[unloco]

I don't find the fake reviews that important when I make a purchase. I know they are there. I know 95% of my Amazon search results are absolute trash. You get what you pay for. If you don't do your research, and think a $50 speaker from HWAROMA is going to be as good as a $250 Celestion because of reviews, that's kinda on you. Believe it or not, some people will want that deal because that $50 speaker might get them through a show in hard times.

You do have to do research on everything you buy. User reviews are still a part of that research, just not nearly as much.

If you google info on what you want, you KNOW at least the top 25 results are all paid for in one way or another, probably more than that now.

Don't expect a corporation to watch your back. Amazon has made clear they give NO F's about the average human using their services, as long as they keep using it.

[welder]

It's common to receive a counterfeit brand-name product from Amazon, because anyone can fulfill a product by sending it to an Amazon warehouse. Lot's of counterfeits make it in. Netflix even has a docuseries about it[1]. Research doesn't help there, since you're getting a counterfeit instead of the quality product you researched. Yelp is even worse than Amazon, with reviews tied into their business model[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMPdsKvhCOo (Netflix's Broken about Amazon counterfeits)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-ULQrlx9s (Yelp Billion Dollar Bully Trailer)