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I realize my sample review is more evenly distributed than most. Please not to be discrediting my point.

It’s all so pointless. I have explained to Her Stoatliness the precise location of the Bentley showroom, after all…

Oh! Amazon … reviews.

Ummm. ’tis a minefield. Do not go there.

Every review that isn’t labeled “verified purchase” is trash. There is a large fool pool out there, eager to complain about anything all the time, and usually all they do is show off their own stupidity. I see the same thing on the recipe sites. “This recipe is awful. I followed it exactly, except I used lemon juice instead of sugar, organic yak hair powder instead of flour, Tabasco instead of vanilla and then added some leftover pork chops from 3 weeks ago. Everyone hated it!!” And her baby probably is ugly too.

I still have to get something for my brother, he’s impossible to buy for because he has no hobbies or interests.

I’ve been using Amazon a lot, ya…I usually go by what percentage of reviewers gave it 5 stars, 4 stars etc…if only 1% gave it 1 star, I ignore them.

Just do this instead:
http://www.theospark.net/2008/05/story-of-our-times.html
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I use a sort of weird algorithm of

Gotta have at least 80 percent 5’s
Can’t have very many 3’s
Less than 10 percent 1’s.

And I read all the 1’s. Yeah most of the 1’s are stupid stuff like “Box arrived upside down” but if there’s a consistent theme, that’s worth paying attention to.

I will read a few of the 5’s but they’re much less useful than the 1’s.

I will say that we have have really really good experiences returning things to Amazon but they have that goin’ for them.

Out of money, anyway. I love gift giving, but from now on I’m going to have to be frugal. Sucks.

Regarding Amazon, it helps to see if they really bought the thing. If it says “verified purchase,” you have a better chance of getting a real review. Not always. But better!

Edit: I see Drew beat me to the verified purchase hint. Carry on. 😜

I gave up the gift part (both giving and receiving) of Christmas years ago. (Except for my Mom. She’s set on sending me a box of fruit every year, so I send her a box of candy or some books.) It makes for a much more joyful holiday, if you ask me. Which you didn’t.

Thank heaven for Amazon, otherwise I would be forced to go out there. I love to shop. For many years, I loved to go and touch and smell. But over the years, the rudeness of the assholes has diminished any of the joy of any touching or smelling. Now I sit in the comfort of my own home, generally in pajamas and usually with an adult beverage…it’s the only way to shop.

ive sprung for the whole amazon prime thing…. and it seems all i can get shipped to the frozen freakin north are ebooks. there have been more than a few times i haven’t been able to download even those. doesn’t do a lot of good shipping my family’s gifts to their house in july….. so as far as amazon goes, it’s a solid 1 star. shopping was easy this year… i’m just shipping most of the salmon and halibut i caught to my landlocked relations.

Salmon would be a GREAT gift!

What always gets me is when something requires assembly and multiple reviews say it’s sooo hard to put together…and when I take a chance, it’s *never* hard to assemble. Even the elliptical wasn’t hard to put together.

Granted, my husband and I are both engineers…

Except for *stocking stuffers—I am done. And for the first time in 17 years, Son and His Family are coming to my house for Christmas; they live over the hills and through the woods in Missouri, so we usually meet at a more centrally located relative’s house.

This year I Christmas-shopped from JCPenney, Macy’s, and Amazon. JCP took forever to deliver, which may explain why the company is in so much financial trouble. We’ve had Amazon Prime—I think—since the first year it started. We order from Amazon all the time, and get our beloved Kona coffee beans via Amazon auto-delivery.

I DO read the reviews, with a jaundiced eye, and as others have noted, I only read “verified purchases.”

*Stocking stuffers in my family are unchanged since my mother was a child in the 1920s: an orange, a handful of nuts (still in the shell), chocolate candy, nail clippers for boys, a nail file for girls, and a magazine or comic book as appropriate.

I don’t want to talk about it. The @$:#!!!@$!####### Windows Fall Creator thingie ate my PC yesterday and created a fall fail that ate my browser, all my games and even the device drivers for my net connects.

Now I’ll probably be swindled by tech son 2 into using that as an excuse to do what you’re doing Mdm Sweas. It’s like he works for the military industrial complex wanting to spend my hard earned taxed dollars on new tech toys (Oh wait…he really does)

Damn Microsoft kids tore up my lawn! Get off my lawn!

Now how am I supposed to finish making Europe safe for Stalin?

New Dead Pool on Friday?

Oh, Durnedyankee, I feel ya! I got it yesterday, too. For some fool reason, it ate my scanner driver.

Who died, Carl?

Max Clifford, imprisoned scumbag publicist. Yewtree put ’em in the clink.