No More Fake Reviews - So Who’s Gonna Tell Us What To Buy?

@realgoodsound +1

All it takes is one or two or three anecdotal accounts of knowing someone who knows someone who's confessed to receiving something for something and it's off to the conspiracy races. 

It actually happened a lot back in the days of print so it's become something like a Sasquatch sighting. Toss in the internet and everyone's in on something and can't be trusted. 

This had been discussed to death with the qualifier being getting to know your reviewer and ascertaining if his/her tastes align with yours. It doesn't need to be as deep and wide as some make it out to be. Times change but morals and ethics don't, as much. What used to be verboten is now normal (as a courtesy) so the values needed to do an honest review can still occur. 

@larsman +1, 

It's so simple a way to do things but there has to be something to complain about.

All the best,
Nonoise

Look at my Subscriber count in over 5 years of YT "fame". I get "some" free stuff but I ALWAYS declare that I am an unpaid Schill for certain brands. And when I'm given "an offer I cannot refuse". I disclose it in my Videos but never the price I paid.

https://www.youtube.com/@joeygsaudiochannel3972/videos

I’m not into fake reviews but the FTC can barely do its day job. How about let’s make sure that we have competition in grocery stores before we worry about what freebie someone gets for posting their whatever online.

Sorry... I just haven’t been a fan of the recent FTC. What with wading into employment law and now nanny-ing consumers.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. 

PLEASE,FAKE NEWS & REVIEWS PERMEATE our society..From hamburgers to Presidential elections,lobbyist & big $ corporations manipulate,CENSOR & LIE to the world every single day!!!
This will change NOTHING!!!

@oddiofyl

If I can’t see it and hear it in person I am generally not interested. Lack of in home demo or decent return policy is usually a deal breaker for me.

 

Same here.