NEVER Trust Amazon Reviews!

Amazon reviews are a mess - here's why.

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[Mrwhosetheboss]

Correction: I was unaware that the brand FunWares reached out to a member of my team located in the United States. That member asked to have the items sent to me, but since I did not have any direct contact with Funwares, neither myself, the UK team, nor my family knew where these had come from. The brand did not just send it out of nowhere. Further, I am not alleging the brand paid for any fake reviews. The miscommunication prompted the investigation into this topic, but I do not believe that FunWares fakes its user reviews or pays for any user reviews. As stated in the video I enjoyed using the product and make no representations or believe that the company has done anything wrong or misleading - that said, it doesn’t change the fact that these types of scams are very prevalent online!

[MrUnknownXD]

Well I never read the positive reviews anymore on Amazon.

I mostly scan the negatives to see if there's any consistent issues. If they are only "shipping got damaged" or something clearly that the manufacturer warned against and the buyer still bought it..."this was too small or big" kind of thing (measure before you order, people)...I'm good to go.
Is it me or does anyone else skip over the positives?

[Zactivist]

Meanwhile, Amazon randomly banned me from reviewing products. I used to enjoy writing a review of things I bought there and detailing the type of things that I find helpful to know when I'm buying something. The experience of being banned for no reason and having to fight with them to unblock me made me stop doing reviews. Just soured me on it. So they allow a lot of fakes and treat their actual customers like crooks.

[naomiboyce]

I once gave a 2 star review on a product on Amazon that I thought deserved the 2 stars and the company emailed me and told me if I took down the bad review and replaced it with a 5 star one they would send me a $50 gift card to Amazon… I was shocked!

[bbc]

I’ve been delivering for Amazon for 3 years and the amount of people telling me they haven’t ordered the parcel is insane, glad you made this video

[komaboi]

The scam I noticed on Amazon was just how many products were raised in price in the past few weeks and then "put on sale" for Amazon Prime Day. I saw quite a few items that had a nice % off, but when I checked their price histories, it was just the normal price for the products. I thought this was illegal...

[finnmac]

As an AI model, I cannot provide information from personal experience, however, this video is a great review of the "Amazon Review Scandal". It excellently describes the problem and stays entertaining.

[Shubham]

The biggest scam is when companies edit their entire product page, where they received amazing reviews for an old product, and replace it with their new products. This makes customers think that the reviews are for the current products but in reality the reviews are many years old and was for the old product. Xiaomi and Samsung are expert in doing this scam.

[victorxes]

Amazon has a bit of the blame tho. Almost every negative review I have left on any product has been rejected and needed to be rewritten to be "more product related" but as soon as I swapped bad remarks for good, it gets approved with no issues from Amazon, just like any other positive review I have left.

[Kennephus]

This happened to me. Exactly this. The item was a low quality digital TV antenna. I spent weeks on the phone with Amazon trying to get to the bottom of it, and most of the reps I spoke seemed to assume I was the scammer.

[piyanshu]

The way Arun tells us "This could be a sign of data leak" and procedes to let us know about surfshark that he uses for years now is hillarious

[ynglink]

My wife was impacted by something like this and we got some really odd items from it. Like a multicolored shiny flag and a panda hat. After we confirmed none of our accounts were impacted and nobody sent it to us as a gag gift or something, we looked more into it and found it's a common scam practice.

[QwoaX]

In Germany I've heard about a similar case years ago. Some guy received endless amounts of deliveries he never ordered from Chinese companies because sending stuff they can't sell to random adresses is cheaper than paying Amazon the storage fees or even the disposal.

[Butterflyness]

Thanks for explaining this. I’m an Amazon seller, honestly doing my business with everything above board. A few weeks ago I had a customer email me that someone sent them my product for free and they didn’t know who. I was perplexed and said it must have been a gift. Other people told me there was a scam involved, I just didn’t understand what it was.

Amazon does try hard to mitigate these black hat tactics and genuine sellers like myself are afraid to step any toes outside the lines because we don’t want to risk our accounts. However there are millions of Chinese sellers and others who use all these crazy tactics. It does make it hard to sell against them. Still I would not resort to doing these things. I really hope that Amazon does come up with more ways to fight these issues while not penalising genuine sellers like myself.

[MikeTheEliteX]

Arun’s uploading schedules is on point. And each video is a goddamn masterpiece.

[ramzanraza]

Another problem is people who give fake negative reviews and complain to amazon to get refund and keep the item for themselves

[Eckziebop]

I love how he took so much time off the actual topic of the video just to explain to us about fake reviews and haters, this man is the best for real

[NonLegitNation]

this hits home for me. I've been an Amazon Prime member since 2014 and I have 100s of reviews of products, good reviews and bad reviews. One day out of the blue Amazon decided they didn't want me reviewing purchased products anymore and they banned me from reviewing products, saying it appears that I was compensated for a review, which is not allowed on Amazon (this just happened to happen after I left a 1-star review of a product). I contacted Amazon customer service and they were absolutely no help, they wouldn't even tell me what review i had supposedly been compensated for. I must have chatted with 5 or 6 different Amazon reps and all of them refused to give me any information and told me they would not restore my ability to review products. To this day I still can't review anything, and even worse I'm not even allowed to ask a question about a product. Not being able to review a product, especially if it sucks or is defective is frustrating, but not being able to ask a question about the product in downright infuriating. Because of Amazon's asinine mistake and policy, I now end up returning about half of my purchases because of not being able to ask about details or features of the items.

[zRedPlays]

This is why I almost always watch reviews on YouTube, while making sure they aren't sponsored.

[peterblue]

A couple years ago I looked at my reviews and there was two fake reviews that had been made for things iv never looked at let alone bought or reviewed.

The scarier thing was they were medical items like a home x-ray machine MRI scan or something else medical can't remember exactly what it was but there were two different items and both were medical.

All Amazon did was delete the reviews.