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Reviews on Amazon are heavily gamed and you should not trust them at all. I get little business cards offering gift cards for 5 star reviews regularly. Product listings get swapped for entirely different products while the review stay.



What works for me is, the reviews should fall off like a neat stair case, 5s the most, then 4s, 3s, 2s and 1s. If the 1s are bigger than the 2s by a lot, it's usually the classic "Sell 500 good quality ones, get the reviews, switch to the knock offs".


It’s very easy to look through and figure out which products have mostly bullshit reviews and it’s definitely not the vast majority of them.




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