Amazon reviews now unreliable: negative reviews filtered (Anker example)
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Checking the reviews I saw that many people had also received fakes and left one star reviews. Most reviews were five star, so I guess there’s some commingling or similar.
They’ve sent a replacement but, rightly or wrongly, I feel not only was my time wasted but that I’m subject to a minor coverup.
Products on the platform are “deduped” by merging listings from multiple sellers of the same product under a single master listing, where the price for the item is the lowest price available from all sellers.
This leads to counterfeit sellers targeting high-quantity items, creating and selling fakes for just under MSRP and making out like bandits.
It’s impossible for Amazon to police, and they can’t avoid merging listings unless they want a million duplicate products in their search results.
However, I would have also thought that it was in Amazon's interest to fix this before the items go the customer as it does have a detrimental impact on both Amazon and the counterfeited brand.
Anyway, one more reason to dump amazon, if their appalling treatment of people isn't enough maybe the time wasted in buying then returning fake items (if you can tell at all, if you're buying a product for the first time you can't always spot a fake) is.