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Amazon can fix this, but they have no incentive to. It doesn't matter who make the sales, they get 15%. If the seller uses FBA, Amazon get a cut there too.

An example of a fix could be take into account of reviews to sales ratio and flag those products with high reviews to sales ratio.




How do you propose they determine which reviews are fake and which are real?




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