01-01-2010, 03:28 PM | #1 |
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Amazon Review Pet Peeve
It would be nice if Amazon added a link/button to flag reviews that don't review the product. I have been reading a lot of them recently and I get tired of "Why is this so expensive?" or "shipped with pages ripped" type reviews of books and other products.
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01-01-2010, 03:45 PM | #2 |
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That used to drive me nuts too. Now I use GoodReads for my reviews
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01-01-2010, 03:56 PM | #3 |
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I use the reader's reviews of books in Amazon...is GoodReads better?
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01-01-2010, 04:07 PM | #4 |
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01-01-2010, 04:57 PM | #5 |
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I especially dislike the flame reviews of political works. You often get people who obviously haven't read the book coming in with their political or religious agenda and rating the book poorly and making an ignorant comment.
It's really very annoying when you want to read about the actual merits of the book by people who have read it. |
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01-01-2010, 05:21 PM | #6 |
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There is a "Report This" link at the bottom of every review. I thought I recalled that they were adding some kind of tag identifying the reviewer actually owned the book or item. I can't remember where I read it.
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01-02-2010, 01:16 PM | #7 |
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I like LibraryThing for book reviews (http://www.librarything.com). There you get real readers. Amazon seems to have a lot of people who want their 5 minutes of fame by posting the most outrageous remarks possible.
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01-02-2010, 03:12 PM | #8 | |
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01-02-2010, 04:03 PM | #9 |
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Glad I'm not the only one who gets bugged by this. My other favorites are people who "review" pre-release items that aren't out yet and the way Amazon piles all the reviews for different versions of a title in together.
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01-03-2010, 07:45 PM | #10 | |
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04-16-2010, 12:39 PM | #11 |
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amazon started a program to get those on their site--they actually get the material from the publishers to certain vetted reviewers so that they can have early reviews just like a pro publication or newspaper.
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04-17-2010, 10:43 PM | #12 |
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I have been going to GoodReads as well.
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