OzBargain Review Page for Products

Should there be a page for fellow Ozbargainer’s to add reviews of products that they have bought. I think that productreview.com.au is dodgy and would rather have reviews from the OzBargain community. I think there should be another tab next to forums called reviews where product reviews can be written. Write your opinion below and vote in the polls.

Poll Options

  • 92
    There should be a reviews page
  • 6
    There should not be a reviews page

Comments

  • +2

    People tend to write their opinions on the comments of the actual posts but having a dedicated section might be worthwhile too.

    • That’s true but it would be much easier if we were able to just search by product and find reviews rather than digging through comments.

  • +35

    min 1 year membership before being allowed to write a review
    .

    • That makes sense.

    • Pffft

      • Im just not sure if you've only been around for 2 days. Something seems off.

        • Found out just before Black Friday.

  • +5

    Agreed. Wanted to see reviews on Kmart's Black Friday products

    • For now just create a forum cause I don’t see this happening right now, it’s gonna take some time to implement if it does.

    • I’m really curious about the robot vacuum

  • +4

    Also need a method to verify that the item reviewed has indeed been purchased and used by the reviewer. Could simply be a photograph of the product/receipt with a scrap of paper that has your OzBargain username on it in the photo. However, I am sure there are smarter ways to do this

    • +3

      On reddit if you want to privately verify something you can submit it so only mods can see it.
      Could do something similar if you don’t have a receipt, maybe take a photo with the item while holding a bit of paper with something identifying on it so a mod/power user can review it.

  • +3

    Good idea, you could call it ProductReview

    • +2

      Your sarcasm is not appreciated

  • If there are tools in place to help with preventing dodgy reviews from being submitted here also, and a min criteria to post a review, then sure

    • I’m guessing OzBargain is gonna create good guidelines.

  • You'll never be able to control the quality of the reviews and which ones are shills or just incompetence of the end user. Not something I would use personally as there's enough info about almost anything around to make your own mind up.

    • Sometimes it just helps to get others opinion though.

    • But you would soon learn who are the good reviewers and who are incompetent

  • +3

    Sounds good, avoid having to trawl through every previous posting of the same item to figure out what people think.

    Alternatively; maybe the ability to tag a comment as a review and the search for the specific tags?

    • That’s also good but it reviews for products should be searchable like deals for products.

      • There's already pages for products so it's just adding a tag to make it searchable.

        Don't forget someone will be having to work on making it work.

        • +1

          That’s true and I am just putting forward an idea. Dunno if this will even get made.

  • +3

    Great idea, I would love to contribute with reviews if this goes ahead

  • Great idea!!!

  • -2

    Good idea. Plus I think it would be nice to have some of those things like "cash back" explained in more detail.
    I see things like $1 cash back… what a waste of time… when you receive Velocity points on other sites.

  • And product page should also have price history

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