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What It Costs to Buy a Five-Star Review on Amazon
The reviews are fake, but the money is very real
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2 min readFeb 25, 2021
€9,000, or $10,950: That’s how much it costs to purchase 1,000 fake Amazon reviews from AMZTigers, one of a number of “review manipulation services” that boost the ratings and sales of third-party merchants on Amazon, according to an investigation by…