(either that or a fake reviewer added a nonsense category). I know a lot of some people, who would consider themselves "well meaning" (fair, honest, just, whatever) and they totally do this all the time. At least with ebay the items are cheaper and I know I'm buying bottom of the barrel stuff. Look at all these people who are so happy to be buying stuff on Amazon, so much better than the alternatives. The agent claimed they would do something, but obviously I have no idea if they would. Amazon doesn’t gain anything neither does the company selling the product. Half the time the manufacturer themselves are selling directly on ebay! Have folks go through the effort but never show them to to anyone except the company account. It started a little before the NYT acquired them but the downward momentum accelerated from there. I don't think they would ban them - because ANYONE selling stuff on Amazon is earning them money - but they could do more. The more it looks like people buying stuff using amazon are happy, the better that marketing is for Amazon. So now it's not safe to buy SD cards and USB sticks directly from Amazon either now, (I get mine from Micro Center. They are literally killing their own brand by doing this. It might reduce the incentive for the seller to deal with post-sales problems after that 1-month period. The space heater in question had a very high rating. > This idea that rideshare drivers need to be offering entertainment while they drive in order to ensure 5 stars is offensive. Today... you ask a group of people their opinion on Amazon and we're already up to half negative on average, at least where I am. He wanted more, so Amazon had them. The image in the article shows most of it. On the batteries, even the common 18650 is a hopeless cause, at least if we want to get a battery that is what it claims. Maybe a "meh" in between. So it costs Amazon to do the right thing by the people parting with money for stuff so they don't. These days, if I want an honest appraisal of a product then I prefix the search with "reddit" not "review". I've considered seeing if Amazon has anything resembling an API, or if using some kind of screen-scraping was possible to create an overlay app that would do actually usable searching, but figure they'd just shut it down legally or technically, since good searching is obviously not what they want. Keep the blinders on, read your Ayn Rand, don't think about things too much. Well written reviews are a common good, and there is good reason to believe that leaving reviews encourages others to do the same, and that helps me, so I do it. Amazon commingles their legit inventory with 3rd party inventory that drop ships from their warehouses. If I buy a cable for £10, and there's a 10% chance it's faulty, it's not a huge problem for me. It's hard to attribute the lame search and sorting to incompetence at this point, it's starting to seem more like active malice. I last (foolishly) tried again a few weeks ago for some SR44 cells. It's not immediately clear that an Amazon where the average item has 4.7 stars would sell more stuff than an Amazon where the average is 4.2 stars. Even books, now, I get from Indiebound, or Ebay for obscure out-of-print stuff that's hard to find from regular booksellers. Pick out a few random words here: https://www.randomlists.com/random-words . This perhaps explains the rest of your comment :-) Often in economic theory it's assumed that people are totally rational, and often rationality is assumed to include sociopathic levels of self interest. If you can run a shopify site as part of a known brand that helps of course. They later assign one genuine item from the Amazon stock in another warehouse to the seller's stock. Because they contain facts which anchor them to reality and act as “proof of work” in some way. They small business owner sent my brother new ones though, which was nice of him. Also, investing in something internally means absolutely zero as none of those investments seems to have paid off so far, since there has been absolutely nothing deployed or done by Amazon in public to fight the review spam. A lot of reviews raise a red flag in my mind. But I wonder if they’ll be taking a bigger than expected hit once things clear up. its not super hidden as well. > Akerlöf doesn't seem to apply here, there's no hidden information that comes out later. In the end I also contacted Amazon support with screenshots and I had to explain the problem 3 times as the customer representative said they didn’t understand what more can they do since I already received my refund. It might cost more in shipping and delivery time, but it's strongly preferable to having my desk catch fire due to missing or defective safety components, which are very common among knockoffs. The device firmware? Or perhaps disgruntled customers [possibly who purchased an artificially inflated 5 star item only to find it garbage]. I don't think reviews are bad, but I think 5 stars is. When it comes to Amazon reviews you never go by the average you go to scroll down to the actual reviews and read what the one and two star reviews are complaining about and decide if that is acceptable assuming it will happen with your purchase, IMHO. Failure to do this would make it "faulty". They really are killing their brand. Even the ones that Amazon sells themselves (not "fulfilled by Amazon"): Considering that after almost 25 years there is still no functionality for reporting listings as being fraudulent or counterfeit, that tells you exactly where amazon's priorities lie. I'll buy an iPhone off Ebay before I'll go to Amazon for one, at this point - in fact I've done both. Negative reviews are the only actual reviews. Ahhhhh, economics is the study of maximizing socially acceptable sociopathy. This comment isn't entirely without merit. There is a huge advantage in granularity. My brother contact the business owner and sent some pictures. Many times I buy cables to do things with devices, for which I have no working cable already. Your system may have minor chance of success if there was no way for the sellers to contact customers. It's simply resulted in everyone adapting to 5 = slightly above average, 4.9 = average, 4.8 = run away screaming. My personal experience with Amazon is that it's the shop to go to for stuff that is ok if it is broken. News to Me. type questions seem better than reviews. I no longer believe any of the reviews on Amazon are real, and Amazon will have to prove to me they are before I ever trust a review on that site. Maybe I will give Consumer Reports a try, but is the cost of the subscription (of which I don't know the utility), and the lock-in, worth the marginal cost of missing out on great products like NextDesk? They’re way too negative and usually list weird one off problems or shipping issues. The marketplace thing only kinda works if you have "dedicated" or "focused" or "themed" sellers that functioning within clearly defined niches/segments. I don’t care for a review which says “this camera takes amazing pictures” that could apply to any camera and is subjective, but one which says “the cover on the sd card slot is sharp and cut my finger twice” is likely someone who has used that specific camera, and has a specific comment, and while it could be faked - why would it be? And I'm sure Amazon is undercutting the market so that any competitor with good reviews is unable to compete. >But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it's broken, it takes 5 seconds. Of course, we can't know for sure, but Amazon has simply lost my trust. There are other motivations than self-interest. They were revolutionizing delivery and could do no wrong. The question is - what are you going to do with that information?
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