I can't and don't rely on Amazon reviews anymore, since there seem (to me) to be too many problems with their review system, like..
- people reviewing the wrong product or version,
- Amazon themselves apportioning a review to the wrong product or version,
- people reviewing a product they haven't actually bought from Amazon or the marketplace,
- people rating based on shipping or a product no-show,
- people blatantly 'talking up' a product they are either involved with or in the business of importing (I've fallen foul of this a few times, where after I've been suckered in to buy something reviewers have positively raved about, albeit cheap & trivial, like a PC cable or a phone accessory, someone in their pay was clearly bigging up their product, since when it arrived it was inferior, counterfeit, or just plain garbage!)..
- and then we have the problem highlighted here of people not knowing what they're doing and so reviewing something poorly, or just don't know what they're talking about, or knowing just enough to seem plausible but actually still getting it wrong and being unintentionally misleading.
Phew.. "Caveat emptor" as they say!
- people reviewing the wrong product or version,
- Amazon themselves apportioning a review to the wrong product or version,
- people reviewing a product they haven't actually bought from Amazon or the marketplace,
- people rating based on shipping or a product no-show,
- people blatantly 'talking up' a product they are either involved with or in the business of importing (I've fallen foul of this a few times, where after I've been suckered in to buy something reviewers have positively raved about, albeit cheap & trivial, like a PC cable or a phone accessory, someone in their pay was clearly bigging up their product, since when it arrived it was inferior, counterfeit, or just plain garbage!)..
- and then we have the problem highlighted here of people not knowing what they're doing and so reviewing something poorly, or just don't know what they're talking about, or knowing just enough to seem plausible but actually still getting it wrong and being unintentionally misleading.
Phew.. "Caveat emptor" as they say!