{"id":34531,"date":"2021-12-23T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T21:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34531"},"modified":"2021-12-23T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T21:34:10","slug":"bait-and-switch-amazon-reviews-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/23\/bait-and-switch-amazon-reviews-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Bait-and-Switch Amazon Reviews, Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fullstackeconomics.com\/amazon-isnt-doing-enough-to-stop-bait-and-switch-reviews\/\">Timothy B. Lee<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=29587024\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/fullstackeconomics.com\/amazon-isnt-doing-enough-to-stop-bait-and-switch-reviews\/\">\n<p>When I clicked through to individual product pages, I found that most of those hundreds of positive reviews were for products other than can openers[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, shady merchants gain control of Amazon pages for highly-rated items and then swap out the product descriptions. I assume their goal is to game Amazon&rsquo;s search engine&mdash;and to trick customers who rely in a product&rsquo;s star rating without actually reading the reviews.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Amazon about the bait-and-switch review problem last year, a spokesperson told me that &ldquo;we have clear guidelines about when products should be grouped together and we have guardrails in place to prevent products from being incorrectly grouped, either due to human error or abuse.&rdquo; But the guardrails against abuse still don&rsquo;t seem to be working. Abuse continues to run rampant, at least for can openers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/30\/bait-and-switch-amazon-reviews\/\">Bait-and-Switch Amazon Reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy B. Lee (via Hacker News): When I clicked through to individual product pages, I found that most of those hundreds of positive reviews were for products other than can openers[&#8230;] [&#8230;] Apparently, shady merchants gain control of Amazon pages for highly-rated items and then swap out the product descriptions. I assume their goal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-12-23T21:34:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"830ef1a4-3d06-493a-9d8f-1e7a82dff657","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-12-23T21:34:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Agw7xpD0GSTqdjx56gt_2Vw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,509,96],"class_list":["post-34531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-shopping","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34532,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34531\/revisions\/34532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}