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Has Anyone noticed this?

BalletBabe — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:24:35 GMT

Most items are 5 star on Amazon but I can look at the same item on QVC and they have bad reviews. It is confusing. The TSV is like that. Anyone have these camera's, and are you happy with them?

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QVCkitty1 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:06:31 GMT

@BalletBabe wrote:
Most items are 5 star on Amazon but I can look at the same item on QVC and they have bad reviews. It is confusing. The TSV is like that. Anyone have thes camer's and are you happy with them?

What I find on Amazon are products with 4 and 5 stars, then I read the actual reviews and they are so negative. It's really hard to know what to believe.

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suzyQ3 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:18:22 GMT

You can't judge by the overall stars. What I do is look at the one-star reviews first, then the three-star reviews, and then some of the five-star reviews to get a good feel about the product. Of course if the product has a huge number of reviews, I don't read every single one of them.

I'm speaking only of Amazon here as I don't shop at QVC but do a heck of a lot shopping on Amazon. I try to stick with Prime items because I know that I can return at no cost if necessary.

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GenXmuse — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:51:51 GMT

I have found the reverse to be true. I always look at the customers' other ratings to see if they is a pattern of giving all positive or all negative reviews and disregard those. All positive to means they may be getting compensated in some way on Amazon. Always good to cull reviews from various sources if you're not sure about something which I see that you do!

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sunshine45 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:54:24 GMT

i take ALL recommendations and ALL bad reviews with a grain of salt. most of the time if i really want to try something, i try it and make my own decision as to whether or not it works for me or not.

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furbabylover — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 01:52:47 GMT

@BalletBabe Amazon has been called on the carpet for letting vendors post fake reviews- by the hundreds! It was in the news not too long ago. Sorry, I don't have the link.

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BalletBabe — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 01:56:49 GMT

@furbabylover wrote:
@BalletBabe Amazon has been called on the carpet for letting vendors post fake reviews- by the hundreds! It was in the news not too long ago. Sorry, I don't have the link.

@furbabylover Oh wow, that explains a lot. I know when I have bought stuff they will give you a free item for a good post. I have to love it to give a good post. That is interesting. I Knew something was fishy. Thanks

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BalletBabe — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 01:58:18 GMT

@QVCkitty1 wrote:
@BalletBabe wrote:
Most items are 5 star on Amazon but I can look at the same item on QVC and they have bad reviews. It is confusing. The TSV is like that. Anyone have thes camer's and are you happy with them?
What I find on Amazon are products with 4 and 5 stars, then I read the actual reviews and they are so negative. It's really hard to know what to believe.

@QVCkitty1 Good point and funny you said that as I noiced that the other day. Very deceiving.

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Desertdi — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:02:34 GMT

@BalletBabe wrote:
@furbabylover wrote:
@BalletBabe Amazon has been called on the carpet for letting vendors post fake reviews- by the hundreds! It was in the news not too long ago. Sorry, I don't have the link.
@furbabylover Oh wow, that explains a lot. I know when I have bought stuff they will give you a free item for a good post. I have to love it to give a good post. That is interesting. I Knew something was fishy. Thanks

Huh? I have NEVER gotten anything "FREE" from Amazon.....and I place about 2 orders a week with them (and yes, I do reviews).

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kitty76 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:07:54 GMT

I ordered a foot cream and received a letter about 2 weeks later saying they would either give me another jar for free or a $10 Amazon gift card if I wrote 5 star review of the product.

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CAcableGirl2 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:48:39 GMT

@kitty76 That sounds pretty unethical to me to "bribe" people to give a good review.

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GenXmuse — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:04:15 GMT

They have "Vine" reviewers but they disclose they got the product for free. I don't discount them if I see they don't give across the board five stars and they seem even handed about the distribution of their ratings.
Of course some negative reviews are for inconsequential things and some people give five stars and and say I haven't tried it yet but it looks great on both QVC and Amazon.

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Foxxee — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:17:09 GMT

I read negative reviews first looking for a pattern. If buyers say the same thing, then I won't buy it.

I heard about some shenanigans going on at Amazon. One was Amazon deleting bad reviews. I don't know if it was Amazon or sellers or if they could do that, but something was going on.

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BalletBabe — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:10:23 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
@BalletBabe wrote:
@furbabylover wrote:
@BalletBabe Amazon has been called on the carpet for letting vendors post fake reviews- by the hundreds! It was in the news not too long ago. Sorry, I don't have the link.
@furbabylover Oh wow, that explains a lot. I know when I have bought stuff they will give you a free item for a good post. I have to love it to give a good post. That is interesting. I Knew something was fishy. Thanks
Huh? I have NEVER gotten anything "FREE" from Amazon.....and I place about 2 orders a week with them (and yes, I do reviews).

@Desertdi I have gotten several free things over the years but not from Amazon, from a vendor. You buy the item and then if you give a good review , you send them a copy of the review with your order number. It is usually in the order when you receive it. I got a free internet extender, free face mask, and recently a free door chime. You must not be ordering the right things.

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BalletBabe — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:11:55 GMT

@kitty76 wrote:
I ordered a foot cream and received a letter about 2 weeks later saying they would either give me another jar for free or a $10 Amazon gift card if I wrote 5 star review of the product.

@kitty76 Yes, I have gotten several free things but I do have to like the product to give them a good review. It is kind of fun getting the free stuff. LOL

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BalletBabe — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:13:43 GMT

@CAcableGirl2 wrote:
@kitty76 That sounds pretty unethical to me to "bribe" people to give a good review.

@CAcableGirl2 I agree, but as I said I won't do it if I don't like the item.

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Desertdi — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 07:37:11 GMT

@BalletBabe wrote:
@Desertdi wrote:
@BalletBabe wrote:
@furbabylover wrote:
@BalletBabe Amazon has been called on the carpet for letting vendors post fake reviews- by the hundreds! It was in the news not too long ago. Sorry, I don't have the link.
@furbabylover Oh wow, that explains a lot. I know when I have bought stuff they will give you a free item for a good post. I have to love it to give a good post. That is interesting. I Knew something was fishy. Thanks
Huh? I have NEVER gotten anything "FREE" from Amazon.....and I place about 2 orders a week with them (and yes, I do reviews).
@Desertdi I have gotten several free things over the years but not from Amazon, from a vendor. You buy the item and then if you give a good review , you send them a copy of the review with your order number. It is usually in the order when you receive it. I got a free internet extender, free face mask, and recently a free door chime. You must not be ordering the right things.

@BalletBabe I guess not. Look what I'm missing(!!)

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jackthebear — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:30:56 GMT

i usually filter by most recent

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Ainhisg — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:40:02 GMT

I think Amazon has more accurate reviews than QVC especially for electronics. Seems like most reviewers of electronics on QVC have no clue how to work what they bought nor do they do any research on how to do so. They just give it a bad review and send it back. I see this time and time again especially with Tracfone products, pressure cookers, robot vacs, etc.

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busymom22 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:13:42 GMT

Fakespot dot come is a website where you can enter a link and it has some special calculations that grades a link, A-F for honest reviews. There are companies that give items away for reviews so often they are not honest ones.