# Amazon.com pre-reviewing....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-pre-reviewing/261517
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 25, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-pre-reviewing/261517 "2004-08-25T23:38:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-pre-reviewing/261517/1 "2004-08-25T23:38:42Z")
The Star Wars Trilogy is coming out on [DVD](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXCT/qid=1093476727/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-9617307-8368657?v=glance&s=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?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-pre-reviewing/261517/2 "2004-08-25T23:54:36Z")
No, Maybe they should have an identical _pre_views section.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-pre-reviewing/261517/3 "2004-08-26T00:53:13Z")
Do you really think that having the product is going to make a huge difference in these peoples’ opinions?
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### Author:  [@Moon-Watcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moon-Watcher)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-pre-reviewing/261517/4 "2004-08-26T03:18:40Z")
I assumed most of those reviews would have the usual _This text refers to the VHS Tape_
They don’t. \
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2004, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-pre-reviewing/261517/5 "2004-08-26T11:13:27Z")
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.