Interesting news article on BuzzFeedNews titled “
Her Amazon Purchases Are Real. The Reviews Are Fake.” It discusses how 3rd party sellers on Amazon pay people to buy their products and then write 5 star reviews as verified buyers. The jerks who do this buy the items with their own credit cards to get “buyer verified” attached to their reviews, then the 3rd party seller reimburses them once the 5 star review is posted. I think we have suspected this garbage all along. Personally I never trust reviews on any retail site as they tend to seem rather manipulated. Even legitimate reviews are often ridiculous. We see an irate customer mad because UPS trashed their package so they give the item a bad rating. We see idiots who order the wrong thing because they have their head up their backside, but they blame the seller. And of course, we have the sellers who scam the system to inflate their product ratings. One thing is for sure, you can’t trust the numbers and you have to read each review to judge whether it is fake, stupid, nonsensical, are actually helpful.