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Amazon review process
Anybody else here run in to something like this?
I often buy repair related items (tools, etc) from Amazon, and I consider the reviews an important decision element. While browsing yesterday, I happen to stumble upon this non-repair related item when doing a search with the word "emergency" in it http://www.amazon.com/Writer-Emergen...DateDescending I was curious so I read about it and noticed that the vast majority of the 4/5 star reviews were clustered in March and November of 2015 and that few if any of those reviewers were verified purchasers. I've written a few hundred reviews for Amazon products so I though nothing of writing a review questioning the review statistics of this product. It was very brief simply questioning what had caused that clustering of 4/5 star reviews around those very few time periods. I was very surprised to find my review rejected. It was the first rejection I have ever received for an Amazon review. Apparently questioning the Amazon review process is a no-no. Amazon wrote - Your review should focus on specific features of the product and your experience with it. Feedback on the seller or your shipment experience should be provided at www.amazon.com/feedback. which sounds reasonable, except that to leave "feedback" you have to actually buy the product. It also indicates to me that they devote a lot of effort to identifying reviews that are critical of their product review process. -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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