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> Amazon for example lets vendors transfer good reviews to any other product by just replacing the product entry (name, description, price).

Huh. I wondered why often the reviews were for clearly a different product than the one in the description.




I bought a small wastebasket years ago that was the perfect shape, size, material, and finish. Lots of people agreed and it had really high ratings. Recently I wanted to find the official size to buy tighter fitting bags, maybe buy another wastebasket, only to find the listing now shows a meat slicer from a different company, with all the obvious trash can reviews still in place.




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