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Do you leave reviews for items bought on line?

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Bazza Wed 10-Jun-26 11:57:40

I rely a lot on other people’s reviews if I’m buying something on line, particularly from Ocado. It occurred to me that I should be leaving reviews myself because I’m using other people’s. Do you leave reviews, and I don’t mean when you’ve been asked to, just to give your opinion to others.

poppysmum Thu 11-Jun-26 16:28:01

yes always leave reviews good or bad. I am not rude but if something is not up to scratch then I think it is fair to let other buyers know what is what. For instance I recently bought some little plastic baskets to put odds and ends in the bathroom like shampoo etc. It is a well known site beginning with A so I said something like one was already broke, picked up another nothing in it and it broke as well. bit smaller than I thought not very good value. it should hopefully save someone money. I also do good reviews if deserved

Labradora Thu 11-Jun-26 18:02:48

I leave reviews only for exceptionally good or exceptionally bad experiences.
Otherwise I'd spend half my life online reviewing products.
I realise the value of reviews otherwise there'd be no Trustpilot. I 'd do more if the reviews requested weren't so length and detailed.

Bukkie Thu 11-Jun-26 18:04:21

I leave reviews for something that is fantastic or something that is dire. I get cross when I see silly reviews telling me the Amazon delivery driver was grumpy. That's got nothing to do with the product.

MissAdventure Thu 11-Jun-26 21:24:05

I like the ones that say "I ordered this last Wednesday, or maybe Tuesday, because i always take mum shopping on Wednesdays since she isn't as mobile as she was since she had a bad fall last Christmas, or was it Easter" and that kind of thing smile

REKA Thu 11-Jun-26 21:31:14

MissAdventure

I like the ones that say "I ordered this last Wednesday, or maybe Tuesday, because i always take mum shopping on Wednesdays since she isn't as mobile as she was since she had a bad fall last Christmas, or was it Easter" and that kind of thing smile

Ah yes, I enjoy those as well.

There's some fabulous reviews here. Excellent one about a woman getting her girlie pen

www.boredpanda.com/funny-amazon-reviews/

MissAdventure Thu 11-Jun-26 21:37:40

Oh thanks!
Does it include the one from man trying Nair on his nether regions? I just looked at the first of those reviews "My husband doesn't allow me to write..."
I'll need to sit with a,cuppa (and a torch, and my glasses) and have a read in daylight.

WithNobsOnIt Fri 12-Jun-26 01:42:51

Yes, always for whatever l buy or l am thinking of buying. I know you can get fake reviews but find a lot are genuine and can be very helpful.

Don't do Amazon at all. Don't like the way they operate and treat their supliers and undercut prices.

Never do home deliveries.

I also find the product information to be very useful. I only do Click and Collect with about five retailers so this is handy feature for me.

TripAdvisor can also be useful.

nexus63 Fri 12-Jun-26 01:51:38

i buy a lot from amazon and some other online retailers, my reviews for some go on trustpilot, amazon are very picky if you leave a bad review, i bought a cardigan and it came vacuum packed, it was not an item that could be ironed, i put on the review how it came but amazon would not let the review be published, i think something like that should be said as it would have stopped me buying it and wasting £18 for something that is still full of creases after months of hanging.

Jane43 Fri 12-Jun-26 09:05:29

We do buy quite a lot from Amazon because we have Prime, usually if we can’t find something in the local shops and because it is so easy to send things back. I do leave a review if there are very positive or negative points that might help others but they do ask for reviews too quickly.

Granless Fri 12-Jun-26 15:35:56

Now we know why high street shops are closing!

Mollygo Fri 12-Jun-26 20:52:28

Granless

Now we know why high street shops are closing!

It’s a vicious circle though.
2 of our big city stores and one out of town store closed in the early days of the Internet shopping.
The more stores closed, the more the internet prospered.
The more the internet prospered, the more stores closed.
Then the councils thought it was a good idea to put up parking charges.

Now we’re left with phone shops, vape shops, nail bars, pound shops, charity shops and eateries.

nexus63 Sat 13-Jun-26 14:12:04

i understand that shops are closing and i would like to go back to seeing what i am buying but i can't, i am disabled and use a walker, i also have bowel and bladder problems and lyphedema so shopping online is the only way i can buy items that i need, how would i get 2 x 24 packs of toilet rolls back home with no car and using a walker.

FranP Sat 13-Jun-26 18:07:09

If I have time