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Amazon reviews were decent 10 years ago. Now they're worse than useless. My Amazon shopping has followed the curve.

I'm pretty sure Amazon knows best of all what's going on, but stays quiet because they're generating insane profits.



They’ve been broken for a lot longer than a decade.


Oh yes, but now fake reviews are on a an industrial scale.


It's even more devious than that. Some merchants have taken to planting obviously fake reviews of their competitors to get them banned from the platform.


Even going as far as hijacking other's listings!

Crazy story: https://www.kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Brand_Hijacking.html




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