05-24-11, 10:33 PM | |
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Another thing to watch out for with Amazon reviews is that some companies ask Amazon or bully reviewers to delete negative reviews, saying they misrepresent the product or something such, leading to lopsided representations of 4- and 5-star reviews. This has been done for a number of exercise videos, including videos by BodyWisdomMedia and Ravi Singh & Ana Brett. Now, it's easy to argue that some of the reviews that only say something about how Ana's doing yoga in her underwear or that doing yoga is bad for you or things like that are questionable and Amazon has every right to delete them, but some of the people who have had reviews deleted reposted them, and while their reviews were negative, they weren't inappropriate or bad reviews because they reflected the user's actual experiences ("This type of yoga didn't work for me and made me irritable instead of relaxed," "The electronic music's weird, and they didn't edit out the instructor's mistakes in the voiceover," and things like that).
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05-25-11, 01:19 AM | ||
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I have had my reviews censored. I've had the word "butt" deleted in a reference to Global Rides' stated policy of producing virtual cycling DVDs in which the user didn't have to look at people's "sweaty butts". It's ridiculous to censor the word "butt" in a review of a workout DVD, when many workout DVDs contain that word in the title. I've also had a reference to "Gay Gasper" replaced with "[...] Gasper", which is beyond ridiculous. I think I may delete all my reviews from Amazon, update them and post them here.
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05-25-11, 09:04 AM | ||
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I wrote a review for a book a friend of mine wrote once on Amazon. I didn't like the book (thought it was useless, actually), but wrote a good review since it was a friend. I felt icky afterwards. I figure most of the glowing reviews are written by friends/classmates/family (especially the ones that are specific such as "Mindy Cooper, a registered Dietician and a friend of animals, created a 29 minute warm up with dynamic range of motion to get your joints properly prepared for the work ahead." Whatever, not-so-a-layperson!).
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05-25-11, 03:19 PM | |
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What would having reviewers log in accomplish? It's all anonymous and people create fake profiles to troll forums what's to say they wouldn't do the same? If the software allows ISP bans then yes they can ban the ISP, unless they're using a program to overcome that. But if they don't care that bogus reviews are being posted I doubt they'd care about someone setting up fake profiles & not banning the ISPs.
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05-25-11, 05:51 PM | ||
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05-25-11, 06:10 PM | ||
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But yeah, since they clearly don't care about the integrity of their review system, that's not going to happen any time soon.
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05-26-11, 07:45 AM | |
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The problem with those 2 reviews on Collage is not that they're humorous. The problem is that there's reason to suspect that the writers never viewed the videos. If that isn't a violation of Collage's policy on reviews, then I think they need to revise their policy.
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05-26-11, 10:27 AM | |
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I read the forum and someone said we "...need to lighten up"! Normally I would agree. However if you have rules for reviews but then don't follow through, what's the point? It's obvious the person didn't do the workout and I suspect it's the same person that typed both reviews. When you have several instances of this, why should collage be valued for the reviews they offer? There are many instances when reading the reviews you can tell the person hasn't done the workout; heck some even state that. Then you get phony ones like this just for giggles, the violations of copying/pasting reviews, and instructor-directed reviews. I know collage is a paid sponsor of the site, but IMO, they lack dignity in this department. And worse, they seem to be ok with that. They pride themselves on customer service. To me, this is a part of CS.
Hmmmmm....
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