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This is where a decent competitor to Amazon can find a real opening.

"A human tests each of the products that we sell"




Who is that human? Is it a singular person? Is that person paid by the store that has incentives to promote an inferior product with higher margins than a better product for less margin? So many questions which leads me to one of my own…what do I find as a reputable reviewer? At this point in the game, I have so little faith in reviewers, I don’t know how to answer that honestly. Even a site dedicated to “honest” reviews would immediately be suspect in my mind. How are they making money? Who is paying for the items they are reviewing? These types of questions are the ones that always give me pause in accepting credentials


>Who is that human?

exactly. I worked at FB and commuted with some folks on the CP/dismal/abuse review team (they reviewed contnet flagged for all sorts of crazy shit)

It was disturbing.... I wouldnt want to be that human, nor know those humans as well - there is a lot of dark content that makes ignorance bliss - both from knowing the content and knowing the humans (even the mods) around it...

yuck


Maybe the human is an Amazon Mechanical Turk, ironically.


Review sites probably shouldn’t mix with merchant sites.


Well, they already are given the massive amount of affiliate driven review sites and rating systems on the merchant sites.


Hammacher Schlemmer. The challenge for them is:

1. Poor technical execution. 2. You can just go buy the product on Amazon for cheaper anyway, with faster and free shipping.


A local book store




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