Amazon Tackling Fake Product Reviews

Cheers

Yeah, the internet provides Fred an unlimited source of things to get mad about.

It tends to do that.

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The ratings have always been all but worthless:

On anything of significant value I read _all_ the reviews. Plus Amazon's return policy is superb. ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

It is as well to take some with a big pinch of salt.

Clueless morons can write reviews of books or kit too so you get examples where really good textbooks or kit has a *** rating consisting of a bimodal * (by idiots) and ***** (by experts) distribution.

The standard reference on JPEG has this problem:

It is decidedly overpriced new, but who needs a mint edition?

More amusing so did this geologists hammer in 2012 (the clue is in the name for any dumber than a rock ice climbing survivalists out there).

(examine the 1* reviews which dominated at one time)

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Regards, 
Martin Brown

That can be several hundred. I read a sampling of the positive reviews and try to read all of the negative. Though there are often too many of them to read, too.

Which is why you actually have to READ the reviews. What _is_ it that's good/bad?

Great book. ...and I worked with Joan for a couple of years. ;-)

Your review is useless. ;-)

I wonder why they'd pan a JPEG book? ;-)

Sometimes fake reviews are not worthless, as in the case of the famous

55 gallon drum of KY Jelly. I hope they don't delete those. They're hilarious.