Reviews for Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers
Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers by Firefox
Review by Celtice
Rated 2 out of 5
by Celtice, 3 months agoWeirdly, there were a number of products with fewer than a couple hundred reviews (books) that were graded terribly but the reviews, upon scanning through them, were actually clearly real, and the majority of them were obviously from people who had bought AND read the book. So, I'm not loving the idea of small authors being totally bombed by this extension.
Additionally, while I was running the extension on a product that hadn't had its reviews scanned through before, I accidentally closed the tab. I was hoping to just restart the process but the extension had already given the product a grade! That's a serious flaw honestly. It's not a fair grade at all.
So while I started out enjoying the extension well enough, my trust in it degraded too much to justify using it anymore. If you choose to use it, just be careful with items with fewer reviews than most popular products---you might have to give them a scan to verify the grade given, which defeats the purpose of the extension.
Additionally, while I was running the extension on a product that hadn't had its reviews scanned through before, I accidentally closed the tab. I was hoping to just restart the process but the extension had already given the product a grade! That's a serious flaw honestly. It's not a fair grade at all.
So while I started out enjoying the extension well enough, my trust in it degraded too much to justify using it anymore. If you choose to use it, just be careful with items with fewer reviews than most popular products---you might have to give them a scan to verify the grade given, which defeats the purpose of the extension.