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Idk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well. >

Wow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely! >

Itt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size. >

All 2000 were given away free to review. >

Or they're bots >

Yeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots.  That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector >

Not true. Amazon has not had financial success with their Amazon-branded lines. Some have stuck around, but if you know anything about store brands, they have no margin. Amazon loses money on most retail they sell of their own brands. They have been making money on their media company and AWS, retail business posted a nearly 200 billion dollar loss of Q3 2022. >

“If you know anything about store brands”
Do you?? There’s no way what you’re saying is true. Store brands wouldn’t be so common if it was. >

Well, just sayin’ I work in the grocery industry, so what happens is there are product categories called loss leaders, and private label makes thin margin. Positive, yes, but not their big bottom line driver. Top line helps companies too; just not as much as bottom line. 
Grocery stores have to have a competitive low price on a lot of commodities.
Think about what a private label does. They go to buy, say, tuna. Tuna is procured by the private label at the same fisheries starkist, Chicken of the Sea, etc would get them at. Then they have to beat those brands in pricing on the shelf. Do you really think there is a whole lot of profit in a 99 cent can of Great Value Tuna at Wal Mart? >

5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. 
3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners. >

Worst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.
Plenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself. >

“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!” >

My favorite part of Amazon is: "Does this product support X?"
"Dont know, I returned mine" >

Lol yeah those are old people that don't understand that when they get those emails asking product questions, that they're not actually asking them specifically. >

4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.
5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit. >

4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo. >

What about 5/5 with 4000 reviews? >

Fake >

Or maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔 >

Someone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy >

Or just due to pure stupidity.
Rating: 0 out of 5. Review: "Is top product, does everything wery goodly" >

1/5 "I don't own this product" >

It’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic. >

Yeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit >

Sounds interesting.. anyone knows? >

I think it’s just called stupidity >

I make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up. >

Well... All the reviews except that one. >

To be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there. >

That one was from your mom. >

Nope, she was the one star. >

I just consider 4 an actual 5.
Karen’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut. >

especially if the 1 star review says something like:

This product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine

some people are idiots >

"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star" >

"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star." >

I ordered some green glasses to help me with my color blindness and they sent THE GRAY ONES!
1 Star >

Anything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought. >

What if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers? >

Usually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews. >

Think that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise. >

People have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals. >

You can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc >

Depends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand