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I found a few more verified but not many. The really fishy part is I clicked thru to see all of a reviewer's reviews, and of course 9 of 10 of the non verified purchases have this as their only review ever entered in the system... its mostly an astroturf campaign, and not a very well run one.

The only non-astroturf non-verified review I could find was a guy who was VERY complimentary toward a bluetooth headphone from three years ago. Every other non-verified review smells astroturf-y.

I was thinking how to run an astroturf campaign like this on amazon reviews and I figured it was too expensive, you need herds of expensive prepaid CC to order a competitors product, then you need a botnet like herd of fake accounts to create a review history, then the botnet like herd needs to order and trash talk the competitors product, it all gets very expensive. However, it turns out all you need is a throwaway email address and solve a captcha and you've got a decent PR campaign, till someone notices.

I'm not implying all the buzz is astroturfing, merely around 90% of it. There are, I'm sure, DOA machines out there, just not many.

I have no dog in the fight in that I'm not planning to buy either, at least not planning to right now.



...or maybe they never had a reason to post a review until paying hundreds of dollars for a DOA console for which the company is apparently not being very accommodating?


A verified review is when amazon confirm the person bought it from Amazon. Meaning they definitely paid for the product.


True!




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