Stiftung Warentest Undercover: So brazen reviews on Amazon or Google can be manipulated

The testers have signed up incognito at seven agencies, the Top reviews offer and dozens of reviews posted. These are the results. 3 stars are not enough

Stiftung Warentest Undercover: So brazen reviews on Amazon or Google can be manipulated

The testers have signed up incognito at seven agencies, the Top reviews offer and dozens of reviews posted. These are the results.

3 stars are not enough

To find out, whether the agencies honest, are also interested in critical reviews written by the testers is also a mediocre 3-star reviews. The result: 63 percent of the agencies involved, in the case of each of the fourth criticism, the testers were instructed to assign four or five stars. In the case of 21 percent of the testers were able to try out the product once, you should rate, for example, on the basis of photos.

Private Amazon account so that assessment really looks like

a prerequisite for the agencies was often a private Amazon account. The Tester should be able to order the products, so buying from Amazon - for the majority of the reviews was written will be marked as "verified purchase". After the assessment, the Tester then received the money for the product refunded.

rich it is as a Fake product evaluators

by the Way: the rich man is not with the Writing of Fake reviews. "Time we got 0.01 dollars per job, often we were allowed to keep the goods or cheaper to buy," write the Tester. You can, however, affect which products are.

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tables are turned: it's So easy to Top reviews buy

According to the Writing of Fake reviews, turned the Foundation's test to the skewer. Through an Internet dealer, you ordered with twelve of these agencies, a total of 120 good reviews for its Google profile.

Good rating, and it costs 10 Euro

All of the agencies offered a Top rating for about 10 euros. She was sold, according to the Stiftung Warentest in the package of, for example, 10 reviews for 99 Euro.

"Frighteningly real"

The Internet retailer has received 49 ratings, 11 disappeared again. They have probably been exposed to Google as a fake and deleted. The trumped-up reviews sounded "shockingly real," writes Stiftung Warentest. "A father gave an enthusiastic account of how good the offer arrives at his daughter. Reviewers in Detail on services that they had never claimed."

the conclusion of the testers: "Every credible-sounding Review can be manipulated."

5 tips on how to read reviews properly

The Stiftung Warentest gives five tips on how consumers Fake can detect reviews:

1. After defects

search for read many positive reviews: and compare the negative reviews. If multiple users complain about the same error, this may be an indication of a weak point.

2. Enter keywords

Using the search function (Ctrl + F) on your PC, you can search for key words, for example, to "broken" or "defective", if you want to find out how long a product has worked.

3. Reviewer

to check, Click on the users to rate a product. Have been assessed in the last week, for example, ten mobile phones, or only 5 star awarded, it may be a normal consumer.

4. Pattern

If many of the positive reviews pile up, or a bad suddenly a lot of positive consequences, was cheated may be.

5. Reviews hide

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Date Of Update: 24 June 2020, 09:26
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