I checked that I hadn’t accidentally clicked on the wrong product page. I really was on the page for an electric can opener. But most of the reviews were for garlic.
The story seemed to be the same for other highly rated electric can openers. Here’s what the first page of results looked like on Wednesday morning:When I clicked through to individual product pages, I found that most of those hundreds of positive reviews were for products other than can openers:• “The basket is great and the chocolates were good quality and plentiful.”• “For the price, I wasn’t expecting much but they are great napkins.
Some pages had a few recent reviews about can openers, alongside many more about other products. In other cases, I didn’t see a single can opener review. Apparently, shady merchants gain control of Amazon pages for highly rated items and then swap out the product descriptions. I assume their goal is to game Amazon’s search engine—and to trick customers who rely on a product’s star rating without actually reading the reviews. I can’t say I was shocked by this situation because I’ve encountered it before.Last year, I was looking for a toy electric drone for my kids.
I have always wondered what was behind this. They also have searching issues where you’re searching for a product, say shoes, and somehow pans will end up in the search. It drives me crazy but I assume this is all a part of some weird ad/marketing tricks
Please Amazon encourages this and only 'does something' just so they can say they did something but its a big chunk of Amazon... Its impossible to shop on Amazon now without having to filter out endless Chinese knockoffs for everything.. Hell even the knockoffs have knockoffs...
Sadly, Jeff Bezos, like Marc Zuckerberg, is an asshole.
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