Poppy Ghostraven Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Wonder why people have to give fake reviews on marketplace.Grrr... it spoils it for the genuine builders and sellers who work hard just to make any sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Why do people do this.. ? grrr... it spoils it for the genuine builders and sellers who work hard just to make good sales. Because they can. Same reason some give poor reviews against their competition. We could discuss ethics all day long but it won't stop people enjoying the minigames within SL, gaming the Marketplace being one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Galli Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 When people announce in their profiles they hate drama and fakers -- guess what they are likely to be? Glowing reviews for a meh product are a tip off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uallas Borgin Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Yup sad, specially if it is a talented builder. Viral marketing is the way to go now: Average Joes and Jills talking about your stuff on the social media or in this case writing reviews on the marketplace. But, somewhere in our brain there is a primate who knows by instinct that survival is garanteed by being part of a group. It pushes us to conform and go with the general opinion. It also pushes us to find likeminded people and band together. Applied here this means that customers are less inclined to buy stuff without reviews, not because they doubt the quality but because it is less hip or cool.-> No reviews = no big awesome tribe to join where I can be safe. Once there are some reviews and they are good, it is harder to write a bad review. All reviewers say this product is great but I feel it sucks -> I do not conform to the tribe, if I show it they may kick me out into that dangerous world again. What that merchant is doing is seeding his review tab. Writing the first positive review to hopefully attract some happy customers who feel confident to write a positive review. After he gains a critical mass his marketing goes all by itself. It's just the same as the "happy customers" in RL situations who happen all to be professional copywriters. When we read reviews, we hope to get the opinion people like us who already bought the item or if we are lucky someone with technical savvy who gives his honest opinion. But what we really see is the voice of conformity speaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uallas Borgin Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 "But what we really see is the voice of conformity speaking" Oooh I am combining two senses: seeing and hearing. That's a style form used in poetry. Damn I am good :matte-motes-big-grin-evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claireschen Hesten Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 it's quite common for merchants to use alts to review stuff i bought something not too long ago and one of the glowing reviews was from one of the creators of the product i can only guess the other praising reviews were from alts because the product wasn't half as good as the reviews suggested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 when the reviews sound like advertising i usually get a feel they are alts.. i'm gonna do more research than just their reviews if i get a feeling they are using alts to buff thier reviews.. i just find it silly that they think cheap tactics really pay off in the end..they don't.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squashy Beeswing Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I've also noticed bunches of suspicious looking reviews. There was an item recently with a couple of dozen fantastic reviews, all sounding remarkably similar. I was curious (ok, nosey) and looked some of them up via their profiles. All Russian, every single one. Coincidence? I think not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Ghostraven Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 Thanks everyone for your answers. Yes it is a shame - I guess it happens a lot and what Pamela Galli mentioned above is likely to be an accurate observation. On the flip side, some of my favourite stores that have very successful businesses have hardly any reviews for their products on the marketplace - but that's probably because their in world store is so gorgeous that people like to shop there :-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellyn Elan Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Because I'm aware of the stupid way they have the Marketplace reviews and comments set up, I never bother to read any of them. So for me, the sockpuppet merchants are wasting their time. This is yet another example of something that could be fixed by LL if they cared. I really feel for the merchants who take care and pride in their work, making SL a better place, and fight an uphill battle most of the time to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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