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FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect

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376 points indus | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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brandonmenc ◴[22 Oct 24 15:45 UTC] No.41915474[source]▶
Next can we ban 1-star reviews that just complain about the shipping and not the product itself?
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dylan604 ◴[22 Oct 24 15:56 UTC] No.41915604[source]▶
Why, if you're thinking of buying the product from the same vendor, would you not reconsider buying from a different vendor just for shipping issues? Shipping is a major part of buying something online, so I don't think it's a bad review to have available
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ars ◴[22 Oct 24 16:24 UTC] No.41915920[source]▶
If UPS put the package by your neighbor, switching vendors doesn't really do anything.

Or if you bought from a third party seller, but your review is attached to an FBA product, the shipping review has nothing to do with the current item.

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1. dylan604 ◴[22 Oct 24 18:11 UTC] No.41917015[source]▶
If the review was that their shipped packages were improperly packaged to survive shipping of any carrier would be useful info. Finding out they took 6 days to arrange for delivery after the order is useful. Bad shipping doesn't just mean the selected carrier had issues