That $80 'unbreakable' water bottle cracked on day 3

I bought this HydroFlask knockoff from a random brand called IronVault on Amazon because it had 4.8 stars and promised to be 'indestructible'. It hit the pavement getting out of my car and now has a hairline crack that leaks all over my bag. Anyone else fall for those fake reviews on Amazon and lose money on gear that's supposed to last forever?

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williams907d ago

Honestly, did you check the reviews on FakeSpot before you bought it?

nathan_hill607d ago

Fakespot is okay but it mostly catches the obvious stuff like copy-paste reviews from bots (you know the ones that all say the same thing but with a different name). What it doesn't catch is the sneaky "incentivized" reviews where people get a free product and then write a glowing 5-star review that sounds totally real because it kind of is real (they actually used the thing). I watched a guy on YouTube test this with a cheap Bluetooth speaker - 47 out of 50 reviews were positive on Amazon but Fakespot flagged only 12 as suspicious. Turns out the seller was running a Facebook group where people got refunded after leaving a rave review (but they kept the product, so the review was technically "honest"). That's the blind spot nobody talks about - real people leaving fake-sounding positive reviews because they got something for free.