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Comment by bitmasher9

5 days ago

A product being on a shelf at a Walmart is a better indicator of quality then anything you could post on an Amazon listing.

Funny, it's the opposite to me.

A product on the shelf, I don't have the slightest idea if it'll break in a month or have a feature that doesn't work right.

When I start browsing Amazon reviews, I feel vastly more confident I know what I'm buying.

Only exception is clothing, since it's next to impossible to judge fit and texture and often even color online.

  • >When I start browsing Amazon reviews, I feel vastly more confident I know what I'm buying.

    I hate to break it to you, but a large majority of reviews are fake.

    • I hate to break it to you, but the fake reviews are mostly all positive.

      But if you find a ton of negative reviews complaining that the handle breaks after 2 months... then that's probably real. That's the stuff you look for, to see if there's any consistent pattern to the negative reviews.

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