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		currency on Sept 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam Yeah. Amazon didn't start the answers section like this. Once Amazon started emailing random purchasers to answer questions about the item they purchased, the quality of the answers went way down.

eru on Sept 30, 2022 [–]

In principle it would be very easy to Amazon to detect 'I don't know' type answers.

yencabulator on Oct 1, 2022 | [–]

In principle it would be very easy to Amazon to detect when a product listing is switched to a completely different item, yet that fraud is rampant.

eru on Oct 2, 2022 | | [–]

Yes. I was already implicitly blaming Amazon for the low-quality reviews..

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