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3M SandBlaster Flexible Finishing Pad
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Amazon Reviews for  3M SandBlaster Flexible Finishing Pad
Rating:
28 Ratings
18 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
57% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Nov 12, 2016
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 28 Ratings, we counted 18 Reviews available on their site.
Note: While we've examined all 18 reviews, our reviewer analysis is based on a sample of 3 reviewers.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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

Most Trusted Reviews

These sanding pads work ok for VERY light sanding.Don't expect ... [Go to full review]
Apr 15, 2009      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)


Least Trusted Reviews

I grabbed some of these in various grits to have ... [Go to full review]
Jul 28, 2011      
10% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)


Analysis Details

Fail 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


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Fail Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


3 of a random sample of 3 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Repeaters which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


5.0
N/A


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


2 of a random sample of 3 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


5.0
5.0


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 0%
  • Created on high-volume days
We counted 18 reviews for this product over the span of 2,505 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. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

3 of the 18 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


5.0
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 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 18 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 Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders

We didn't detect a substantial amount of One Hit Wonders.

Never-Verified Reviewers

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Never-Verified Reviewers.

Take-Back Reviewers

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Take-Back Reviewers.

Single-Day Reviewers

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Single-Day Reviewers.

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 4.5, 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.

4.5 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.5
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.