Reviews

I've noticed this a lot with components or prebuilts on Amazon - feels like resellers gaming the review system in a deceptive way (breaking news, I know) - like
a "reputable" seller sells a product at a pricepoint where it gets good reviews because even if on its own its not high end, its a good value for the price
reputable seller moves on to selling other products as time goes on - rarely very much time in the world of PC components and stuff
sketchy sellers sell the older products, but since the reviews are for the product itself and not tied to resellers or price, they can take a product where half the good reviews were because of price/value, double the price, and still post it as a product with thousands of good reviews, even if the conditions in said reviews no longer is relevant.
To be fair, sometimes you run into the exact opposite. My OS drive is a Pcie 4.0 nvme drive, and I got it when it was, like, one of maybe two companies making said consumer drives a couple years ago - it's reviews were rather middling; people reported great performance, exactly as advertised, but the main complaint was their main competitor at the time had drive that could do the same thing that were like $50+ less for a 500gb drive.
Fast forward to a year later, same drive had decent but still not great reviews and a quick scroll showed many were the same price complaints from earlier, but the reviews were confusing, because the drive was now listed for only about 60% of the price being complained about in the reviews, so in that case I benefited.
tl;dr = Amazon reviews can be gamed or simply inaccurate in so many ways, both intentionally and accidentally, to render them nearly useless and largely only serve as a tool for sketchy resellers like this to trick people.
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With online selling, the best way to sell is by review. So if you wanne sell good, you need good reviews.
You send one of your products, some even dont want a product, they set up bots that make lifelike reviews daily basis. If you send a product as a seller, they even add pictures like they have reveived the product on different locations.
Especialy reviews on there own website where they can just delete te bad ones.
Use trustpilot for reviews. If you buy it from a shop.
https://nl.trustpilot.com/review/ibuypower.com
The first page of comments are all 1 star
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