Wireless Thermometer Reviews for Dummies - The Freelance Files MMCLI

wireless indoor-outdoor thermometer

No matter what product you're shopping for at "The River," you can bet that you're going to find reviews of most of the available choices. Your problem, of course, is simple: can you trust the reviews? Most people here at the Antisocial Network think you should take them with a grain of salt; not least because the vast majority are written by people unqualified to compare two products. Why? Because they've only experienced one of them. Amazon has attempted to "help" consumers make a choice by hiring freelancers to write "best of" lists. Sadly, most of them are nothing more than an aggregation of the most highly-rated choices written by people who pretend to have "tested" the products. For example, read the bullshit called "Best Indoor/Outdoor Thermometers" published at Amazon.com by BestReviews."

Men's Bike Shorts as Reviewed by Dummies

men's bike shorts

Few things are quicker to raise the ire of one of our staffers than fake reviews. A shopper looking for real experience with a product is supposed to be able to depend on the reviews websites and vendors post, but what happens when you realize that the person who wrote the review had never even seen the product? That's what our staffer figured was going on when he went to Amazon looking for a new pair of bike shorts and stumbled across Allie Fasanella and her editorial recommendation, "The Best Men's Bike Shorts."

Product Reviews by Dummies

Rubbermaid shelving

We've probably mentioned this before, but a couple of the staffers at the Antisocial Network used to hang out at Epinions.com, one of the first websites to capitalize on "real reviews by real consumers." Of course, since reviewers were paid (and sometimes handsomely) for their reviews, more than a few of the reviews turned out to be fake. Whether fake or not, however, it was always interesting and sometimes downright hilarious to see the stupid reasons people had for ranting or raving about a product. Which brings us to today's dumbass, Jill Sanders. 

Unlike AN's usual dumbasses, Jill wasn't writing in a ceaseless search for extra money. No, Jill's a garden-variety dumbass: in reviewing a $250 Rubbermaid shelf kit, Jill told us,