[jinushaun]

I've encountered so many defective or questionable products on Amazon lately. I basically have no trust what I receive any more. I even had issues returning items. I've started buying directly from companies, or offline in real stores more often.

[glup]

Same here (Prime customer for the last 6 years). Their drop-down menu for the reason for a return doesn't have an option for "is complete crap, but couldn't tell from the reviews because of all the Vine Voice and company shrills." I end up paying the shipping back, when I could almost always return the equivalent item to a brick-and-mortar store without a charge.

It seems to me that there are certain kinds of items where, like toasters and countertop dishwashers, where Amazon has a dozen lazily branded versions of the same (low quality, guaranteed to fail in a year) OEM product, no mid-range, and then 1-3 high-end ones for 5* the price of the low quality tier.

[rhexs]

Thank you. I've e-mailed support/Jeff asking for a way to disable Vine Voice reviews from showing up, but no dice yet.

Most of the Amazon reviews already game the system trying to get as many upvotes as possible (the latest trend is posting some 10 page meaningless "comparison" of X product and Y,Z,T competitors), but Vine Voice is even worse. Have yet to see anything under 4 stars.

[JohnTHaller]

I'd like a way to report items I don't buy as bogus/fake/spam to help eliminate all this noise: https://twitter.com/JohnTHaller/status/648883968201355264

[camel_gopher]

Me too, I bought a $1k cycling trainer that turned out to be defective. Bought my replacement directly from the manufacturer.

After returning that, I got a warning email from Amazon telling me to read the return policy. I think I was close to being banned.

I've also bought a number of items that turned out to be defective on arrival. Returned all of those.