To hate useless reviews?

[Smallfry79]

AIBU to get really frustrated with pointless reviews?
I am not a natural cook and use online recipies a lot. I like to read the comments to see what others thought of the recipie or any suggested tweaks. It really annoys me scrolling through comments such as 'looks lovely', 'definitely going to try this'. What use is that to anyone? Go make it and come back and tell us what you think then.

This phenomenon isn't restricted to recipies either. Often see product reviews that say 'just arrived, cant wait to try it'. Again, useless. Other than maybe to say delivery was prompt but it's the actual product im interested in.

Trivial issue I know and not something to get worked up about but surely I can't be the only one this irritates.

I completely agree. When purchasing an item you need really useful reviews. Like this one I came across when buying some gear for DDs Bushcraft trip, including this survival bracelet......
Saved my life

• Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2015

‘So there I was, surrounded by a dozen ravenous wolves in one of the icy forests of Alaska. As the predators snarled and circled me I knew there was little chance of survival, I dropped to my knees, covered be eyes and awaited my doom. But suddenly the wolves started whimpering, I lowered my hands from my eyes and to my amazement saw a pack of once ferocious killing machines cower with their tails between their legs. At first I was startled, but then remembered that on my wrist I was wearing the Gerber Bear Grylls Survival Bracelet. I stood up, tore the bracelet from my wrist and proceeded the blow into the survival whistle, at that moment the spirit of Bear Grylls himself burst up from underneath the ground and slaughtered each and every one of the wolves using his bear hands and a M16 assault rifle. I then pulled my Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Pro Fixed Blade Knife from my cargo shorts and sunk it into the heart of the Alpha male. That night Bear and I feasted on wolf heart, which we gloriously washed down with a gallon of our own piss’ (199 people found this helpful)

“Bought as a Christmas gift for my grandson, I’m sure he’ll love it!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Bought this Xbox game for my grandson but he has a PlayStation” ⭐️

“Ordered this book and received a tin can” ⭐️

Doesn't help that so often you are pestered for a review almost as soon as an item is delivered, when actually you want to use it for a while to find out what it's like. And by the time you're in a position to write a good review you've forgotten where the link to review it is. More likely to go looking if something has gone wrong.

I once received something with a voucher for £10 or £15 cashback or coupon if you wrote a 5* review. But void if you told Amazon! ... was rather disappointed and a little worried as I'd relied on reviews when choosing the item.

Selling on ebay. A customer left a neutral and ok as a comment. We were a little surprised as we'd sold a lot of these and had good feedback.
So we contacted her to ask if there was a problem. Her reply was that she was fed up of leaving feedback for items she bought. Ebay removed the feedback.

@funtimefrank

Oh I love a pointless review. DH gets irate with the ones that give it 1 star and say 'great product but the box was damaged'

We sell on Amazon FBA (meaning they take care of shipping to customers) and we're fed up of the number of rubbish reviews we've got due to damage during transit. Amazon take responsibility for this, but it still shows as a product rating.

@Crazzzycat

I love the reviews on the BBC good food website. So many along the lines of “I didn’t use half of the recommended ingredients, added a lot of random things instead, ignored the instructions and somehow it didn’t end up looking like it does on the picture”. Even better when they then rate the recipe as only 1 or 2 stars as if the mess they created had nothing to do with them 😂

And every single vegetarian recipe has a load of 'would be nicer with bacon' or 'I liked this but my husband wouldn't eat it because it didn't have any meat' - why would anyone care about the opinion of your neanderthal husband?!

@Still1nLove 😁 Thank you