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I can't believe they left the reviews for Veet for Men Hair Removal off the list.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK

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Unicorn Cookie Cutter - 4.75

I am not sure that all Amazon customers know how to make yellow cake.

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http://www.amazon.com/review/R3JUIEGFUTUWMI/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt...

"I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty."

Brilliant!

A bit surprising that they went so harshly political, highlighting the Romney jokes on a lighthearted marketing page. The 47% of voters who supported Romney for President might react negatively to Amazon for that.

I am curious as to what effect do these reviews have on sales. Some of them rate the product 1 star as part of the joke bringing down the overall rating of the product. Anyone know if that reduces their sales?

I'd guess that 1-star joke reviews help sales overall, by spreading links to the joke reviews, and thus to the product. And all of the products I've ever seen a joke review on already had a bunch of normal reviews, so the one review rating wouldn't affect the overall rating much.

There's a strong correlation between the number of reviews of movies and box office performance, but not the average rating. Having a bunch of joke reviews, even bad ones, probably does more to raise awareness of products than it does to harm sales.

Any links for this study?

That is total "Correlation is not Causation"-bait. Is "number of reviews" a leading or trailing indicator of box office performance? Is "amount of marketing spend" a confounding factor?

the steering wheel laptop holder also had lots of pics of road catastrophes, etc.

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