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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Pro 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive with Module STAD500400
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Amazon Reviews for  Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Pro 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive with Module STAD500400
Rating:
15 Ratings
15 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
33% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

I've had good backup service with these Seagate external drives, ... [Go to full review]
Jun 7, 2014      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)


Least Trusted Reviews

You buy the product with software, but then after a ... [Go to full review]
Feb 12, 2015      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.8)


Analysis Details

Fail Unverified Purchases

2 of the 15 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 1.0 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


1.0
4.3


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.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


11 of the 15 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. The Take-Back Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.6 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history have rated this product an average of 2.0. 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 take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.6
2.0


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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

20% also reviewed:
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20% also reviewed:
Product Unavailable by

Does not include products
from the same brand


9 of the 15 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 3.0. 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 reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.4
3.0


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 20%
  • Created over 1 day

We counted 15 reviews for this product over the span of 1,723 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 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 an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.7
3.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn 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 15 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. While we could not find a statistically significant difference between the average rating of incentivized reviews and non-incentivized reviews, the presences of at least one incentivized review indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they had received an incentive to post a review.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


5.0
3.8


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

Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


7 of the 15 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.6
3.3


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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



4 of the 15 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the these reviews and reviews without substantial repetitive phrases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.5
3.6


Read more about our Phrase Repetition 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 Reviewer Participation

  • 0%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
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, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.

4.0 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.0
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Deleted Reviews
  • 0
  • Reviews have been deleted
We have not discovered any deleted reviews for this product.

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.