With multiple editions, multiple formats, multiple releases and such, WHY does amazon.com lump all the reviews for certain titles on one page? Reviews for VHS tapes still show up under the DVD page and on the Blu-Ray listings we now have reviews for VHS, DVD and the Blu-Ray. And if there is more than one edition of the same title, both editions share the same reviews, so you're reading reviews for one edition that has nothing to do with it because it's for something else.

Seriously, how can they allow this? If I post a review on a certain page for a certain product, I would expect it to show for that item alone, not be posted every time a new edition for that title comes out, or even on a whole new format for that title.

Maybe back in the early days of DVD this was easier to get through on their site, but for more popular titles it's getting difficult trying to figure out what review you are reading for which edition and format. It's frustrating.

I'm always drawn to reading some of the reviews, but I agree that it could be set up so much better. I dislike that the reviews are based on different things. Some folks rate the actual product, some are rating Amazon.com and their speed of delivery while still others will throw in a rating based on the price of the item.

Even better yet when they throw in something completely random. My favorite was a review for Toy Story and the reviewer said the movies were anti-Christian because the only way toys could talk was through demonic possession.

(I tried to find it now...either the review was taken down or I didn't save the link right...)

http://www.amazon.com/Story-Two-Disc...R2LGESR0I778B1

But here is the review...

I also hate how they can let users purposely vote down a product with their ratings and flood them with 1 star reviews. Although it certainly does lead to some humorous situations.

To OP I agree 100%. You can never get a true feeling of how a certain product is because of that foolishness.

My most annoying reviews are when some fucktard leaves a one-star review on the product page because they're pissed at an Amazon Marketplace seller.

It actually terrifies me that people this stupid are sharing the planet with me.

The other annoying thing is allowing people to review stuff that's not even released yet. I've noticed it in DVDs and Blu Rays but I understand it's even worse in book reviews.

To me they are "Fan Boys", "People who like to see their name in print" or "Assholes". Or all three.

So I just ignore any reviews that are dated prior to the release date.

And there are people who rebel against it. They post 1 star reviews to negate the 5 star ones. And vice versa. Really ludicrous.

There is a little war going on now with the Alien Anthology release.

Just ruins the star rating aspect of the system so most of the time you just have to ignore it.

James

This drives me nuts about the book reviews. It's clear the reviewer hasn't read the book, but they dislike the author's position or want to rant on the topic so they use it as a soap box to spout their crap.

What surprises me is a lot of them will start off by saying "I haven't read the book, but I'm planning to." You would think Amazon could easily delete these since they're admitting to not actually reading the book they're reviewing.

Totally, this drives me nuts...

I hate when you get to a product that has 3 reviews, 2 of them are 1 star reviews that share the exact same complaints and 1 is a 5 star that praises every aspect. It's obvious that the 2 star reviews were written by a competitor and the 5 star by the company selling the product.

I like when someone's review is a criticism of the length of time it took to receive the item or a complaint about a marketplace seller. You have people giving The Godfather 1 star because some marketplace seller shipped a copy too slow.

Or when people review an item before it comes out (see: Alien Anthology Blu-Ray Set).

yes, this makes me wonder how the said people even made it online to place said order.

Citizen Kane:

1 star "seller sent scratched disc and never replied to my e-mail"

What gets me is how people can leave obviously inept reviews even before a product comes out but Amazon won't let me add mine because I didn't purchase the item from them.

I love reading the customer reviews. I just weed through the morons and have gotten a lot of very good info on the various products. If you don't like them, don't read them. They're pretty easy to ignore.

Exactly. There are great reviews on almost every product I've ever looked at on Amazon. Some of the DVD reviews are as good as the ones on professional sites. Just ignore the chaff.

I love the people who feel the need to recapitulate the plot of a book/movie, even though Amazon includes a synopsis and 50 other reviewers have already done the same thing. It's even more ridiculous when the book/movie is very well known ("The Wizard Of Oz is about a girl from Kansas who...").

I don't mind the customer reviews, but sometimes it is annoying to have to weed out the fanboys to get a decent honest review.

A lot of the times when i'm on the fence about a product, I will read a bunch of reviews to help sway me one way or another.

Then there's also a 1-star review that praises every aspect because they didn't understand the system.

I'm looking up a movie to buy that's released by a couple different distributors and most of the reviews are about the movie itself. I want to know what the condition and contents of the dvd or Blu-ray is. I know there is dvdbeaver, but they don't always have reviews of certain titles to compare.

I hate reading reviews, looking for blu info, and they are talking about the dvd from 2002. Why cant they figure out a way to keep reviews separate and pertinent to the specific item.

Agreed. Especially with multiple editions of the same title on the same format, it becomes very annoying. Worse when they are talking about the film in general.

For most products, I tend to read only the most negative reviews, IE 1 and 2 stars.

I think it's due the fact that Amazon hire and pay to writters. They just saving money showing the same review for all editions.

My all time favorite amazon.com review was a one star review given to Citizen Kane because it was in black and white and also that Marlon Brando couldn't act.