ReviewMeta Phone Apps
June 13th, 2019Tired of copying and pasting URLs from Amazon into ReviewMeta.com? Get our FREE lightweight app to help you check ReviewMeta reports for any product on Amazon without having to copy or paste another URL! After installing the app, simply browse Amazon on your phone (as you normally would), using either your web browser or the Amazon […]
Mobile App Privacy Policy
May 24th, 2019Mobile App Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 24, 2019 and is compliant with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This Privacy Policy is available free of charge anytime at https://reviewmeta.com/blog/app-privacy-policy/. Please take a moment to read and understand this Privacy Policy and contact us with any questions. When […]
Moving Away from Transparency: Amazon No Longer Displaying All Reviews
April 25th, 2019It’s not often that shoppers read past page 500 of the reviews for a product, but Amazon seems to have recently decided that nobody can, even if they wanted to. Here’s an example: the 500th page of reviews for a product that has 22,000+ reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Tobias-Colon-Day-Quick-Cleanse/product-reviews/B00ISAPPLI/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_next_500?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&sortBy=recent&pageNumber=500 This looks totally fine. We scroll to the bottom to try […]
Amazon Flooded with Millions of Fake Reviews in 2019
March 28th, 2019Key findings: Amazon has seen a massive spike in Unverified reviews (reviews without the “Verified Purchaser” badge) in the last few months. Of the 1.8 million Unverified reviews posted in March 2019, 99.6% are 5-star. In comparison, during 2017-2018, we saw an average of ~300k unverified reviews per month, only 75% of which were […]
The Modern Horror of Shopping for Phone Chargers on Amazon
March 19th, 2019I’ve been spending some time on Twitter, monitoring complaints about fake Amazon reviews, and noticed an interesting trend. I’m seeing a lot of customers complaining about cheap electronics with thousands of unverified 5-star reviews that are all written on (or close to) the same day. I figured that these Twitter users were just discovering some […]
FTC Issues Fine of $12.8 Million to Seller on Amazon over Fake Reviews
February 27th, 2019Finally, some justice! Well, sorta. According to the official announcement, they won’t have to pay the $12,845,724 fine if they first pay $50,000 and “catch up” on any unpaid taxes. However, if they’re caught lying about their taxes, the whole amount will come due. There’s a few more terms of the settlement. My favorite is this: […]
Why isn’t the Adjusted Rating lower?
January 23rd, 2019This is becoming a common question, so I figured I’d address it: If a product has unnatural reviews, why isn’t the ReviewMeta adjusted rating much lower than the rating displayed on Amazon? 1. Fake Reviews does NOT mean it’s a bad product. First off, just because a product has fake reviews (keep in mind that we’re looking […]
ReviewMeta’s “Hidden” Features for Power Users
December 12th, 2018So the other day, I’m looking at a report. I accidentally click on the Adjusted Rating, and to my surprise, it changes. It took me a few seconds before I remembered that months (or years) ago, I added a little feature that would allow visitors to see an extra decimal place on the adjusted […]
Top 10 Black Friday Products on ReviewMeta from 2017: Where are they now?
November 19th, 2018There’s no way to avoid it. “Shopping season” is here. Consumers are told they will save heaps of money by buying a bunch of junk. Let’s go back a year and see what junk we bought last time. In 2017, we saw a spike in ReviewMeta.com traffic on Black Friday (November 24) and a much […]
Publish an Official Brand Response on ReviewMeta
October 27th, 2018We understand that brands should be able to publicly respond to their reports, and that’s why we have created the Brand Response forum. Brands will be free to say (almost) whatever they want – disclose their review collection process, engage in a healthy debate about the in’s and out’s of the algorithm, or maybe just […]