[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