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Why do people do this? Aaaaaaaah

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Battleaxebus · 20/09/2018 14:44

Why do people review products when they haven't fucking used them? It is the fucking height of unreasonableness.

I'm looking for shelving brackets - I know my life is too exciting to handle.

Amazon is awash with people who say things like:
"Haven't used them yet but they look good"
"Not opened them but they look sturdy"
"Arrived quickly, look good"

WHY?! WHY?! When Amazon emails and asks you to review your purchase a couple of days after it arrives, that's not a fucking order from God to do it there and then.

Just wait, use the produce and THEN review. FUCKERS

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NurseButtercup · 20/09/2018 16:17

@soupforbrains

"my dog has agreed to help out"

Excellent review - thank you for sharing. I needed a good chuckle. Grin

soupforbrains · 20/09/2018 16:20

@NurseButtercup I love it so much! I did in fact buy those glowsticks and they were every bit as good as the review made them look.

although annoyingly I think the dog looked better in the hairband than I did....

ScarlettSahara · 20/09/2018 16:21

I agree entirely OP. It is just as bad as the insurance reviews that rave about it being cheap & easy to set up. Well cheap insurance becomes expensive with a company that puts obstacles in the way of claiming so similar to unused goods really.

serbska · 20/09/2018 16:21

OMG that dog is the NUTS so beautiful!

scarbados · 20/09/2018 16:28

Must be related to the idiots who give a hotel a one star review on Tripadvisor because 'it rained throughout out stay.'

Or the ones who gave a local restaurant a poor review because 'they didn't have enough room for our party of 12 when we arrived without booking so we went somewhere else'.

Tripadvisor idiot spotting is one of my favourite hobbies.

Tricycletops · 20/09/2018 16:32

scarbados have you seen the Thickos on Tripadvisor thread in classics?

Tricycletops · 20/09/2018 16:33

Thickos!

Laiste · 20/09/2018 16:40

Aha! Thanks for the link Battleaxebus. I'm trying to remember the name of the one i was looking at with all the 5 stars. It's something like Fanjo ... i'm getting dejavu now, i've had this convo on MN before i think!!

scarbados You're so right. Trip advisor is No.1 for funny reviews. I lose hours sniggering and snorting through them. I remember one a few years ago, a long one which mentioned a waiter slapping the reviewers wife at dinner one night. Low and behold a couple of months later Michael McIntyre (sp?) released his new stand up show and part of it revolved around seeing that same review! Grin

RomanyRoots · 20/09/2018 16:41

I just answer the questions they ask, rarely add anything.

HopefullyAnonymous · 20/09/2018 16:50

My favourite amazon reviews:

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/michaelrusch/haribo-gummy-bear-reviews-on-amazon-are-the-most-insane-thin

FermatsTheorem · 20/09/2018 16:53

Or book reviews on Amazon that say it arrived quickly and well packaged.

Grin

Though in fairness, if it's a book I know I want (latest in a series, good reviews in papers, recommended by a friend), and it's just a case of where to buy it from, this sort of info might be relevant.

But yes, on the whole these sorts of reviews are just plain dumb.

scarbados · 20/09/2018 16:59

Tricycletops I hadn't but guess where I'll be heading this evening Grin

TheEmmaDilemma · 20/09/2018 16:59

@soupforbrains That is brilliant. Grin

keepingbees · 20/09/2018 16:59

Or the Argos reviews that go:

"Reserved easily online, was able to park right outside the store. Staff were really helpful, collected and home again within half an hour. Great!"

Erm yeah thanks for the lovely review of Argos but how about the actual flipping item Hmm

Battleaxebus · 20/09/2018 17:04

@Soupforbrains

Grin LOVE THAT! What an amazing pouch [dog emoticon]

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Battleaxebus · 20/09/2018 17:06

Thanks for that @Tricycletops. Amazing Grin

I'm so glad others feel this too. I was a bit nervous posting in AIBU because it can be a bit of a rough ride. I was expecting to be told I'm U because people are just trying to be helpful or that they're older people who don't understand how reviews work and probably have dementia

But we all agree they're bloody irritating bastards. Good stuff.

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exaspirational · 20/09/2018 17:06

I think sometimes people think it's like ebay and if they don't review they'll get a bad reputation. They sometimes read like ebay reviews.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 20/09/2018 17:07

or people who leave 1/2 star reviews on recipes that say "turned out rubbish. I didn't have any self raising flour so used plain, didn't have any caster sugar so used granulated. Didn't rise and tasted awful, terrible recipe, don't waste ur time"

This pees me off too. You get it on the BBCGoodFood website a lot. "I had no broccoli, so I put a banana in, and as my husband doesn't like venison I used chicken sausages, and left the chilli out as we neither of us like spicy food. We don't eat pulses so instead of lentils I added carrots and peas. It looked nothing like the picture and tasted awful! I can't understand how it got so many good reviews - I would never have made it if I'd known what it was really like"

FFS woman!

Laiste · 20/09/2018 17:08

This is long, and i can't get a link to the actual amazon page to work. If you google the bloke's name and the product you can find it easily yourself on Amazon. But i've C&P'd it here anyway. It's about men's hair removal cream .... (if you do go on Amazon to see it you must check out his profile pic).

Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Veet -- the Men's Hair Removal Gel Creme (from hell) . . .
ByJohn W. Osborne Jr.on 30 July 2012
After having been told my danglies looked like an elderly rastafarian I decided to take the plunge and buy some of this as previous shaving attempts had only been mildly successful and I nearly put my back out trying to reach the more difficult bits.

Being a bit of a romantic I thought I would do the deed on the missus's birthday as a bit of a treat.I ordered it well in advance and working in the North sea I considered myself a bit above some of the characters writing the previous reviews and wrote them off as soft office types...oh my fellow sufferers how wrong I was.

I waited until the other half was tucked up in bed and after giving some vague hints about a special surprise I went down to the bathroom. Initially all went well and I applied the gel and stood waiting for something to happen. I didn't have long to wait.

At first there was a gentle warmth which in a matter of seconds was replaced by an intense burning and a feeling I can only describe as like being given a barbed wire wedgie by two people intent on hitting the ceiling with my head.

Religion hadn't featured much in my life until that night but I suddenly became willing to convert to any religion to stop the violent burning around the turd tunnel and what seemed like the destruction of the meat and two veg.

Struggling to not bite through my bottom lip I tried to wash the gel of in the sink and only succeeded in blocking the plughole with a mat of hair.Through the haze of tears I struggled out of the bathroom across the hall into the kitchen by this time walking was not really possible and I crawled the final yard to the fridge in the hope of some form of cold relief.

I yanked the freezer drawer out and found a tub of ice cream, tore the lid of and positioned it under me. The relief was fantastic but only temporary as it melted fairly quickly and the fiery stabbing soon returned.

Due to the shape of the ice cream tub I hadn't managed to give the starfish any treatment and I groped around in the draw for something else as I was sure my vision was going to fail fairly soon. I grabbed a bag of what I later found out was frozen sprouts and tore it open trying to be quiet as I did so. I took a handful of them and tried in vain to clench some between the cheeks of my arse.

This was not doing the trick as some of the gel had found it's way up the chutney channel and it felt like the space shuttle was running it's engines behind me.This was probably and hopefully the only time in my life I was going to wish there was a gay snowman in the kitchen which should give you some idea of the depths I was willing to sink to in order to ease the pain.

The only solution my pain crazed mind could come up with was to gently ease one of the sprouts where no veg had gone before.

Unfortunately, alerted by the strange grunts coming from the kitchen the other half chose that moment to come and investigate and was greeted by the sight of me, arse in the air, strawberry ice cream dripping from my bell end pushing a sprout up my arse while muttering..." Ooooh that feels good "

Understandingly this was a shock to her and she let out a scream and as I hadn't heard her come in it caused an involuntary spasm of shock in myself which resulted in the sprout being ejected at quite some speed in her direction.

I can understand that having a sprout farted against your leg at 11 at night in the kitchen probably wasn't the special surprise she was expecting and having to explain to the kids the next day what the strange hollow in the ice cream was didn't improve my status...

So to sum it up Veet removes hair, dignity and self respect....... :-

Thishatisnotmine · 20/09/2018 17:10

"I bought it as a gift but I am sure that when my next door neighbour's great niece's friend's new baby uses it they will love it". No! Review things you use!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 20/09/2018 17:11

Soup

That dog is a saint! Grin

Battleaxebus · 20/09/2018 17:15

@Laiste That's brilliant. Chutney channel Grin

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MirriVan · 20/09/2018 17:32

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ThePants999 · 20/09/2018 17:38

The questions! The bloody questions! Where clueless people seem to think that the website is asking them personally, and it's only polite to answer regardless of whether they have a damned clue...

toomuchtooold · 20/09/2018 17:39

Oh can I share one? I went on some consumer forum for AV and hifi equipment and asked "I've just had a portable DVD player from x company die on me after 6 months. Does anyone know if any of the portable DVD manufacturers has a reputation for being reliable/durable? I need to order online as I live in the middle of nowhere and don't have time to go shopping for one" and I got one reply back: "don't worry about reliability, they're all pretty reliable. Just have a browse in John Lewis and pick something you like the look of." Confused