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minxie Sat 02-Feb-19 10:49:42

It seems that people can’t buy anything on line without checking reviews first. Which is fair enough for expensive items. I ordered a green tie for my partner as I couldn’t find one in town. Up pops the inevitable, please review.
What can you say about a tie,
I replied, it arrived and looked like a tie and tied like a tie
What more can one say !!

Camelotclub Sun 03-Feb-19 14:15:19

I just bought some yarn from Hobbycraft and they asked me how they site could be improved before I'd even paid for it! I wonder if anyone ever looks at this rubbish.

NotSpaghetti Sun 03-Feb-19 14:18:52

HannahLoisLuke - it IS the ONLY review by this man though - And have you seen the photo?
It is certainly a spoof. ?

Amagran Sun 03-Feb-19 14:23:54

Thank you so much MissAdventure - I have laughed til it hurt.

Carolpaint Sun 03-Feb-19 14:30:55

Misadventure, fabulous what a treat. Thanks ????

Happysexagenarian Sun 03-Feb-19 14:33:39

Miss A Just read that review. Hilarious!!! I can't stop laughing. I bookmarked it so I can find it whenever I need a good laugh.

Nanabanana1 Sun 03-Feb-19 15:09:56

MissAdveture
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VIOLETTE Sun 03-Feb-19 15:19:09

Yes ...these annoy me to ...often arriving before I have time to unpack, if its an airline or hotel, etc …...and from some restaurant 'How did we do' ! I am thinking of putting my own request out there for review 'Just flown with your airline/stayed in your hotel.shopped in your shop/...how did I do ...do you rate me as a customer ? should I return ? ….wonder what review I would get grin

Funnygran Sun 03-Feb-19 16:06:26

MissAdventure I love that over 7000 people found the review helpful! Last year I bought a set of 6 dice from Amazon. We have various games for the grandchildren and the dice always seem to go missing. Last week they forwarded a query from a customer who wanted to know what they were like before they bought them. Since they cost under £5 and the photo showed them actual size I didn't feel I could add an awful lot grin

lovebeigecardigans1955 Sun 03-Feb-19 16:17:18

Ha ha Salsaqueen grin. How do we know that any of these reviews are genuine anyway? They could have been written by close friends, etc.

Telly Sun 03-Feb-19 17:16:12

I bought an expensive item before Christmas, had 5 star reviews. I gave it 4 stars, nice item but overpriced. The review was never published!

GabriellaG54 Sun 03-Feb-19 17:30:40

Funnygran
I would have written in reply, '6×6s, 6×5s, 6×4s, 6x3s, 6x2s, 6x1s' wink

Blacktabby2 Sun 03-Feb-19 17:32:14

Miss adventure we are crying with laughter at the Amazon review!!!!

PECS Sun 03-Feb-19 17:36:50

I rarely look at reviews or trip adivsor reviews. It is too easy for false info to be posted, I try hard to buy direct from shops if I can. Sometimes I do have to find what I need via online shopping … more so as I can't walk far just now. I don't fill them is either!

MissAdventure Sun 03-Feb-19 17:46:35

Oh I'm glad you all liked the review. smile
Made me laugh too.
Maybe we should all write ones like that?

pinkquartz Sun 03-Feb-19 18:52:07

I don't understand why anyone would get annoyed just because a review has been requested.
If you shop online as I need to, then reviews can be very helpful.
There is a very simple way to approach writing a review, it goes: Did you like or dislike the item or book and why?
That's all.
And if you take the mindset that giving your feedback could benefit other people what is the harm? It is altruistic really to think of passing some information around for free.
Surely Most Grans want to spread some good around?
And you can always ignore the request which is often what I do. If I don't want to review I don't.

Glosgran Sun 03-Feb-19 19:59:04

Laughed so much reading Miss Adventure's link that I was almost hysterical and it physically hurt! My husband thought I'd lost the plot. I'll get him to read it later and see if he finds it as funny as I did. Reminds me of the time my brother used the Domestos Surface Wipes (that my sister in law had put on top of the toilet cistern) thinking they were moist toilet wipes.

Jalima1108 Sun 03-Feb-19 20:13:35

I liked it MissA but laughed even more at the fact that he gave it five stars!!
grin
Perhaps he's a masochist grin

Onestepbeyond Sun 03-Feb-19 20:55:21

@MissAdventure erm - opps that might have been my hubby....sunshine

Meriel Sun 03-Feb-19 21:57:17

Just read your post MissAdventure and have had to explain to my hubby, who is trying to watch a rather serious tv programme, why I was laughing so much. Thank you.

jenpax Mon 04-Feb-19 06:53:25

MissAdventure I cried with laughter! Brilliant ???

GreenGran78 Mon 04-Feb-19 08:00:27

MissAdventure. You certainly made me start the day with a laugh! I expect, like most men, he didn't bother to read the instructions. I strongly suspect, though, that he has used a bit of poetic licence in his review of the results. GabriellaG54 If you Google 'funny product reviews' you will find plenty more, though perhaps not on a par with MissAdventure's.

BradfordLass72 Mon 04-Feb-19 08:04:15

Review:

"This exceptional tie was lovingly woven by hand from specially chosen silkworms which had been fed on the succulent leaves of the Morus Alba. It was packaged in ecologically sound paper and sent, with haste, to me within hours of my ordering.
My partner, an extraordinarily handsome fellow looked divine as he wore it, with an artfully tied Windsor knot, over his cerise seersucker shirt and multi-coloured slacks. I could not be happier with my purchase."

Nannyxthree Mon 04-Feb-19 09:16:54

I spent time carefully wording a review of a book for Amazon only to have my review rejected as unsuitable shortly afterwards.

Granless Mon 04-Feb-19 17:00:23

Just to sidestep MissAdventure’s Amazon prompt. Only last week hubbie couldn’t sleep for a throbbing knee (we’d done a lot of walking that day). He got out of bed to get some ice. We were actually on holiday and there was none to be had in the freezer but there was a bag of frozen chips. He took this off to bed and placed on knee. What he hadn’t realised was the bag had been opened, so, when he went to move it round his knee, they all spilled out in the bed. So at 3am he got a bowl from kitchen and tried to retrieve said chips from bed. This was all done in the dark, without my knowledge - I slept through his antics.

BBbevan Mon 04-Feb-19 19:52:40

Every time you go to Holland and Barrett, you get an e-mail asking about your experience! Since we go quite often it is now tedious. I used to write 'Went in, bought something, came out' Now it is just 'Same as last time'