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BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio
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Amazon Reviews for  BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio
Rating:
8,556 Ratings
3,830 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
3% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Dec 27, 2021
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 8,556 Ratings, we counted 3,830 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

Simple, self explanatory, perfect piece of equipment. The extra money ... [Go to full review]
Oct 28, 2014      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Least Trusted Reviews

Works as advertised. Good company. No problems. [Go to full review]
Aug 30, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (9 words)
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Brand Repeater (2 of 11 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 11 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


Analysis Details

Fail Rating Trend

  • 2%
  • Created over 9 days

We counted 3,830 reviews for this product over the span of 2,741 days, an average of 1.4 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 7 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 9 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 77 reviews were created on just 9 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.9 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 4.6. 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 created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.9
4.6


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Never-Verified Reviewers


14 of the 3,830 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.9 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 4.6. 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


3.9
4.6


Take-Back Reviewers


1,618 of the 3,830 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


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail 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:
64 reviews
(4.9/5)
41 reviews
(5.0/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
37 reviews
(4.8/5)


103 of the 3,830 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.6. 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 substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.9
4.6


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 152 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.6. 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.

4.6 average rating of deleted reviews

4.6


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Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


1,456 of the 3,830 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.6
4.6


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Warn Word Count Comparison

  • 32%
  • 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 1,224 reviews (or 32%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviews with overrepresented word groups and all other reviews isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 33%
  • 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 1261 reviewers (or 33%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.6
4.6


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

69 of the 3,830 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


4.2
4.6


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


1,189 of the 3,830 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


4.6
4.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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 4.3. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.

4.4 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.4
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease 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.