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Comment · Wed, December 21, 2016

I've seen the criticisms of testosterone boosters, but I'm curious how and why this test boosting product on Amazon has such great reviews? Over 600 reviews and the average is 4.6 out of 5.

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George_Beast · 14 points

This is the product I'm referring to The reviews fly in the face of everything I've seen about testosterone boosters. Is it possible the majority are fake and we should flag amazon and perhaps get it pulled, or is the product actually effective?

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happypiggy · 4 points

This is worrying. In a recent post /u/misteryouaresodumb commented that he'd been contacted by companies offering 100s of +ve reviews on Amazon for a price. Can you explain briefly how this tor thing works please? I'd like to write to Amazon customer service and ask wtf they're doing about this since it casts doubt on their entire review system.

I try to buy my supplements from well known brands and admit I have been suspicious of many 'never heard of' brands with 100s of +ve reviews. Especially when the well known brands like Life Extension or Solgar have hardly any, or sometimes none. Many of these reviews are marked "Verified Purchase" as well which makes it worse.

u/MisterYouAreSoDumb

No joke, at least 75% of Amazon reviews are compensated or outright fake, if not more. If you do not incentivize people for reviews, they do not review. Amazon doesn't care, as higher reviews products sell more; making them more money. Just look at Bulk Supplements on Amazon... You think thousands of people are reviewing their shit for free? The only way you can win on Amazon right now is to pay for reviews. It's made me so jaded about the entire system. It's shills and fake BS all the way down. I don't trust anything anymore. I've seen too much behind the scenes.

The rest of the internet is no better. It's all affiliate marketing and compensated in some way. Most sites refuse to list us as a vendor at all, unless we give them ridiculous percentages of sales from their links. Either we pay them, or we don't exist. Doesn't matter if we are a reliable vendor or not. Reliable to them means that they get paid. Just like all the fake news out there right now, compensated/fake reviews and articles outnumber legitimate ones by a significant amount. Long gone are the days when people just blogged about things they like to help others make good decisions. It's affiliate links or nothing now.

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