• WiildFiire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They removed how many ratings the product has received. So a 4.5 star rating from 100,000 people means that a good few people had issues or didn’t like it

    A 4.5 star rating from 3 people makes you suspicious of the seller

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      1 year ago

      So 4.5 is bad in both of those scenarios? So how is the number of people having rated matter?

      Personally I always look further than the AVG number anyway. As other commenters have said none of this means anything if you don’t check negative reviews for reoccurring issues.

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        1 year ago

        5.0 ⭐️ (100% 5 stars)

        Could be:

        5 ⭐️ (1 review)

        Or

        5 ⭐️ (12,345 reviews)

        Knowing the volume provides extra insights. If nothing else, at least when glancing at the list of search results, knowing the volume can allow a slightly faster zero in on the items to dig deeper.

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          1 year ago

          I agree, just the comment before read as ‘i don’t trust 5 stars whether it’s a lot of votes or very few votes’ - so I wasn’t sure why it mattered how many votes it had based on the comment.

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      1 year ago

      losing the view-at-a-glance quantity of reviews was really annoying when i had to shop for some things last week.

      ended up chasing me to newegg for the first time in forever. was done in 5 minutes (including running to a different pc and booting it up, to complete an unexpected 2fa), and no iffy marketplace sellers getting in the way. got exactly what i was looking for from who i wanted to buy from (the site, not a third party). a split shipment all delivered in 2 days to the boonies, cheaper and faster than amazon.

      the difference in experience sent me back to newegg–this time as the first choice, for a little part order i would have normally got from whatever highly-reviewed amazon marketplace seller was cheapest.