What’s to stop any malicious merchant from pruning unfavorable reviews? I trust moderated gossip channels with no financial stake in review sentiment over curated marketing advertisements masquerading as “customer reviews”.
Nothing and they do. I once wrote a review that the product caused me issues and it wasn’t safe to use and they didn’t publish it stating that it didn’t meet the website’s guidelines.
Leaving a review on the company website is pointless anyway.
What’s to stop any malicious merchant from pruning unfavorable reviews? I trust moderated gossip channels with no financial stake in review sentiment over curated marketing advertisements masquerading as “customer reviews”.
Nothing and they do. I once wrote a review that the product caused me issues and it wasn’t safe to use and they didn’t publish it stating that it didn’t meet the website’s guidelines.
I dunno, I disagree. I look at reviews and was, in fact, looking at reviews for the thing I wanted to also leave a review on.