Chuffing false Amazon reviews

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unixman replied

26 January 2016, 17:05
Originally posted by I just need to test it View Post

Glen gave five stars to all items except one. How bad must that one be?

It's a smoke alarm and he sits at home vaping.
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diseasex replied

26 January 2016, 17:03
Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

Yet they show as verified purchases?

Buy and refund?
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mudskipper replied

26 January 2016, 17:02
Yet they show as verified purchases?
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I just need to test it replied

26 January 2016, 17:01
Glen gave five stars to all items except one. How bad must that one be?
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LondonManc replied

26 January 2016, 16:54
Glen? No wonder SimonMac needs a new name for his business venture.
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diseasex replied

26 January 2016, 16:54
Originally posted by unixman View Post

What the flip is going on at Amazon. Customer product reviews were a useful feature. No longer, it seems. Most products now seem to be crawling with obviously fake five-star reviews. For example.

1. Go to any product under £20.
2. Scroll to very bottom of visible reviews and click on "Show all xx reviews (newest first)".
3. You will see many one or two-word reviews, all five stars. Pick one and click on the user's name, to see their other reviews.
4. Fancy that - he or she left an identical review for 50 other products on the same day.

What gets me is - Amazon could trash all this fakery with a simple SQL query which would complete in probably in less than an hour. And who is paying these people? Presumably the seller. Again, not hard to remediate.

Example of above.

Eg http://www.amazon.co.uk/Navitech-Wat...t+%22sleeve%22

"glen" left almost identical reviews (five star) for 73 products, all on December 15th. FFS (for flip's sake).

I would do this in 45min @ 20% higher rate

=)
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unixman started a topic Chuffing false Amazon reviews

26 January 2016, 16:52
Chuffing false Amazon reviews

What the flip is going on at Amazon. Customer product reviews were a useful feature. No longer, it seems. Most products now seem to be crawling with obviously fake five-star reviews. For example.

1. Go to any product under £20.
2. Scroll to very bottom of visible reviews and click on "Show all xx reviews (newest first)".
3. You will see many one or two-word reviews, all five stars. Pick one and click on the user's name, to see their other reviews.
4. Fancy that - he or she left an identical review for 50 other products on the same day.

What gets me is - Amazon could trash all this fakery with a simple SQL query which would complete in probably in less than an hour. And who is paying these people? Presumably the seller. Again, not hard to remediate.

Example of above.

Eg http://www.amazon.co.uk/Navitech-Wat...t+%22sleeve%22

"glen" left almost identical reviews (five star) for 73 products, all on December 15th. FFS (for flip's sake).
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