Amazon.com pre-reviewing....

[stpauler]

The Star Wars Trilogy is coming out on DVD in a little less than a month. Right now there are 901 reviews of this product when presumably none of these people have it. (Maybe a couple got them beforehand, but I'm sure not 901 of them.) My opinion would be to stop people from reviewing until the official release date so that the consumer (me ) doesn't have to wade through the crapulence of reviews of people that haven't even touched the item. Is that so wrong?

[Lobsang]

No, Maybe they should have an identical previews section.

[ultrafilter]

Do you really think that having the product is going to make a huge difference in these peoples' opinions?

[Moon-Watcher]

I assumed most of those reviews would have the usual This text refers to the VHS Tape

They don't. <sigh>

[Eliahna]

I've noticed the same thing in the past with expansion packs for The Sims. Reviews such as "I gave it 5 stars bcuz its gonna be AWESOM! This will be the best one EVA!" are not helpful. I recall emailing Amazon and suggesting they lock down the reviews section on pre-orders, but they never responded.