[intopieces]

I'm curious about your product review diligence. Mainly: why do you bother? I stopped around 2015 when I started to sense that I was shouting into a void. Now I don't give any feedback, ever, not even stars. I either keep the item or return it; that's about as far as I'm willing to go in terms of being unpaid to provide a signal to the producers of items.

[programmertote]

I bother because I felt like these products were particularly bad and yet have good ratings. So I wanted others to avoid the same fate as I faced. But yeah, generally, I will stop providing ratings after these two incidents. It could be the beginning of Amazon's slow downfall if they don't fix it and IF another rival can consistently compete with them on the quick shipping front.