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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I'm sorry this happened to you, but so glad you have the courage to write about your experience. I know many people would have just sucked it up, so as to not cause any unpleasantness, but unless we hear about negative experiences from vendors, we can't really be sure how honest the positive reviews are. I fully support you writing about your experience, and I'm sorry this left you with a bad feeling. No one has to donate a prize to the contest, the prizes make the contest a little more exciting, but when something like this happens to you, you feel like you'd rather not have won anything. |
Since I feel like I have gotten to know Nancy over the years here AND I have seen her post about this topic before, I think I immediately took her post as she intended and not how some read the words. It might have been an unfortunate choice of wording, but I know that Nancy was in
no way inpuning the integrity of the individual positive reviewers.
I think what she is saying is that the
overall positive review picture is not nearly as believable if only positive reviews are seen. If you have a Review Forum and 99% of all reviews on all products are positive, you sort of doubt the overall accuracy -- not the individual's experiences with the products or their word, but you feel like too many negative experiences are not being voiced. On the other hand, if you see 85% positive and 15% negative (and I am just pulling numbers out of thin air as an example), then you feel like people feel comfortable enough to report any experience -- good or bad. Now -- if a product has ALL product reviews that is fine as long as you see other products are occasionally getting a negative review. It is easy to believe no one has had a bad experience about one product, but it is NOT easy to believe that all experiences with all products are positive.
In short -- she is not disbelieving the individual positive reviewers at all, she is saying if negatives are never received the overall positive picture is probably distorted. I hope this helps and doesn't just further complicate this issue.
