re: Amazon's user review system is worthless

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The quicker you realize that and do your due diligence, the better off you'll be.

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its a shame too. people dont have the time to become experts about every single product they purchase and figure out when amazon is not being honest.* *(amazon sellers are not being honest made worse through amazon's flawed review/rating systems)

is that mediabridge router horrible? no. but its pretty mediocre and clearly overpriced.

would most people who just want a router for their cable modem ever look 'behind the curtain' and select something different?

most likely not.

i got burned (no pun intended) by a $9 tea kettle because i just didnt care enough to look beyond the fact it had 30x more reviews than any other tea kettle.

yep, my fault but the point is that people assume if there's a product with a billion reviews in a particular category at amazon, people must love it or they wouldnt have come back & rated a damn tea kettle.

turns out they probably didn't. its a case of this product's reviews being bot-ted out to make it the category leader at amazon.