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Oh my gosh, this is actually a huge improvement for customer-facing webpages! They used to be all about coaxing you into buying even if the product was garbage, but maybe the returns were costing them too much. I'm just wondering why they haven't gotten rid of these products altogether though. Hopefully, they keep making changes like this for other product pages too. Do you think they have any plans to tackle fake reviews or reviews for totally unrelated stuff? For example, mascara reviews on a kettlebell listing.


I figure returns have to cost them.

What I don't understand is why they don't already do this yet, instead of "flagging", just down-rank the product when it comes to search results and recommendations. If the return threshold hits a certain level, the product gets dropped entirely.




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