MadLaughter
Member
What the fuck.
So, one of the gifts I got my mom for Christmas was a candle. I bought it off amazon, after looking through a few and glancing at the review average.
Today it shows up, and the wood wick thing is broken and the candle doesn't even fully fill the container the wax or whatever is in. So I go back to look at the reviews, and just about every single one of them has a slight variation of:
"I received this item at a promotional discount in exchange for my honest, unbiased review."
And I mean SLIGHT. Here's the review page:
http://www.amazon.com/Northwood-Can...ortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending&pageNumber=1
Look at the first or last lines of 95% of the reviews. It has 47 reviews, all 5 stars, all within the last month.
Is this a candle cult? A candlespiracy? I googled the phrase, and apparently there is an entire culture of product testers? What? Am I in the truman show?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductTesting/comments/3cmup7/what_sentence_do_you_guys_use_to_state_you/
So, one of the gifts I got my mom for Christmas was a candle. I bought it off amazon, after looking through a few and glancing at the review average.
Today it shows up, and the wood wick thing is broken and the candle doesn't even fully fill the container the wax or whatever is in. So I go back to look at the reviews, and just about every single one of them has a slight variation of:
"I received this item at a promotional discount in exchange for my honest, unbiased review."
And I mean SLIGHT. Here's the review page:
http://www.amazon.com/Northwood-Can...ortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending&pageNumber=1
Look at the first or last lines of 95% of the reviews. It has 47 reviews, all 5 stars, all within the last month.
Is this a candle cult? A candlespiracy? I googled the phrase, and apparently there is an entire culture of product testers? What? Am I in the truman show?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductTesting/comments/3cmup7/what_sentence_do_you_guys_use_to_state_you/