How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon | WSJ
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- Chinese sellers resort to a wide range of cunning techniques to manipulate product listings on Amazon and boost sales. WSJ’s Jon Emont investigates their strategies and explains how consumers can detect sham listings. Image: Crystal Tai. Video: Clément Bürge/WSJ
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Interview him as entrepreneur. Report him as scammer.
What a double face news channel
They are the same thing in China.
I support it. They are scammers so who cares.
Low key interrogation 😁
Bull Bear calm down mr communist troll
Bull Bear The interviewer didn't know he was a scammer until he interviewed him as an entrepreneur. You people are as dumb as dumb gets
Chinese - scammer
American - marketing and B2C optimization consultant
😂
@Watchdog You say scams, I say a weak regulatory environment and limited legal recourse. And if you think 'murika is above scams howabout I register you for an online marketing course at Trump University. Here have some Flint water and opiod painkillers while we fill out the form
Martin Ersatz Because there are actual rules and regulations in America that go hard after offenders, something which the authoritarian government of China seems to lack. That’s not a defense of the scummy tactics businesses in America conduct their operations, but it seems China allows exploitation to a much higher degree.
@@black__bread Chinese don't even care about the Chinese, sad
@@hizboo7670 U think American care about the other Americans?
I didn't realize how "dirty" the business practices were just to get ahead of competitors. Everything can easily be faked. What a scary world we live in now.
its even worse then that. china in the last 30 years has done many things. fake web pages, fake bar codes, fake tags, shipping parts from china to some other country then to destination to avoid made in china label. buying a test product dont work to. buy the time you buy 1 product and test it. some shady entity already stole theyre intellectual property and is making a knock off causing your legal and proper business to die in a matter of 2 weeks.
@Drakilicious that would be stupid. what would the point of that be?
scary world? this is only China, i trust most sellers from most countries except China, Pakistan, and India with a grain of salt.
CAPITALISM makes people stupid mindless money chasers
Yeah the sanlu mike, it's only happends in china
Funny the chinese guy speaks english as perfectly as the israeli guy and they still need to put the subtitles
we all noticed this, it was their way of "othering" him. that shade is as bright as the white dude's bald head.
He is obviously not Chinese, mostly likely an US Asian.
Fanjin Zeng he would still be ethically chinese. also, that doesn’t change the fact that they put subtitles on him when he can be very easily understood
@@fanjin.z Let's be real. That guy is definitely born and raised in China. We can clearly hear the accent, and please don't think it's a compliment when you say that one person is Asain American. You're just being stupid. We should give him credit for studying English so hard.
You're being shallow here what about the people with hearing illness? Or people whose listening in English is not good so they need subtitles?
Howard's English is better than the narrator. Why do we need subtitles for him but not the narrator?
But it isn't.
dizzy6745 What about the guy from isreal
coz he is not white
Simply because even though poor Howard is willing to smear China and Chinese's reputations on WSJ's behalf, they still don't view him as their equal. He is still an lowly immigrant in their eyes, who has unintelligible English and requires subtitles in order to be understood. Just because Howard has an American accent, doesn't consitute him being their equal!
Obviously it's for the blind viewers.
These tactics are not unique to China. They are used globally.
No one said it's unique to China.
I think America’s proved to be easily manipulated specifically after trump’s win.
then how will the news be entertaining without a bogeyman?
India is the 2nd faker
The tactics are nothing new. But the scale is very different. In China (and India too) the labour cost is so cheap and there are hundred of thousands of people working full time to create fake accounts, making fake sales and fake reviews, for very very low prices. It's a pity this video did not show those people in action. It's actually amazing to watch how a huge team of people each controlling tens of mobile devices and working in high efficiency. You cannot fight that by trying to be a humble honest online seller.
As a web-redactor, I've been asked tons of times to do fake Amazon reviews. And none of them was coming from China, this is something sellers from the whole world are doing and they also often ask local redactors to do it.
Quick Fix - Thought Provoking Videos as a web designer who knows hard numbers in China people do ask for fake reviews in amazon people don’t understand people see amazon as a bank
@@andyk192 And you don't suppose any other foreign person could be asking for them? Just curious.
Well, another US propaganda for trade war with China
What is a web redactor? I've searched Google and nothing.
Quick Fix - Thought Provoking Videos: Thanks 🙏🏽
Amazon Rule number one: only read 3 stars reviews, these are the most honest and real ones
I typically leave 4 star reviews if I really liked the product, 5 only if it did more than I expected.
ehh, solid state of mind but not always true my friend
The real way is to see the type of language the reviewer uses and if it is repetitive. Fake reviews sometimes say the same thing, but try to put it in different words. If they make multiple reviews within the same day (and only that day) they are probably (most likely) fake.
Idk they seem to have figured this out. I look for repetition and merits that no one cares about. Like, who says “the color really matches my decor” when talking about a speaker? I just disregard all products that have any fake reviews, although it really is getting rampant.i hate this, everything is a fckn trap nowadays. It’s gross. BE RICH AND SHOP LOCAL YALL
@@kaeyynn let’s say I was looking at toasters - if a review would look just as real if it was describing a pair of shoes, it is fake.
I have decided to not buy items when a reviewer points out something about the product I did not notice or misleading language in the description.
In general, Amazon is doing a pretty effective job of managing the reviews, at least for the items I buy.
So basically....
White-consumer
Chinese-manufacture
Indian-customer service
Yeeeea
SEA/Vietnam etc. Landfills
Black-kfc
@@Coolence_ nah it's Popeye's
And the whites become cheated, and the whites own industry is closing down.
Why do only the Chinese speakers have subtitles when they speak? The dude from Israel had a stronger accent than that Chinese entrepreneur.
Because he was made in China ? 😁
How many isrealis own shares in WSJ?? Follow the money 💰💰💵💶💶💸📫💲
because people that read lips would never 'guess' what he was saying. You know deaf people.
@@sethwagoner3430 nah
WSJ is a zionist......
It's funny there is cc when Chinese guy speaks and not when Israel guy lol
Poor jews right?
political correctness？this story needs a fu-manchu style negative character，the jew? come on ,dudes, u guys know the DEAL......
Yeah and the Israeli guy even has more of an accent
Who cares, why does the Chinese have Ane English names, is that one of his scam
Even more funny when the Chinese guy has no Chinese accent.
This just makes me not want to buy from
Amazon and just walk into the store instead.
Do it.
@who knows? lol
@who knows? 😂😂
Asif Sarfaraz Yes and soon there will be no stores period.
Hubby and I made a cautious decision 3 years ago to limit our shopping on Uncle Jeff Bezos store. We probably purchase only 3 things a year and that is because it was not a available at any of the brick/mortar stores. Even during the beginning of the pandemic, we refused to purchase from Uncle Jeff.
asian man spoke more eloquently than the israeli guy but the former needed subtitles, dafuq.
I think it's due to the background noise. :)
@@salenow8866c'mon now, who we kidding
Americans hate and fear China but love Israelis
MUH OUTRAGE!!!! INTERNAT BAD! *ANGRY NPC NOISES*
That profile picture🤣🤣🤣 OF COURSE!!!! god he's such a leftist tool, soy runs through his veins
So why does the Chinese guy with a fluent American accent need subtitles and the Israeli guy not need subtitles when he clearly has a thicker accent. Smh.
I like the Israeli accent, its sounds really thicker
btw I'm Israeli
@@A0pplePapple There's nothing wrong with Chinese accents.
i never said there was something wrong with the Chinese accents...
"We hired a Chinese subtitle guy and by golly, we're gonna use him even if the Chinese guy's English is great!"
Good point, the Chinese dude spoke good English. That's why I didn't even notice the subtitles, only noticed it from your comment.
I sold on amazon for a year and a bit before I quit. I had the review scam and someone bought all my products and returned them after Christmas( which cost me money per item). I contacted amazon daily for like a a month and nothing was done I packed up paid my losses and now have over 1000 pairs of headphone sitting at home.
But why did the person buy them all just to return it later
@@cutielol0 maybe for an event, and return it after used so there almost no cost spent.
@@cutielol0 To kill competitions.
Irfan Agoes Mursalin so true 😂
@@Irfan-pr1lu If you do it too often, they will ban you.
Amazon seller here. My business was destroyed by the kind of attack from competitors described in this video. Amazon does not respond to these cases and never took any retribution against the company attacking me. I am no longer selling on Amazon because there is no protection for legitimate sellers and fraud is the norm across the entire platform.
Westerners should stick to independent Western companies. Otherwise, you all are just feeding this beast intent on your own destructions.
amazon fba is dead since 2017.. thats why all these proclaimed gurus sell 500 courses
I swear I think Bezos got rich because China is giving him bunch of money
What do you do now for passive income then?
@@movinon1242 You literally have no idea what your talking about
Amazon: *Pays employees pitiful wages, keeping them desparate and destitute*
Amazon Employees: *take bribes*
Amazon: *shocked pikachu meme*
Let me simplify it:
Humanity: *uses capitalism*
Humanity: *suffers the consequences: corruption, artificial inefficiencies, artificial scarcity, etc.*
Humanity: *shocked pikachu meme*
Pitiful? Please do tell me more which of their competitiors pays more. 15/h at least..i don't see a problem there.
@@Alexa27396 Someone using Cyrillic accuses capitalism of corruption, artificial inefficiencies and artificial scarcity. Ironic! Not from Ukraine, are you, where millions of people were starved to death by the very corruption you claim for capitalism.
The world has fewer people in poverty now than ever before due to capitalism.
@@SBCBears
1. Cyrillic - ironic? 😊
2. I don't "accuse", I know exactly what I'm talking about. If you don't realize that collaboration based society is a much better, more efficient than a competition based one, you should research more into capitalism, anarcho-communism, Natural Law Resource Based Economy.
3. On poverty, poverty around the world actually is going up (what a surprise, when private corporations replace humans with robots whenever it becomes profitable for them to do so, leaving the humans without means to subsistence, right?):
*Capitalism HASN'T Lifted Millions from Poverty - Point from Socialist's Debate with Sargon and Co.* by Hakim
Cheers! ✌
How is $15 an hour pitiful wages?
I very rarely trust third party sellers of Amazon. Many many of them are so obvious scams especially with flash USB drives and SD cards. Even when an item is sold by a third party seller and delivered by Amazon that doesn't mean that the Amazon has the knowledge or the responsibility to check what is exactly delivering.
I trust and love Amazon when something is sold and delivered by Amazon.
eBay is by far better with individual sellers.
That is the whole point of selling on Amazon is that other sellers can sell not now with Amazon trying to cut them out by making their own stuff.
Responsibility is something that you cannot deny that they have.
Until now, I have never had a good enough experience with searching via Amazon. Most of the times, I reach the product directly via the product's official website or via Google Shopping.
I only buy products where they allow returns and refunds.
How do you know if a product is sold by amazon itself or the third party sellers ?
I only buy on Amazon because of free shipping. Prices are higher than other website business that does not offer free shipping like Walmart.
BREAKING NEWS; This just in, companies use fake reviews to gain sales!
Did they seriously claim to have spent actual months investigating this 🤣😂💀
😵😎😖🇺🇸
Yeah, that's how ACTUAL REPORTING is done, asshole. You're just used to click-happy websites throwing whatever they hear up on the web without ever bothering to check anything out first.
They have to show their boss they are doing work.
fake investigation or not. as myself as an online seller. this is true and even as an adult who knows about adult world this is vey very true , other people dont play by the rules it is a fact. even in big corporations happens like Samsung and other android phones copying Iphone designs.
You wont get it unless you know the market. Everything they said was true. I hate wsj too but they're right about this fake reviews are a big problem no matter where they come from.
As a buyer I’ve noticed the experience on amazon has deteriorated significantly because of this issue, to the point where I’d rather just pay more in person and save myself the time and sanity.
Lol "Everyday I wake up to check reviews to see if I'm in business" Amazon basically owns you and your "business" and do whatever they please with you.
Yeah and some of us still support them with our money. Amazon has to be stopped or none will be in business or even own one .
@@Legion849 it's too late now
@@Crowbar44 exactly we are not living in stone age era anymore.
@@Crowbar44 They've already got a near equal in Alibaba. Rakuten isn't too far behind either.
@@Crowbar44 yep
I order off of Amazon several times per week. Yes, it's a jungle sorting through all the reviews. Yes, companies all over the world are participating in these same scams, however, I've noticed it's more prolific among the Chinese companies. So, IMHO, this video is legit and is not just "picking on" Chinese companies. There's nothing wrong with letting the buyer beware!
But then its not just Chinese companies that post fake reviews. Tho reading some are a good laugh.
Most scammers are from China.
This explains partly why most of the reviews on Amazon are garbage.
I use fakespot.com to check the reviews - but that’s algorithm based too and I guess subject to being tricked as well.
@@Supperconductor I use it too. There is no foolproof way, but it will at least check for basic fake reviews. It is similar to counterfeit currency, although there is extremely good fakes, there are also tools to spot poorly done ones.
Eim Unbannable so you admit most of the garbage reviews are made by chinese?
LOL, he did indeed.
Thanks to the chinese
They did not say how this man does it
They didnt buy his consulting, you want that for free? nice try lol
you gotta pay for knowledge. thats how businesses work
Trade secret
Then watch it again , just because you did not pay attention does not mean he did not say it lol. I heard how he did it.
@@KrtNeo so can you explain how he does it?
Edit: I want to know exactly how he does it and in the most detailed instructions that will provide me with what I need to do.
The fake reviews often get called out by people like me who actually look at the reviewers to see how long they’ve been online.
Mahadragon yeah but how, and then what? I want to do this too (on many e-commerce platforms) but oftentimes there’s nowhere to report to :/ it’s good to know I’m not alone but I wonder if there’s more to be done, or that could be done, to help. It’s def laborious af. Are you saying you call them out to the platform or you call them out in the reviews section?
it’s good that you care tho it’s important to try and combat the scourge of bs on these here internetz I’m just interested in your methods, experiences, etc.
Jacynda Minor I do it in the reviews section. People will see it.
This video awwsome. Would buy again A+++
LOL!
Does the job. Highly recommended
Video movie make me happi....for go to what again soon!
This is old news. You should really look into the ongoing speculation from thousands of online retail businesses, who buy really cheap fake products on Aliexpress/Alibaba etc, brand and resell it on Ebay and Amazon. Their level of automation is extreme. They heavily promote this scheme as a fast way of doing money. Advertising apps/algorithms and database software through which you reduce number of transactions, practically buying cheap products, branding and reselling without having to even check the product. You see these kind of ads everywhere on Facebook, Instagram or any social media platform out there. It's a disease really!
This is why I don’t buy from Amazon. I prefer to go to the actual site itself for the product.
This happened to me so many times I was convinced Amazon was complicit and didn't want me to sell on their platform.
Wow! Actual investigative journalism in this day and age. on things we use.
Wish we had more journalists that tested things and systems like this.
At the end of the day I think Amazon doesn’t care much when they get commissions
Mate I’ve had my best listings hijacked by Chinese sellers and changed. Reported to Amazon and they really don’t care
Amazon should just ban Chinese sellers.
I've had my Amazon account hacked before and used to post fake reviews for products I never bought.
I'm done with Amazon!!!! Products have 5 🌟 reviews, but when I get the item - it looks completely different from the picture advertised! And the worst part is - Amazon uses returns against you!!! They have horrible customer service. They treated me like it was my fault that I received a defective product!
Aida Amorre just hang up and call again. It’s always different depends on the person you get
@@yuguangzai I've learned that and it's bunch of bs!!! I'm done with Amazon for good.
lol Never had that problem, only buy Amazon prime approved products
Agree.
Same here. I don’t even touch Amazon. Online shopping is trash
Amazon does not care about good or bad sellers, they need their customers and selling fee commission.
Amazon hosed a ton of reviewer accounts that were freebie in exchange for review, so my bet is more on ethics than a quick buck. They can still buy but can't leave reviews.
BS I've never actually been suspended but many of my accounts have been in the yellow or red because someone with a Chinese name has ordered from me and claimed the item was defective and in other cases claim the item was not in the package.
@@TheBkdot seems like people who are caught doing fake reviews should get bigger punishments.
You're very short-sighted if you think Amazon doesn't care, it affects their reputation and customer satisfaction, which can hurt their bottom line (look at eBay, their reputation took a hit and they aren't the big dog in e-commerce).
That Chinese guy seems to have no sense of shame about his business practice. He sounds very proud of what he is doing. He even called himself a ‘Professor of Amazon’
*Same thing is happening for app reviews.*
When we look at the most negative OR the most positive reviews. They are often fake.
Ratings and reviews is like the currency of reputation on the Internet.
Have you notice that people who a little shady or straight up con
They all find reasons to justify their action
I was asked to do reviews on a
Amazon but that stopped once I gave honest 3* reviews. They keep on pestering me to give them 5*. I refused.
"It's a Jungle" ... yeah man, youre selling on a site called Amazon lol try ebay
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@@JoaoOliveira-zy8qd Then why say it so hiddenly?
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@@JoaoOliveira-zy8qd It's overrated.
"How All Successful Hard Working Online Businessmen Stay in Business"
Most of the fake reviews I have seen are from US sellers ;)
Agree not just chinese does it, everyone in the world
Nah I've done the fake reviews on a private group it was 100% Chinese sellers
The majority is Asians though
yea i'm sure your opinion is completely trustworthy LOL
And that is exactly why i love going to malls . Exercise , retail therapy , satisfaction , all in one . Lets bring our malls back instead of relying heavily on online scam artists and negligent companies.
Despite the click bait, I learn a few or two about online business. Thanks or no thanks WSJ.
It's been my experience as an Amazon consumer that, when I give a very bad review because a product is totally misrepresented, my reviews are immediately removed. For example, a Kindle version of a cookbook in French. I read enough French and have been cooking long enough that I frequently buy books like this is they aren't available in English.
One such book I ordered, when I opened it on my Kindle, was only three pages long, and those were random photos that had little to do with the topic of the cookbook. Amazon had no explanation as to why my review was removed, nor, more significant, why they continued to sell these non-books. Somebody's got a friend in Amazon management.
Ditto a DVD I ordered that had no DVD in the case. My review was removed, and I was offered neither a refund nor a replacement. This one is fairly common, if you watch reviews as closely as I do. Cheating at Amazon. You bet. Maybe they should be watching their employees more closely because sellers don't get away with these tactics without help from someone inside the company.
Omg, I had a review removed as well. It was a good negative review describing a problem with a fuel line breaking down and I even took a picture of the chunks of rubber coming off of it. It's B.S.
Exactly! I don’t even bother leaving reviews because the negative ones are always removed!
It could be that the seller just complained to Amazon about your review being fake.
Wow. What an amazing piece of investigative journalism. 🙄
I have been contacted by Chinese sellers wanting to give me stuff in return for reviews. I said No to one. I told another that my positive review should be enough for him. One very active reviewer wrote about what they did to him, in his review. It was very telling. There certainly is corruption in Amazon reviews.
But I am a semanticist and can read between the lines.
The most important thing I take away from this video is to be wary of extremely short reviews that provide no clue about the writer's origin. I will look for an unusual percentage of such extremely short reviews, to discount the product rating.
That's the thing about China. Apparently they hate English. You can tell by their writing or their lack of writing.
How did they contact you
And can you even form a simple sentence in any other language?
This is not true. People in China pay money to teach their kids English. They not only care about them learning English, but they want to have American pronunciation of English. Look up the success of the online ESL business centered in China.
Another way a company fights back is by reporting good reviews on protects of their competitors to get the good review taken down and then the reviewer barred from ever being able to make a review. It's happen to me three times now over the course of 2 years. I don't get an email or anything from Amazon, I am just told i broke community guidelines. Since the first time it happened, I have been taking screen shots of every review i make and sure enough, I am barred a few months later. I don't slander, nor do I take in products for free and then review them or receive compensation. I just love tech and try out lots of different items of one particular category and give an honest opinion. I believe this last time it was because I give 2 bad reviews for a iPad Pro 11 case that used horrible magnets and wasn't compatible to charge the Apple Pencil 2. I then gave a glowing review to one that didn't use magnets but cupped the corners of the iPad AND you are able to charge the Apple Pencil 2. A day later, banned.
I think I learned enough ancient Chinese secrets for today.🤖🤖🤖👁️👌
i knew this was thing, when u get a poor quality product on amazon with great reviews, had to be fake. so hard to eshop
Steve D Yup amazon consists of fake reviews. Local shopping is better
I usually cross interview the sellers. I directly ask a string questions related to the product and demand pictures before buying. This has helped me most times.
They need to make it so that only people who have bought at least a certain number of products and confirmed their purchases can leave reviews on products. Also make it so it's not too easy for one person at a certain IP to spam fake reviews. There needs to be an algorithm that filters through low reviews and sees if this person is just a bot or a person that bought only 1 item and is leaving negative reviews.
Lol you think they haven't thought of these things and done benefit analysis? They should hire you as a consultant.
They already hire people to buy products and send them empty boxes just to be able to provide a fake review.
Thank you!!! I have shopped Amazon products for awhile and trusted the positive product reviews in the beginning. After awhile buying Amazon products based on reviews I was baffled why products I purchased were substandard or discount Dollar Store worthy at above grade prices. I would post my reviews of my disappointing experiences. Then my phone rang late into the night from callers representing the China or Asian companies I had purchased my Amazon products from. Emotionally they invariably told me to remove my reviews. Then in exchange for removing reviews offered to refund my money. Sometimes reviewers of Amazon products I wished to buy warned products were knock offs (Yeti and others ), based on their own buying experiences. I went to Yeti website and purchased products there and advised Yeti of the knock offs sold through Amazon. I have been amazed at Amazon for allowing these scam-y practices.
"The wall street journal investigated for months around the world"
lol, investigated
"Investigated for moths" more likely
'sophisticated technologies, like machine learning' why do I find this hilarious! Does this guy know what he's talking about?
just a reporter
@@ItsEricPhung you are right
I just wanted to let everyone know that i didn't know WSJ would make the video subject like this. I was told it was going to be a interview of me as a consultant.
www.professorofamazon.com or follow me on faceboook Professor Of Amazon facebook page
hey you scammed professor amazon by pretending friendly then making him look bad.
u idiot
@It's Private if he was scamming he wouldn't have told it to bloomberg, would he?
@It's Private what did he steal? he's sales consultant. criminals don't talk to media especially not in china.
Why are you all so triggered by media targeting China? I am chinese myself and have seen this too many times, people are hired to manipulate reviews and comments regarding a product, service and even religious. Remember how China rose to become the world factory? cheap labor. Even cheaper to leave a review.
People will fake literally anything in China
They are taking a page from the Russian trolls trying to cast doubt on these types of reports. We all know how that’ll end. The truth will eventually surface to the mainstream laying bare all the lies and its eventual collapse.
I ordered a bag from Amazon , not knowing it was coming from China. They claimed I received the package, I did not, then the package went to NY, I had to track my own package while Amazon said they were not responsible for refund! I learned the bag was coming from a 3rd party as well, then they want my info. over the phone, nonsense, I refused. after emails and tracking, USPS, phone calls, I finally got the package. I have not ordered from Amazon since. I did threatened to report them to the Government! BAD EXPERIENCE!
I saw a brilliant article about it on fbamonthly.com you should check it
Never buy from third parties on Amazon. You can read where it's shipped from if you look in the description. Or look for the return address for the product. This will save you time and money as I was scammed this way!
Means Amazon no longer get my biz. Sorry. Good to know.
The more of us that feel and act this way, the better chance our society has to survive! Bless you!
It’s funny because somebody will buy
I was a professional reviewer for three years on amazon as a consultant. I also have seen thousands who violated their policies daily. Sellers would send me dozens of items daily for free in exchange for a 4-5 star review. I never compromised my morals or character and despite what they wanted because it violated amazons policies they didn’t want me at all to report them when they complained I didn’t give them 5 stars which was few and far between. I kept my honesty and integrity so I was ranked in the top 5,000 reviewers on the site where items were sent to me without contacting me. I have over 30 totes of brand new products I never reviewed or used because so much was being sent daily it was impossible for me by myself to keep up especially with the complaints and reporting.
How do you become a professional reviewer?
Ok that’s it, I’m done with buying from amazon, walking around is healthier anyway
You can still buy books off amazon
Is walking and buying things off Amazon mutually exclusive??
Dint expect such a low value content from WSJ. Such things are done from everywhere around the world not just China, nothing fancy in them. Besides, if Amazon is so easily manipulatable by these 5th grader attacks then Amazon is to blame. Even the small group discussion forums run by individuals are better regulated
@Watchdog so i see you leaving this same comment everywhere, what is with all these hate?
well, blaming Amazon is kinda the last point made in the film. Both the Israeli and Chinese guru seller said that reliance on algorithms by Amazon is a weakness that human beings can exploit. This is a major problem in Silicon Valley. They keep thinking and wanting to create computers that are smarter than human beings yet a group of human beings manage to find loopholes and outsmart the machines who were….surprise, surprise, designed by human beings.
yea. but most scammers are from china and india. that 2 country are will know for scamming online shoppers. putting up fake reviews and ratings to their products.
instead of blaming the scammers u blame amazon? lol your way of thinking and reasoning is fucked up just like most of your ppl.
This video is awesome.
My authentic negative review (with photos of the product attached) was rejected by Amazon for not abiding by their rules and regulations.
Then follow the rules.
80% of stuff I've bought on Amazon is JUNK!
christie bowman
Stop wasting your money.
This is still true today. There are still a bunch of Chinese sellers offering free products for positive reviews over platforms like WeChat
I pay more attention to the negative reviews. Good reviews mean nothing. People ruin everything.
Didn't you watch? They post negatives, too.
Best to put faith in American, European, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese manufacturers over Chinese, regardless of the price difference. If we all do this, the Chinese menace will dissipate on its own.
Lady J- That is exactly what I do. To determine if the problems are worse than the benefits.
Read the reviews with pictures and updates (usually lengthy). Negative reviews are faked too.
And i thought selling on eBay was cutthroat 😂
Thanks for this reporting
The scammers have already started attacking the thumbs down button on this video.
Or the 50-cent army . . . .
About 3 years ago, my niece got lots of shipments from Amazon. I found we were supposed to go online and rate them. NOT! Thanks for the items though.
The West needs to realize how sneaky-clever the chinese are. Even my chinese friends say so about themselves, and not in a flattering way.
We need to realize how sneaky (maybe control is a better word) or how ignorant we are. We are giving away our right to choose medicine, food, education, right to bear arms (against any entity including government as in martial law) to oppress and control us. Our medical insurance allows only sickness management. No healing modalities. The push for fake sweeteners, fake meat, fake conceptions, fake and adulterated foods, contamination of foods with glyphosate, dicamba and other weed-bicides, GMOs, antibiotics, and IQ lowering fluoride, mercury and aluminum in water and vaccines. Safe level of mercury is 0. Especially the brain. Don't believe me. Ask or check with your body community "self" of 400T denizens if they want you to force feed (expose) them that food, smell, sound, vision, shampoo, lotion, object, or person. Called muscle-testing. Don't worry. Only brain power is required. No battereis. No FDA approval or dissing, no doc wants to admit to it. And probably banned in medical schools. Banned only by your decision. or not. More fun than Candy!
8:28 Why did the Asian guy with an American accent have subtitles while Latino guy didn't??? WSJ closet racists.
Israelis are "latino" now? Lol!
Before buying anything on amazon i look up various reviews on TH-cam. Bingo, problem solved
Good thinking. If it's a fairly prominent product I will read the reviews of other websites as well.
MaKos2004 but they can be fake reviews too
Reviews on TH-cam can be fake too. Especially if the reviewer has sponsors on their channel.
TH-cam reviews are not to be trusted in most cases there’s money behind them. However, there still legit TH-camrs who care about their subscribers and can be trusted but only like 10% chance of it being real. Don’t trust no one not even your president 😂
Same. I bought hundreds of items on Amazon. All good quality. Just don't be a dumb shopper.
Access to products is improved. Distribution is improving. markets are building. Quality is getting better. Hope for even better times becomes the directive: expect better times, demand better.
To get the best product order thru Prime and Amazon fulfillment.Lowest risk with product!
Lon Brooklyn lol
Sure and guess what at one point u will regret it.
You can trust prime because it's based on seller performance however any seller can opt for Amazon fulfillment.
For all the Chinese people on here, the WSJ isn't against you guys but rather this sort of capitalism that has caused unethical practices (in any context and region of the world).
Amazon should not be allowing Chinese sellers PERIOD!!!!
That’s why I never buy on amazon
America often chastise other countries for things we've done. Even cyber spying is something America has done. Other countries are just bolder and better at it. I think our government should tell its citizens the whole truth and nothing but the truth. At least, if we have to suffer, or go to war, we'll know why we're doing it.
China steals US patents. It's been proven that virtually none of the military infrastructure is Chinese.
I'm no fan of WSJ, and there are unscrupulous sellers all round the world, but as someone who buys LOTS of stuff from Amazon I can say with authority that there are many sellers from China who have fake reviews. Just today I was trying to find an eyelet plier, and you can see all the fake reviews pushing the cheap rubbish to the top of the listings, and even when you think it's a UK seller locally, you can read the pigeon English which describes it, such as "Great item make big benefit to you". As Amazon has a good refund policy I'm not bothered and some things are worth taking a punt. Just look at the negative reviews and see how they are written. Sometimes you see a good selling item with one bad review saying something short like "Waste of money = 1 star" and I suspect it is a rival seller.
Anyway, I've bought lots of stuff from China/HK through Amazon and ebay and about 80-90% of it turns up. If it doesn't I've always had a refund. I'd say about 20-30% of the time I've regretted buying.
You shouldn't use Amazon but use AliExpress instead. (NO, I'm not being payed by them). Because AliExpress is a chinese company, they will have a better grip on chinese "cheating"reviews etc. Amazon being an american company will always be at a disadvantage when fighting these cheating tactics.
ehhhh...different countries have different quality standards though...when i deal with manufactures from china..one of the first thing i look for is where they do business..if theyre not selling to the u.s. or uk..their quality may be a little lower and chances are ill avoid them..
Amazon knows well, but don't do much. they want to create other market revenue benefit from this which this vid didn't mention
This video presentation I think was of a great quality especially it contains high definition and included was a free subtitles. Highly recommending
That’s called scamming? Why isn’t it called search engine optimization like it would be in the US
its a risk reward thing. theres low risk, high reward. same as what bankers have in the financial industry. you just need to make it much more costly for them to do this.
I am not surprised. When I do a search on Amazon to find Products Made in the USA; and try to buy an item that says in the product's description, 'Made in the United States.
Then when the item arrives it has a Made in China Logo.
So he is the one responsible for the extra long, everything in the title, nonsense titles and descriptions.
What they really need is someone who is a native English speaker to tone down the repetitive nature of the descriptions.
Well known that this was going on Chinese sellers will stop at nothing to destroy competitors.
We need to support local brands
Once I thought I have a wide choice of projectors from different brands on amazon. Then I realised that all those projectors are completely identical, produced by the same Chinese manufacturer. They just have some minor cosmetic differences and different artificial brands attached to them. I don’t want to buy anything from someone who wants to deceive me.
Thats why I quit ordering in Amazon
it’s funny because i only got scammed in America when it comes to online shopping
I purchased a really cheap macbook Pro magsafe Power charger off Amazon. The vendor had some weird name like.. HJK312guf or something non-descript. The thing melted into itself like a burnt marshmellow. Hey- it was $7 vs the $80, and even melted it worked just long enough to get me by. The reviews? HORRIBLE. They all said the same thing with pictures that looked like mine. The shop wasn't shut down immediately because I was able to buy another cheap lame-o product until I could afford the $80 for my legit one, lol! And there were another 20 vendors with off names that sold the EXACT same product.
They all got their chargers from the same vendor in china
Video: Talks about a very serious topic that you should consider especially if you buy Amazon products depending on the reviews the product gets
Comments: BuT wHY tHE ChiNeSe GUy hAvE suBTitLEs WhILe tHe IsRAeLi GUy DoEsN'T
That would be anti-semitic and racist, lol.
Excellent video that will be praised by anyone who already sold something on Amazon
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Also an asshole army who are blind to logic and reasoning
Like you
actually ur comment seems more like a bot than theirs
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Buy directly from the source, you want an Iphone go to Apple's website and buy it etc.
Wish ALL of this was subtitled. I'm a deaf viewer, and I have a few (deaf) friends who might have gotten roped into this that I'd like to forward the video to.
this has been going on since day one….