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Why online product research is broken (buyforlife.com)
1 point by hubraumhugo on Aug 14, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



>We recently introduced a new feature on our platform: Recurring Reviews. After every year, the reviewer will receive an automatic reminder to assess the condition of the product and if the reviewer is still happy with it. This is how we can follow the whole lifecycle of a product.

this is a very important aspect. these days I get a feeling that many products are "optimised for initial review & return period" . beyond the free return date , it generally gets nearly impossible to get warranty repairs / replacements from the mfg. And, most reviews on ecommerce sites are from that first-ten-day period.


I've been using Reddit for over a decade and I don't think I've ever used it to research potential product purchases. It doesn't feel very conducive to this purpose (and the article does outline why it isn't necessarily) but perhaps I'm missing out. This isn't a very useful comment, I'm just curious to how many other Redditors this comes as a surprise, and what about Reddit draws so much of that kind of activity. Is it that it's longer form than most other platforms?




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