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her.

there is no system in place to stop those truly dedicated to work it.

My wow moment was the claim that Amazon already had to take action on over five million seller accounts! How do you even manage that number?

still to combat buyers like her you would need to limit the number of reviews by any account, CC, and email address, to a set number per month and year. Yes they can still cheat it but no need to make it easy.

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> How do you even manage that number?

You start by not making it so easy to open a seller account. These fraudsters just open up new accounts after they've been caught.

Or introduce some basic standards or curation of what you allow on your marketplace. I’m talking bare bones very low hurdle here, not censorship. Search for headphones on amazon and tell me that Amazon is better off with the hundreds of identical knockoffs under different oddly worded ‘brands’ like “ALIHEN” or “Picun” or “Onpie.” I think the only benefit to amazon is that each of those individual actors then has incentive to lie, cheat, and steal to con people into buying their SKU through all sorts of questionable ‘marketing’ such as this. The only winner is Amazon.

Their anti cheat system is of course automated and can easily detect the ones that only give 5-star reviews or follow other irregular patterns.

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