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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It doesn't always work properly. I've used it to check some of the things I've bought and some have been given low marks and there's nothing at all wrong with the items.
Here is one item I've bought that has a rating of D.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H1R0K68 |
All the tool is doing is checking the reviews, not the product since it'd be rather absurd to demand a plugin somehow have actual experience with every product on the associated sites.
If you actually bother to look information provided by the tool you'd also see it highlights reviews in good, bad, and neutral, for all the categories amazon offers (though only if there are reviews in those categories).
Further, it gives you info on the seller so you're not buying from someone you might have issues returning to.
Is it perfect, no. But to me it seems like a step in the right direction. It'd certainly be plausible for a similar tool to be developed for GR to weed out the ARC reviews, and reviews for unpublished books w/o ARCs. Maybe even for SG to weed out reviews from reviewers who consistently deviate from the averages, which might bring the percentages to something more in line with your own. Though this would probably take a good deal more work than the GR tool.