NEVER Trust Amazon Reviews!

Two weeks ago I received this package at my door, rocket catapult launcher, it came in an Amazon box, it was addressed to me but I

never

ordered it, nothing happened for a few days. I share my Amazon account with my family, so I assumed it was someone else. They had decided they wanted a catapult, but then this came out through the ring strike Pro. It's kind of an archery toy. Completely different Amazon package. A completely different day, but still directed at me. I asked my family about it. Nothing, actually, my order history. Nothing about what the Earth is going through.

Well, I've spent the last two weeks figuring it out and one thing's for sure: it's completely changed the way I view and use Amazon, so the first thing we need to do is figure out where these products come from. rocket catapult launcher launch oh

amazon

.com this is our listing it had 44 ratings always five stars across the board and these are also verified purchases so it doesn't look like there's anything dodgy going on what about the other one Wow, the other product, the ring? stripe Pro here we go, expect 4.9 stars, that's literally the highest rating I think I've ever seen on an Amazon product and all the

reviews

just reinforce how perfect everything was, how it arrived on time, how everything was as described, how It's durable, how fun.

Well, it's for the kids. Let's test that theory. I won't lie to you. I'm actually very excited about this. I

never

run out of toys to tie to your feet. This feels like a trip. Rocket Hazard, so basically Hook the rocket like this, oh, this is so scary. I feel like the band is going to break up at any moment. Wow, and then for this one, you run the dart through, you pull it back and that should automatically create all the elastic that we need. I really hate pulling on the elastic. It was pretty fun, I mean, don't get me wrong, I had a great time with these toys, they're fun, but still 4.9 stars is crazy, so my first thought was: Oh, this company sends out free samples to get

reviews

, even worse? are buying reviews, the answer in this case is no.

I was very wrong; There's actually something much creepier going on with these products, but on the way to that answer I learned something about paid reviews that I think you should know and that's how easy it is to make them see. My initial plan was to quickly create a private seller account and see if I could list my cat Milo as an item and then pay someone to give it a fake five star review, which would be crazy because if they really knew. They would give him one, maybe a 1.5, however, I'll give this to Amazon. Now they have made sure that you have to jump through a lot of hoops to be a seller like this, it's not even a complete list but you need at least a government ID, a bank account, a charged credit card and their phone number , are enough measures that if he was just a hobbyist trying to be a minor annoyance then it would probably put him off, that's me in this case, so I decided to fake it.

To try to find the lowest rated product on Amazon, I pretended it was my ad and then I saw how easy it would be to pay someone to change it, so I decided to choose game consoles that would be a lot of fun for some strange reason. It doesn't let you sort by the products with the lowest ratings, only the ones with the highest ratings first, so I had to do that and then manually go through 81 pages until I finally arrived at this retro USB game console that, according to the only revision that currently exists, does not work.

So if I type into Google right now Amazon reviews, how to buy reviews from proven Amazon tricks, there are literally hundreds of these sites so I added one of these review sellers on WhatsApp, I guess they always tend to give out WhatsApp numbers because they deal internationally and I just sent them a message to say hello. I am interested in your services. Could we make a call to talk more? One just responded to say yes. They are calling me now. Hello how are you? Hello I'm fine. I'm selling a video game console on Amazon, people don't seem to like it.

There is currently only one review and it is a bad review. Positive preview of your product. Wow, you can eliminate the bad one. How many positive reviews can you add? many units 50 or 100 yes I can do it, you need to fight, then you have to pay dearly for each verified review, you really have to buy the product, yes I did this, thank you very much, I will get back to you, regards, bye. Wow, that's a lot worse than I expected and a lot easier than I expected. It's just one of what seems like an endless number of companies offering the same services like this one here called Amazon Organic Review.

Services where they realize what they are doing. like the exact opposite of an organic review, wait, you can even buy negative reviews for your competitor's products. This is crazy. I find it absolutely hilarious that the site that actually sells you fake reviews shows how good their own customer reviews are. They're probably legit, so this doesn't answer the mystery of the Catapult launcher or the Ring Strike Pro just yet, but the point is that while Amazon is clamping down on paid reviews, there's still a thriving market for them and It's all due to the simple fact that reviews have a high monetary value for businesses, I'm referring to surveys that show that 80 of Amazon users do not purchase a product until they have seen the reviews and therefore, In a very real way, reviews equal cash and yet, it's too easy to make it so that all you need for a review is to have an account and click write review, so there is an oversupply, which was probably why a 2020 analysis of Amazon reviews that analyzed more than 7.1 billion of them found that 42 percent were fake, I mean, in the last year alone, Amazon has more than 10,000 managers of Facebook groups that have been involved in coordinating and managing fake reviews, which on one hand sounds great, you know they're taking action, but then you think, man, if they shut down. down 10,000 What is the total number of them still operating?

Amazon has over 2 million sellers, each with their own product library, all constantly changing, they just can't control it all, but there's a new player that just joined. We already know the mix of recent years with AI. At this point, AI is an incredible tool for generating images, music and even jokes, but with that power also comes the ability to write reviews and this changes the entire paradigm of fake reviews because in the time it would have previously taken for one person write one, now you can write 50. So I just opened a Bard, which is Google's AI, write me a positive review about a children's toy that is a catapult, so even though the brief I gave it, basically no provides details about the product itself, the AI ​​can simply fill in the gaps for you, it's a great way for kids to have fun and get some exercise, that's basically what half of the Amazon reviews said, this is happening well.

Now, how do we know well? Because some sellers don't verify the result, there is a classic line that chat gbt often uses when trying to give context about where you are in something you say like an AI language model. Look at enough Amazon reviews these days. You'll see this line, you can find it on waist trimmers, you can find it in books, you can find it on maternity shorts, and sometimes you can see that they even accidentally left it in the part that shows what message they are asking the AI ​​to get the response they received, which is the epitome of a joke, don't get me wrong, Amazon is trying to fight back.

They have introduced a scheme called Amazon Vine, a program where Amazon hand-picks a group of people to become members, almost as if they became members themselves. a friend to Amazon or as some would say primate and those members can select any product they like, they can get it for free and then they can leave a review that is tagged as excellent customer review or free product, so if you find a review that is labeled As a Vine review, you can rest easy knowing that that review is certified by Amazon and they have also created their own AI that analyzes how many reviews an account leaves and the patterns in the seller profiles where they are left. try to separate the fake from the real, but I mean the call I had earlier with the fake reviewer was a prime example of how it doesn't really work, it's a minefield.

I mean, the general consensus online is that If you really want to be sure, you should paste a product link on a fake site that appears to use an AI that looks at reviews and detects suspicious grammatical errors, so let me try searching for these two products falsely place to see if it checks something, just paste the URL there, hit enter, it says b, which these guys say is a pass, but I guess the question is how does the fake place work? I have no idea they don't explain what exactly it is. the algorithm looks and they just expect you to take their rating at face value so after this I decided to look a bit more at the fake place and it turns out that it is quite fake as I detect that it has less than two stars on Trustpilot with many sellers commenting . on forums reviewing Know R Reel are marked as fake, many of those sellers then recommended review meta which is a more advanced tool that analyzes the number of unverified purchases, similarities in word counts of reviews, even things like phrases. repetition and even shows you graphs of when each review is left so you can see if they are all grouped together at once, etc.

I admit that this tool is great, so I was recently thinking about buying a new office chair for my editor. I pasted the link here and managed to point out that 30 percent of the thousands of reviews left were left by people who had never reviewed another product which is enough more than normal for the site to be like, wait for this. This is common behavior, but there is a good chance that the seller of this listing is asking people to review it or even financially encouraging people to review it, but again, listings for these two products must be approved and reviewed. to Metra and score better than fake squats.

It's still barely above three stars on Trustpilot, meaning there's essentially no reliable tool currently out there for you to know for sure if a review is genuine. The best thing to do now is to just use your intuition, read the review and check to see if it mentions features that are specific to what you're looking at Vega, the review is less likely to be written by someone who has actually used it, but it becomes more dubious because the deeper I go into review manipulation, the more I realize how much power sellers have. I've spent way too much time searching for this video on Amazon but if you find it useful then you know we're trying to beat Apple and the subscribers, we're very close so the sub to the channel would be Amazon anyway, it's become a tactic incredibly widespread on Amazon when a new version of a product comes out or you simply come across a product that has a higher profit margin and you want to change it more instead of By removing one of your existing listings and therefore all the reviews positives that you have accumulated through it, you can simply update it and change the details to those of your new product, this is what an Amazon seller's dashboard will look like and within each product. then you can click edit and then when you click that you can change everything like the vital information which will be the main details that you will see at first glance like the title of a listing but you can change the description you can change the images. you can add variations and this is where you change the price and you might think well, of course you can, that's totally fair and there are many sellers who use these tools for the customer's benefit, but it's very easy to exploit if you want to.

This creates three potential problems: One, sellers can sell something they know will get great reviews, build a popular listing, and then swap the product for something that isn't as good at customization, but they'll make more money with two. The fact that sellers being able to freely adjust the price means they can sell a product incredibly cheap on those positive reviews because naturally everything is better when it's cheap and in a review everything is judged on price and then once you have the reviews , you increase the price. price and every new customer that comes to that page will read the reviews and assume that those reviews are based on the current price of the product and then if you claim to buy that product and you believe that it is not actually worth the money you paid, well you might assume it's probably just you and it's less likelymake a big deal out of it because everyone else seems to like it and then the third thing is that many sellers have been caught trying to list multiple separate sellers. products as if they were variations of a product so you know when you are looking for something to buy, the variations feature is meant to be there so sellers can add some color or size options, but sellers have realized that If selling something like Let It generates a lot of positive feedback and then a good ranking, then they can simply add new products as variations to the existing listing and make more money from it.

All this is happening today and good, I think. Amazon is trying, I mean they just sued the dietary supplement company Bountiful for doing exactly this, they just need to do more, for example they should make it very clear when someone writes a review what price of the product that review is based on, as if not. The review checking website will be able to detect these baits and change tactics; You just have to be aware that they exist and make sure the reviews talk about the specific products you think you're buying, but the most curious and devious strategy that these Amazon sellers use and what seems to have happened here and here is what is known as a brushing scam, so you know that Amazon is employing its own AI now, which can solve it very quickly. find out if you or someone linked to you is trying to game the system, brushing can turn a random stranger into the person who is gaming on your behalf, the idea being that from time to time data leaks about your address, for example, that you have entered on a site will simply be released to the public, this will often be collected by a broker who will then sell that data to, in this case, a seller or someone the seller has hired to promote their put together listing. with your details, then this person can send a product to that address using the Amazon shipping program and mark it as a gift, which means that even though the product has not been purchased, it creates a real Amazon tracking number and, therefore, technically when it is delivered and then not returned, it is a verified buyer. who can leave a verified review, you do nothing, they will leave the review themselves, you are just there as the object sitting in the middle to be able to demonstrate that a delivery has occurred and because this would not be a paid review or review of a AI generator, no external site will be able to collect it.

This would be a human being who would simply write the review as if it were you and here's the trick: it doesn't need to be a review for the product you received the company doesn't need to send you what they are writing the review for, they just have to do something cheap that they can do wholesale, hence these things, so I've been sitting here analyzing these specific toys and their listings and the reviews left on those listings to try to figure out what's been going on at Bakery, when in reality the reviews written on my name could very well not have been in these listings, but in any of the 15 million different products at the moment and there is no way for me to find out, although there are obviously much worse scams to be a part of than the ones they offer you free products, receiving unsolicited packages from an Amazon seller is a pretty good sign that you have been part of a data League, that is why it is so important to set up some type of protection, like for me the Surfshark alert, it is a double attack: It will check how many times the password you want to use has been breached and therefore how vulnerable an account is. but then B, if something still happens to your email, your address, your credit card details, it will tell you so you can do something about it, like shoot them with a foam dart.

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