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The problem is with identifying which items are priced representative of their quality, and which are overpriced. Everyone advertises quality, reviews are faked, forums are astroturfed. I’d gladly pay for quality if there was some way to know what I was getting.

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I can't believe how much blatant lies there are with products now. I was looking at tools on Amazon since I was given a gift card for it and I see tools listed as being "stainless steel" but in the reviews you have 90% of the reviews saying the product was blessed by Jesus and 10% giving one star reviews with pictures showing the "stainless steel" was rusting immediately and fracturing under normal use.

How does a product flat out lying about its specs and getting called out end up still on the store selling well?

That's due to the "leave a good review and we will give you a gift card" tactic that's been somewhat common these days.

Example: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/here-is-how-they-g...

I understand how the reviews get faked but not why Amazon and the seller get away with flat out lying. The product is clearly not made of stainless steel so its basically fraud to keep selling it knowing its a lie. Obviously something is going wrong with consumer protection laws where a company is getting away with large scale lying about products.

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