I’m not sure if this is just me, but it drives me nuts when I see someone answer a question (for example in the questions section on an amazon product page) to just say that they don’t know or they give an unrelated answer.
For example:
Q: Do these headphones support bluetooth and wired connections?
A: I’m not sure, but my grandson loves these!
The same goes for posts which ask a question on other sites or reviews complaining about a product, despite it doing exactly as advertised. Idk, maybe I should have posted this on unpopular opinion.
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Yes, it’s enormously annoying. Steam reviews also generally suck. Especially those with the checkmark style forms.
I’m getting sick of all the copypasta and joke reviews like “no one’s probably going to see this so I’ll just say I’m gay.” There is no way people find all these overused memes funny or the ASCII art.
I got one for ya. I was changing the oil in my fiancée’s car and wanted to know how to clear the “maintenance required” light so I looked it up online. First result was of course someone asking the same question to some sort of car forum. The top response? “That is something the dealership can do for you”.
Motherfucker if I wanted the dealership to do it for me, I would have had them change my oil in the first God damn place! Jesus fuck that response just ruined my day. Utterly useless waste of kilobytes. Luckily the response right under his had the answer I was looking for. This happened like a month ago and I’m still pissed off about it.
Yes! The amount of times I have looked something up (back in the days of Reddit) to find a post with tons of comments saying “did you google it first before asking here?”. Obviously I looked other places first else I wouldn’t be checking here.
I know exactly what you mean. I also like snow forts. I haven’t made a good snow fort since I was like 12. Pointless answers suck
I like turtles
Best turtle I ever saw might have been named Bob for all I know. Or Susan.
Also included in this are reviews on things that are not the product - I remember seeing one that was like “great product, but I’m giving it one star because it was delivered late and the delivery driver was rude” - and reviews based on the buyer’s own failings, like “I didn’t read the assembly instructions and put it together wrong, and then it didn’t work properly, so I’m giving it a negative review”.
there’s a whole sub red dit for this, AmazonAnswers. Very entertaining when it’s not you shopping
Hopefully this appears on Lemmy.
It’s because a lot of boomers think everything they see on the internet is sent personally to them. Took me years (literal years) to explain to my mom that someone’s Facebook status was not that person sending her a message.
Most don’t even realize the product questions are automated. They think amazon is personally asking them so they feel obliged to respond, even if they don’t know the answer.
To be fair, Amazon does personally send people e-mails with those product questions and it’s formulated as you specifically being asked…
“A: I don’t know, I haven’t tried it yet.”
That one drives me almost as crazy as 1-star “Best product ever” and 5-star “Didn’t even work” reviews. Sheesh.
Definitely not an unpopular opinion, but I think it just comes down to Amazon specifically directing those questions (by email or prompts on the website) to people who have bought the product. And some people just dutifully answer the prompt without realizing their answer is going to be published in the Q&A section.
Haven’t tried it yet 2*s
Haven’t seen this before, but my step-cousin said the same thing once!
It annoys me when people leave a review because what they bought arrived damaged. That’s a review on the shitty delivery, not on the item itself. Just send it back and get a replacement.
Even if it wasn’t shipping and was just packaged broken, it’s still 100% worth seeing if they’ll replace it.
Whether they do or don’t replace it would be more valuable of a review.
Amazon gets these dumb answers because it emails buyers with the questions. So Joe Blow gets an email saying, “will this fit my XYZ?” and he answers, “I don’t know, but it works ok on my ABC”. It makes the Q&A section mostly useless.
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Probably helps the page show up in search results for
will [product] fit my ABC?too.Hey I used to get those and answered almost exactly like that. I have not gotten a question after I got into a review argument about how I was being disrespectful yet I never really agreed to answer questions for Amazon’s customers…(I probably did but those tos terms are always bullshit)
I’m sure Amazon blacklisted me from getting those questions because of my answers.
Also…9/10 times the questions literally made slno sense, were beyond dumb, or could be answered by reading the actual product page.
Yep. It’s mind boggling that they still even do this.
The other thing I hate about reviews is when they use the same review page for different SKUs of the same product. So for example you’ll be reading a review of what you think is a 2 litre plastic container because that’s what you clicked on. The review will say something like ‘it’s too big for the fridge’. Meanwhile the review was actually for the 5 litre version of the same product. So then you have to scroll through a million reviews to find the relevant ones, with no way to filter them.
At least with that example, the products are related. Amazon lets sellers replace listings with completely different items - new name, picture, and description. So you’ll find a scam 64GB USB drive that’s pretending to be 1TB with hundreds of positive reviews, but when you read those reviews, you realize they’re for the plastic fidget toy that shared the item number previously.
I totally get it and I agree, however this phenomenon is also exacerbated by the way they phrase the emails encouraging you to answer such questions. “Can you help xxx?” Of course I can… and if I can’t, I would still try…
Ik what you mean, it’s just annoying to see all the review sections/ question sections filled with useless garbage.
Amazon used to send the question to you in a very weird way, Almost like th person was DMing you, so people would reply (maybe to the email?) In an honest way.
I took me getting one of those emails to understand.
Still makes me mad, but at amazon instead
Many of the online stores I shop at have offers like “leave a review and you’ll get a coupon for your next purchase”, so they get a lot of pointless reviews like “It arrived. Didn’t try the product yet. 5 stars”
I find that there’s a very strong correlation between the average age of the customer base and the uselessness of the reviews.
