Yes, it is I the clickbait king who has tricked you into watching an actually useful video jokes aside, though
We are going to be going over not just one but three
Different websites that are gonna certainly save you some time and money the next time you shop online and this is gonna be especially useful
If you're watching this during the holiday season now despite the title of this video if you didn't already know about these websites
I'm not gonna blame you or call you stupid for not using them obviously, but if after this video
You still don't use them. Well, then that's your fault and I will point out by the way
This is not a sponsored video in any way
so anyway
these three websites are review met a fake spot and camel camel camel the first two have to do with
Analyzing Amazon reviews and determining whether or not they're reliable so you can actually trust the rating or not
Or maybe it has a lot of fake reviews that sort of thing and the third website camel camel camel I have talked about this
in the past is
for analyzing the price history of products and seeing whether or not maybe
Despite a product being on sale like best sale ever
Maybe the price was actually lower at a previous date so you can see that
so first of all
let's go over the review analysis websites how they work in general is though look at the reviews and
Look at things like the age of the accounts that made them how many reviews this?
reviewer has left the
Wording used that sort of thing and you could probably use common sense on when to decide to actually use these sites
You don't have to look at every single product
You're gonna buy for example, if it's a big name brand, they're probably not gonna be paying for fake reviews on Amazon
They just don't care
But if it is like a very generic product
You know the kind that people buy from China and they rebranded as a million different things
You're not really sure if it's reliable, or maybe it's an especially expensive item or an item
That seems like it might be prone to not working. Well, it's just something that breaks a lot
So you want to be sure that this particular listing has actual real reviews of people saying it works, right?
But as you'll see you
Definitely want to take these with a big grain of salt because even these two that I'm gonna be talking about don't necessarily agree
So we'll go over that. So the first we can go over is review meta
this is my favorite of the two because I think they go a little more in-depth and
The ratings make a little bit more sense to me
They're a bit more open about how they actually rate them and how it works is really simple
You can see they simply remove potentially unnatural reviews and just give an adjusted rating
But if you scroll down you'll actually see what they're calling a report card for more details and on some of the specific criteria
They went into that are either pass warned or fail
So for example, you can see things like how many suspicious reviewers there were like brand repeats
If someone in a review keeps mentioning the name of the brand that's kind of odd
Maybe they were paid to say it and also phrase repetition
for example
If there's a lot of reviews that all say the same obscure phrase then that could suggest
That they're all from some review bot farm. That was just paid to leave very similar reviews
Just slightly rewarded and then you can kind of throw all those out because they might not be real and also interestingly
It'll show you what are called take back reviewers. So those are people who have had reviews deleted in the past
so they might not be the most reliable reviewers and also interesting is you can actually see the difference in average rating between
Reviews that were thrown out and ones that were passed so through if there's a huge difference than those
You know that they probably were not the best also there are browser extensions available for this
So no matter what you're using it basically supports Chrome Firefox Safari even Microsoft edge
So no matter what browsers are using you can have this one. All right
Now the next website is called fake spot and it also reviews Amazon reviews. And this is my lesser favorite of the two
I don't think it's as reliable but it does have one big advantage in that it doesn't just support Amazon reviews
But also other sites like Best Buy
Walmart
steam even like Yelp reviews so it can do a lot and you'll see the main thing about this site is instead of giving just
An adjusted review which it does that but the main thing it'll give is a review grade and I actually don't really like this
grade lettering system
It does seem a bit arbitrary and one important thing to note is that this is not grading the product itself
just the quality of the reviews so you could have a product that is like really crappy has terrible terrible reviews like
One-star rating, but it might have an A rating
And that just means that the reviews are reliable not the product itself
So you might be kind of confused by that and one really good example of this
Is this random one terabyte thumb drive on Amazon for like 20 bucks?
these are scams through through you see these all over the place where they basically fake the capacity of the thumb drive and
Obviously this has a terrible review rating. Everyone's saying this is a scam
It's like two and a half stars
But then it also has an A rating which just means yeah all the people saying it's crap are reliable
But if you don't know that you go on and you're like, oh well
This must be actually a good product even though the rating sucks. No, it's the exact opposite
So anyway instead of looking at the actual letter grade
It does actually show the adjusted rating which you can look at similar to review Mehta
And also if you scroll down it will show more details about the reliability of the reviews
so for example
it'll show things like how
suspiciously positive the reviews are which I mean could just mean that a lot of people really liked the product and
also
It'll show you what percentage are
reliable, which I think is probably the main number you want to look at and also another thing to point out is it does seem
Like this site is really heavy-handed and very strict with how they letter grade their reviews
anyway
So there might be a product that the adjusted review is basically exactly the same as the regular review
Rating but it'll have like an F letter grade
So, I don't know you I would again not even look at the letter grade grading
It just kind of look at the details in combination with the review meta of reading and also fake spot does have a Chrome extension
But again, I would just probably disable the thing where it shows the letter grade because to me that's personally useless
But it's up to you. And obviously you want to take both of these sites with a big grain of salt
They may completely disagree because they use different algorithms to determine what's reliable. And what's not
So before we get to the final website, we can quickly go over an example of something
I actually bought and I looked up the ratings here
So this is just some random pack of short USB cables
And I thought this was a good example because it's a very generic product
It's extremely cheap and I don't know sellers might have trouble distinguishing from other sellers
So they might be more prone or tempted to leave fake reviews. It does have like a thousand reviews
So that's probably less likely, but we can still look at like review meta
It goes from an adjusted rating of 4.4 down to 4.3. So that's pretty much the same
It says it removed 9 percent of potentially unnatural reviews that again doesn't mean that
10% of the reviews are fake. It just means that
Maybe a couple of them are fake or just the people who leave those reviews
Tend to just leave crap your reviews and down on the report card. There's actually kind of a mixed bag here
so it'll say like word count comparison phrase repetition and
Overlapping review history or fail and then like the warning you have delete or review suspicious reviews
reviewer participation that sort of thing
But again, even these you have to take with a grain of salt because looking at like phrase repetition
Which was a fail really there's only 20 of each out of a thousand reviews
That's not too bad and they're kind of generic phrases like exactly what I needed. I don't know
I've probably left a review saying that and there's only 20 of them USB charging station
I mean, this is probably a product where you would be using that
So again, I wouldn't even think that's too suspicious even though the algorithm says to fail
So really you still have to do some due diligence again
This is probably gonna be for stuff that you know, you really want to know whether you're buying a decent product or not
You're willing to spend a bit extra time analyzing it and then funny enough
if you look at the fake spot rating, it'll actually give it an F and it says
Insufficient reliable reviews which I think is kind of stupid. There's a thousand reviews really you can't get enough out of that one
so again this website I would kind of use as a backup or on a site that maybe
I don't know review Matt a dozen support, but you can still look at both of them and kind of get an idea
All right. Now the final website is called camel camel camel
There is also a Chrome extension for this and Firefox extension as well
And this is just for Amazon prices so you can literally see a graph of the price of a certain product
over time and this actually does differentiate between Amazon prices at
Third-party prices used prices so you can see exactly and I find this pretty obviously useful because you know an Amazon
Literally, everything is shown as having a discount
So you can't really trust it and even like on Black Friday Cyber Monday these special deal days, you know
I've looked at products and seeing wow. This is not even the cheapest. It's ever been
What the heck so you might want to think twice about jumping?
Onto suppose a deal when it's not even that great of a deal. This one's pretty self-explanatory
You probably see exactly how it works just from looking at it here
So I probably don't have to go too much in detail about it
But it is really useful and I use it all the time. So anyway, that's it
but if you guys want to keep watching another video
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