How online reviews are crucial

RunnerChick

Interesting piece in the Guardian - they write about restaurants, but I can see the same argument applying to clothes and accessories too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life.....estaurants

I always read -- and am influenced by -- the online reviews when I shop for an item online.

13 years ago

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Interesting. I'm more likely to take reviews into account when shopping for books to read for fun or booking hotels, but it definitely has an impact on me in the latter case. Though I do take reviews with a grain of salt. If they are really just a rant about some unfortunate incident, I usually ignore them.

13 years ago

Laurinda

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I just read an article that it is easy to skew reviews, but I do find them helpful. Especially on electronic products where someone might mention a bug (or a feature) I would not have noticed otherwise.

13 years ago

anne

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They certainly influence my clothing purchases, and a few times where I have chosen to ignore a review and order it anyway I have wished I had taken more notice of them!

13 years ago

deb

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I always use the online reviews. Especially for shoes.

13 years ago

DeniseP

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I usually read the reviews, but lean on the cynical side of whether to believe them, b/c the reviewers "could" be fake. That's just my opinion.

13 years ago

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