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ACDelco GT261 GM Original Equipment Fuel Tank Cap
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Amazon Reviews for  ACDelco GT261 GM Original Equipment Fuel Tank Cap
Rating:
377 Ratings
329 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
16% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Feb 26, 2017
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 377 Ratings, we counted 329 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
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Word Count Comparison
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

While it didn't solve my car's evap code, it was ... [Go to full review]
Dec 24, 2016      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)


Least Trusted Reviews

I bought this cap 5 months ago, and it has ... [Go to full review]
Aug 22, 2013      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)


Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Never-Verified Reviewers


1 of the 329 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 2.0 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 4.7. 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 never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


2.0
4.7


Take-Back Reviewers


106 of the 329 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail 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 4.5, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. 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.

4.5 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.5
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Fail Word Count Comparison

  • 28%
  • Have an overrepresented word count

In the graph above, we can see the distribution of review word counts for this product and the expected distribution for this category. We see the following 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 93 reviews (or 28%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.9, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.7. 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 reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.9
4.7


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 2 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 5. 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.

5.0 average rating of deleted reviews

5.0


Show distribution of deleted reviews

Warn Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.

Common Phrases in Reviews:
23 reviews
8 reviews
6 reviews
7 reviews
5 reviews
6 reviews
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Common Phrases in Titles:
9 reviews
22 reviews
12 reviews
7 reviews
5 reviews
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67 of the 329 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 1%
  • Created over 1 day

We counted 329 reviews for this product over the span of 2,248 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 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 3 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


5.0
4.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

5 of the 329 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


4.4
4.7


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

Does not include products
from the same brand


46 of the 329 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


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 30%
  • 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 98 reviewers (or 30%) 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


4.7
4.8


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


16 of the 329 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


4.9
4.7


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.


1 of the 329 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


5.0
4.7


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.