One bad review and the Money Diet plummets down the Bestsellers' list Blog Discussion

chriz1000

Positive review submitted here too. I meant to review it a while ago! I wonder how long it takes for our new reviews to appear, I would have imagined at least a couple should have been approved by now?

Patr100

I think most people would take more heed of the overall rating of products on Amazon anyway- specially with a lot of reviews The book still has an average customer review of 4+ stars .

CLARABEL

another positive review, can't wait for them all to appear!

clarabel

nearlyrich

Just done mine and clicked helpful on all the good ones and unhelpful on the bad ones.

nim_2

With all these people rushing off to add positive reviews you do wonder if Amazon have any safeguards in place to detect astroturfing... if they do this could get interesting.

phoebe03cat

Another positive review sent!

suzieq

tomstickland wrote:

One bad review is not going to cause a book to drop down the ratings.

Have you read this thread through?? If so, then you will have seen Martin's posts, and wouldn't need to ask that question. :rolleyes:

suzieq

nim wrote:

With all these people rushing off to add positive reviews you do wonder if Amazon have any safeguards in place to detect astroturfing... if they do this could get interesting.

With 'astroturfing' being describe as this:

"They are instructed on what to say, how to say it, where to send it, and how to make it appear that their indignation, appreciation, joy, or hate is entirely spontaneous and independent"

I really don't think any of us have anything to worry about, after all, we are legitimately reviewing a book we've read, and certainly not being instructed to do so!

Joe_Bloggs

Don't worry Martin.
@Tim_L
If you want to know how to stand an egg on its end then you need at least three precisely positioned grains of salt. You could just scatter a pinch of salt and try your luck.
J_B. (Not a member of the Magic Circle.)

jo_b_2

There are now two negative reviews at the top of the Amazon page! :eek:

Finally motivated me to add a glowing review of my own!