iirc for those products even the reviews are paid reviews, just not in traditional kind of paying bot farms, what they did is doing giveaways but tell you to buy this stuff, but will refund you after you leave a review.
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Amazon sellers have a habit of selling one thing, getting a bunch of decent reviews, and then swapping the entire description, name and pictures to a dodgy item they want to shift.
Which is why you see 2TB USB sticks for £10 with a bunch of five star reviews, but when you dip down into them, they all say things like “Just what we needed. Looks great on my Christmas tree.”
So I’m more likely to blame Amazon here. They are a shockingly shit company.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah this should be illegal. It’s literally a bait and switch.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t see why using 2 TB USB drives as Christmas ornaments should be illegal, I do it occasionally with old sata HDDs.