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		naner on Dec 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon's Fake Review Problem As long as the item isn't prohibitively expensive the company paying for the review could just provide you the money to purchase the product.

diebir on Dec 17, 2017 [–]

Is this really practical for small time items? Does this happen at scale, or there's some other mechanism to create fake reviews? Seems like the practice is widespread, all real purchases?

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