Fake Product Reviews used by online vendors

[Mr Nick]

While searching for pictures of my car on Google, I came across a photoshoped picture of my car used on Carid's website:

Original:
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Photochop
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Then I noticed they used something I said to create a fake product review, along with two other members... alocker and tracar91.

Their fake product review page:
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The posts they copied their review from:
https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/100809-B-G-Rod-Works-wheels
Mr Nick #4
alocker #9
tracar91 #13

These cheesy online auto parts houses are a joke. I can see using the picture, once it's online it's public data, blah blah blah. But to make fake product reviews by copying and pasting stuff that other people said (that aren't even their customers!) is pathetic.

Anybody else have their car images or comments/posts used like this?

[TheJDMan]

Nick,
I agree some of those on-line sellers are pretty slimy. But hey, at least they cleaned up your garage for you! :lol:

[Bob in St. Louis]

Yea, they even got the grease off the floor. haha
But no, that's pretty sad to think that some dude is getting paid to surf the net looking ("mining") for information and reviews and compiling it on their site like it's true feedback to the manufacturer.

[Josh@Ridetech]

Wow...

[dobie6982]

Those wheels do look awesome on your car., so at least you have that going for you.

[Mr Nick]

Yes they did clean up the floor for me, and even tinted the windows... that are rolled down. :)

I emailed and got a reply back that she is looking into it for me...

The post I made on their facebook page calling them out on fake product reviews seems to have disappeared.

[parsonsj]

I should regard nearly every online review as a potential fake. Slimy, but true.

[andrewb70]

I should regard nearly every online review as a potential fake. Slimy, but true.

I'm with John on this. I take all online reviews with a grain of salt, unless there are literally hundreds, in which case I find there is a strong tendency to regress to the mean, which is all you can hope for.

Andrew

[MonzaRacer]

Heck you think thats bad. I buy a NEW LG dryer after much review of comments back in Feb. So after using it few times I go and review/rate it on LG site. And they tell me I cant give previous brand name, yet others had, cant do this but others had ,blah blah.
So I never re-did it.
Dont get me wrong, the reason why I mentioned the old dryer was to reiterate the quality in my new one. Which guys if the wife wants a new dryer, look at LG. Heck you can down load an app to help do basic diagnosis before calling repairman! Heck I dont think I have ever had it run more than 35-40 minutes no mater how I load it. Put it FULL of heavy jeans, wasnt even set in heavy (hot) setting, just on med heavy, had the 80% alarm on (oh and the alarms are little tone/chime songs, no blaring buzzers) and in 25 minutes it was at 80% dry(this is mode you can use if you want to iron something while still damp).
But I digress, even had LG pull my rating/comment.