[kbenson]

> I am not 100% sure about this, I wish it were so.

Well, not everyone, but there's growing knowledge about it, and popular media podcasts that do whole episodes on it, etc.

> I will probably start seeing/finding bad products, so it may be that in a long period of time, I will start looking for alternatives other than Amazon and may attribute the image of "not high quality products" to Amazon as an e-commerce.

I think that depends on whether the ratings are for product quality or product accuracy/authenticness/amazon fulfillment issues.

> they actually have some long-term interest in allowing some fake(good) reviews and eliminating some real bad ones.

I think the important part of that is some. While it may be in Amazon's interest to manipulate the reviews to some degree, it's definitely not in their best interest to let people know or assume they or anyone else is doing so.