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You're right user reviews on Amazon are manipulated. Bought a bluetooth earphone on Amazon DE, was contacted by vendor to exchange a five star for a half refund.

Also came across Facebook ads that asks you to buy random crap and leave positive review in exchange for a full refund, and they call this "free samplimg".

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> was contacted by vendor to exchange a five star for a half refund

And the way you can tell Amazon doesn't care is because they have no way to report this to them.

I've tried. They just don't care if someone offers you something off platform in exchange for a good review.

Maybe that's why Amazon beat eBay. When I worked at eBay 17 years ago we had systems in place to combat this exact type of fraud (off platform exchange for a good review).

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