What is your opinion about reviewing for a online shop?

[panda119]

As a seller, we need the customer's positive review to get recognition, we can get some informations and suggestions from your reviews, then we can improve our service and products according to your requirements. In order to encourage more people to give reviews,some merchants may offer some rewards to the positive reviews aout them, how do you think such kind of ideas? Do you want to have a try for such kind of things?

 

[CCericola]

I think buying good reviews is bad business ethics.

 

[panda119]

As a buyer, we will not save the negative to the shop or the product when we are unsatisfied for them, we will ignore our prise when we are prefer them, it is not "buying" good review, it is only say "thank you" for your prise.

 

[Josh66]

some merchants may offer some rewards to the positive reviews aout them

I have never actually seen a retailer do that...

Yes, many of them offer rewards (or enter you in a 'contest') for reviewing a product, but I have never seen any where the prize was dependent on the content of the review.


Sounds like a bad idea to me.


Rewards for reviews - yes, good idea. The content of the review should not be a factor though.

 

[Overread]

some merchants may offer some rewards to the positive reviews aout them

Rewards for reviews - yes, good idea. The content of the review should not be a factor though.

Most of the time the rewards for reviews are just to get buyers to use the review slot. Many people don't review on most sites when they buy things - they just buy and move on. I'd also put that down to most shops not having a very open access and view of the review system - Amazon appears to mostly have it right and gets a good view and balance of good and bad reviews.

 

[jritz]

To be quite honest, I don't like reviews online. Way to many people think they know what they are talking about especially when it comes to camera equipment. I tend to read the reviews of experienced photographers and their websites (not Ken Rockwell). Most of the reviews on online stores are garbage and have no merit to me and I'm sure the same goes for many on this forum and in the industry. Offering rewards probably will not matter to most as don't care enough because they know they will not be helpful.

 

[Josh66]

I agree that a lot of reviews aren't worth reading, and the person writing it shouldn't be reviewing anythig - but those kinds of reviews are usually pretty easy to spot...

I review most stuff I buy online... I wait till I've had it for a while though. What good is a review of a product that you've just barely taken out of the box?

 

[KmH]

Online reviews are almost worthless because of 'confirmation bias', the technical term for being a 'fan boy'.

Confirmation bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Josh66]

Online reviews are almost worthless because of 'confirmation bias', the technical term for being a 'fan boy'.

Confirmation bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't know enough other photographers to get hands-on reviews, so I think I'll stick with the online ones.

'Fan Boys' are easy to spot... Say there are 20 reviews of a particular product... Maybe 5 (sometimes more, lol) can be thrown out right off the bat, 5-10 might be insufficient to get a good idea about the product, and there will usually be at least a few solid reviews.

If you can't trust online reviews, what can you trust? The salesman at the store? :lmao:

I don't have enough money to just buy and sell crap and find out on my own if it's worth it. ...Thogh, sometimes that's what ends up happening.


There is more to 'online reviews' than just the review section on Amazon or B&H...

 

[KmH]

Key words in my post - "almost useless". I didn't say totally useless.

You have to separate the wheat from the chaff, and remember there is always a lot more chaff than wheat.

 

[Josh66]

I thought that was what I was saying the whole time...

 

[Overread]

You have to separate the wheat from the chaff, and remember there is always a lot more chaff than wheat.

Aye but the same is also true of official reviews as well - magazines, online publications etc.. can all be just as open to bias as independent people - and each can also exhibit fanboyism (though in the professional world its often retermed as accepting perks ).

It's all about deciding who is and who is not worth listening to

 

[panda119]

some merchants may offer some rewards to the positive reviews aout them

Rewards for reviews - yes, good idea. The content of the review should not be a factor though.

Most of the time the rewards for reviews are just to get buyers to use the review slot. Many people don't review on most sites when they buy things - they just buy and move on. I'd also put that down to most shops not having a very open access and view of the review system - Amazon appears to mostly have it right and gets a good view and balance of good and bad reviews.

Thank you for your reply and suggestion, welcome to pickegg.com to have a shopping experience.

 

[panda119]

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[sandersjessica]

some merchants may offer some rewards to the positive reviews aout them

I have never actually seen a retailer do that...

Yes, many of them offer rewards (or enter you in a 'contest') for reviewing a product, but I have never seen any where the prize was dependent on the content of the review.


Sounds like a bad idea to me.


Rewards for reviews - yes, good idea. The content of the review should not be a factor though.

[FONT=&quot]Yes I agree. Rewards are offered just for reviewing but the content may be either positive or negative. Doesn’t matters. [/FONT]