I've ordered some things from Mpow and Aukey before and they seemed like pretty good quality as well. Not that I condone these practices at all, but I could sympathize with the argument that in a marketplace that relies on reviews and where your competitors are buying thousands of reviews, it could be almost impossible to survive without doing the same, even if your product is good.
Of course, that kind of marketplace only hurts the consumer, so I appreciate Amazon cracking down on it.
On the other hand, I don't really have any better idea of how to rank/recommend products. Overall as a consumer, I am extremely happy with my experience purchasing highly-rated products on Amazon.
I'd rather see Amazon patrol trademark infringing products that inflate ratings. I mistakenly bought a 'thermapro' instead of a 'thermapen' and while it initially worked ok it eventually disintegrated around a year later.
https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1317125603972149254?lang=...
Do they get special perks from Amazon for doing this?
Lol, because there is now public verifiable data that sellers do and get away with these shitty tactics on Amazon. Amazon UK still block reviews with pictures which show the seller included incentive to review.
Amazon dont do anything when this is reported and block your review when you mention it. Some product manager/C level exec is putting short term profits over long term trust in the system.
It's now got to the point where EU needs to legislate and punish this behaviour and those who enable it or fail to action it.
This looks very much like Amazon creating a problem, Amazon nurturing the problem until the problem is basically 100% of their third party seller business and now trying to scape goat 3rd party vendors, who lets be honest, are getting in the way of Amazon’s white label products.
But I guess the question to ask is -- what other brands did I not become acquainted with because I searched for 4-stars or better?
