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Verbatim DVD+RW 4.7GB 4X with Branded Surface - 30pk Spindle
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Review Hijacking Alert!
10 reviews are coming from a seemingly different product variation:

Verbatim 4 7 GB 1x 4x ReWritable Disc DVD RW 10 Disc Slim Jewel Case 94839 (Example Review )



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Amazon Reviews for  Verbatim DVD+RW 4.7GB 4X with Branded Surface - 30pk Spindle
Rating:
796 Ratings
805 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
2% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Jul 12, 2020
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 796 Ratings, we counted 805 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

they all worked well, and did their job. cases are ... [Go to full review]
Aug 4, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


Least Trusted Reviews

I have been usung these dvd+rw disc for about two ... [Go to full review]
Aug 17, 2004      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • One-Hit Wonder
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


24 of the 805 reviewers have only reviewed this product. The One-Hit Wonders have rated this product an average of 3.6 while the reviewers who have posted more than one review have rated this product an average of 4.5. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


3.6
4.5


Take-Back Reviewers


401 of the 805 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. While this is more Take-Back Reviewers than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.5
4.4


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 18 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.9. Even though deleted reviews don't affect the average rating, the fact that action was taken to delete reviews raises some red flags about the integrity of the reviews for the product as whole.

There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
  1. We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
  2. We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
  3. We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.
Read more about our Deleted Reviews test.

4.9 average rating of deleted reviews

4.9


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Warn Rating Trend

  • 5%
  • Created over 13 days

We counted 805 reviews for this product over the span of 5,890 days, an average of 0.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 13 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 42 reviews were created on just 13 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.5
4.5


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

36 of the 805 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.5
4.5


Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 0%
  • Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Pass Phrase Repetition
  • 0%
  • Used substantial repetitive phrases
0 of the 805 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:

2% also reviewed:
Amazon Prime Video by Amazon.com

2% also reviewed:
Fire by Amazon

Does not include products
from the same brand


124 of the 805 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.5
4.5


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 22%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 179 reviewers (or 22%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.5
4.5


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Reviewer Ease
The ease score is the average rating for all reviews that a given reviewer submits. The average ease score for reviewers of this product is 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.

4.4 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.4
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


118 of the 805 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.6
4.4


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Pass Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.

  • 0%
  • Admitted to receiving an incentive
We didn't detect any reviews that used language indicating they were incentivized.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.