I've ordered from Amazon Germany and have occasionally left justified 1-star reviews in English. Amazon took these reviews down but I can see they leave 5-star English reviews up.
Its not just these brands that are fooling with the review system.
Its not just these brands that are fooling with the review system.
They play a lot of manipulative little games like this.
(I'm guessing it unlikely that one person adding an item to a wishlist would cause the price to drop for everyone.)
With the level of data collection possible today, it is possibly to target users with dynamic prices. I recently noted that an Alexa device with a display has an always on bluetooth that cannot be turned off. This aloows Amazon to scan for other devices in your house and use that data to determine something about you.