate. It drives me nuts how many people misuse the product or get a broken one that's likely not the fault of the company and then leave a review whining about it
3 Stars is gold - everything else is just meh
The cautious deflection when it came to "Amazon's Choice" was quite noticeable.
I loved that so much.
Man when you said “the chair broke when I jumped on it” I couldn’t stop laughing.
Two stars the laptop worked great until I spilt my coffee on it now it will not turn on!
2015: "Why would anyone go to a brick and mortar store"
2022: "Why would anyone buy online"
Accurate anymore with much you can get scammed outta your money anymore.
Online you can't trust any of the reviews or products, all the conveniences are now inconvenient
Offline, the store holds you and your purchases hostage until you get a store card. You could come into the store wearing a shirt that says "No, I don't want a f***in' store card", and they'll still hassle you.
And they both suck
@@MegaManXPoweredUp not to mention if u want to put your reviews thats honest and say bad stuff about the company. u cant even keep it there lol
so true lmao
We are slowly learning that Frederick Noisemaker wasn’t doing random noises, but was actually accurately imitating real world objects
As someone who shops Amazon A LOT, I loved this! You did miss one thing though: So many times when I go to the reviews, they aren't even about the item posted there. It's so frustrating.
my theory is that people get confused because on ebay you rate the seller, and on amazon you rate the product
@@benja_mint no, it's one the tactics shady sellers use to increase rating - they sell something simple and great, then they can change everything about the product and keep the reviews from the previous product.
I know, right? The guy's dog clearly buried the can of tuna where the tiger would find it!
@@screwdriver1337 ohhh... i misread the original comment. but also i didnt know about this shady tactic so i learned something new :)
Yeah they are scamming fucks.
The funny thing about those gaming chairs - and the reason why there's a billion of them - is that the margins on them are insane. There's basically a few companies in China that make them, and if you have the startup capital to order a large shipment of them, you can get whatever company logo you dream up rubberstamped on them and just start selling them on Amazon for a large profit per chair. Regardless of the brand, most of those chairs on Amazon are quite literally the same chair, with whatever color options and branding a given startup worked out with the manufacturer.
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Now apply this to basically every product on Amazon.
1 Star for this review. My cat farted while I was reading it, and it really stank!
@@rottingcorpse6565 - Well...not really, though. There's a lot of duplicate Chinese product on Amazon, sure. Art supplies are another example, there are a TON of cheap watercolor palettes on Amazon that are literally all the same paint from a Chinese factory but different art supply companies pay to private label them. And then some legacy brands started having their cheaper lines of paint made in China and the Chinese stole the formula and now there are Chinese dupes of legacy brands that are literally the same formula but cheaper.
But those gaming chairs are an interesting case in that they are priced WAY above what they are worth, and yet are so popular that people still buy them routinely.
@@bluesonicstreak7317 I bought one, worst thing I have spent money on in the last decade. Piece of shit broke in less than 2 months of sitting on it normally. Even if it didn't it was one of the least comfortable chairs I have ever had.
I tell everyone not to buy them now.
I think this video is referenced in Helldivers 2. There are reviews for the armor you can buy and one of them is "I bought this product for my husband and he loves it."
Spot on with the infinite brand names that are unrecognizable. I get to thinking these could only be pseudo companies that all operate out of the same factory/warehouse in a far-off land.
They are often entrepreneurs who buy from a factory in china that will custom brand the product and ship it to Amazon. They might be American or Canadian. They have to come up with a unique name for their business which is tough these days.
A single company can own infinite brands. You don't need an individual company for each brand. They could all be from the same company, fielding several brand names at once to see which names perform the best.
i kid you not, a single factory make those,and make custom brand names as required, if you purchase enough units you can make your own Micheal Elilis 180 lombar suport gaming chair.
They are all real companies who source from the same factory
They are all Chinese imports that don't want to let the customer know that they are cheap Chinese imports, so they list as bizarre company names.
I work for Amazon, and the vast majority of the shite they sell is made in China. They resist mentioning that on the listings wherever they can.
Man I have had to consciously train myself not to read reviews on Amazon. It's paralyzing when 8 reviews say this is the most amazing thing ever, reliable and sturdy, and the other 2 out of 10 reviews are "fell apart immediately, DO NOT BUY under any circumstances"
Keep in mind those could be competitors trying to force people to go buy their own product, so never believe an entirely negative 1-star review. Always glance in the 2-5 star range as well. In the 5 star range, ignore everything where the person gives no information about who wouldn't like the product, or what could be improved.
@@WynneL
Tbh, that's a possibility... But I've personally never had a product with "falling apart" reviews that didn't fall apart.
Example: I had a pair of headphones that broke on the upper hand, and when I checked the reviews I found a couple with images of it broken in the exact same place.
Customer support got me a replacement, and it happened again a few months later in the exact same place.
I got one more replacement, and months later (never having had the product for over 6 months) it breaks in the exact same place.
Only this time support says that it doesn't count under warranty, because it's "physical damage." Even though it's clearly a factory defect.
This was so weirdly relatable as I have just been trying to buy as chair and standing desk on amazon, I feel like Ryan has been in my brain!
To sort the reviews, Fake Spot.
I died at the WaySus brand
"Waysus" cause we got what (you think) you need...
Shopping for anything specific on Amazon is an absolute nightmare. This is so accurate
Dont forget the classic review: "This chair looks amazing, keen to test it when it arrives..... 5 stars" I see it all the time and it boggles me.
Actually, it boggles your *mind*. Unless you *are* your mind, which makes sense, because the atoms and molecules which make up your body are continually swapped out for others as you eat and then also shed things. In which case, since your mind is in your brain, which is part of that molecule-swap deal, maybe you're just your collection of memories, hopes, fears, and dreams. But since the past and future are illusions your brain tricks you with to keep you eating and doing stuff, the present is all there is. But as your understanding of the present is a model fed to your brain in the form of electric impulses so that you can't experience anything directly without the model's mediation, why are you so concerned about other people's illusory memories of how their brain interpreted their model of a chair? Sit in one, and see what you think! If you actually exist.
@@jn651 You're kinda blowing my mind a little bit here, but how about we default to my perspective?
@@jn651 you tried so hard...
@@jn651 If my reality is some sort of perfect simulacra then why differentiate at all other than striving for a sense of contentment? Which could arguably be better found in ignorance. (I like you, sad i didnt see this sooner). The potential phantasmagoria of my existence manifests in enjoyable moments at times, regardless of awareness of the minutia. Sometimes, i enjoy commenting on silly videos on youtube in silly ways.
Online shopping has really opened my eyes to the fact that
IN THE ENTIRE WORLD
there are only zero to four products being manufactured to fulfil any given need
Only true of consumer products. If you have a job to do that produces tangible output, there'll be 20 _categories_ of products vying for a role in your production pipeline, in exchange for a cut of the profits. For endless variety, either go into fashion or industrial manufacturing. :P
“That one has a back story…kind of”. That did make me laugh
And this is why you should buy chairs (and tools and clothes and TVs and almost everything else) from a local store where you can not only see and feel them, but be pretty sure you're not buying something defective or damaged that someone else has returned and that's been shipped straight out to the next customer in line. If you haven't realized it yet, that's why they will only take your returned item "in the original packaging."
OMG this is so accurate! Especially the repeated items for sale with different names, reason I have been shopping less and less from amazon
Same. And I use a screen-reader because I am blind. You think those word salad names are irritating for most people? I can't even skim past them the same way...
Well i'll give you another warning. Ebay is full of drop shippers that relist amazon products at a higher price then just have it shipped from amazon. Read seller reviews and be cautious of generic names like "a+ top deals", "bestdealzaround" etc.
My favorite one is when you read the 1 star reviews and people say it’s a great product. It makes me wonder if some people are confused what a 1 star review is for. Otherwise this video is 100% accurate and makes me think of my own experiences shopping on Amazon lol.
This usually happens when someone doesnt see the stars and just writes a review.
Could be a first time reviewer, or just someone who didnt see the stars. This happens a lot when a website automatically sets the stars to 1 instead of making selecting an option required, or hides the option to select the star aspect of the rating behind a button, or some other poor ui design choice. Sometimes you can find websites where most people missed the strs and its just a bunch of glowing 1 star reviews.
"One" clearly means "first place", right?