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Fakespot Guard — Protect yourself from bad sellers on Amazon, eBay & Walmart
Fakespot Guard protects you from unreliable 3rd party sellers on Amazon, eBay and Walmart. Guard will also detect counterfeiters, fake products and used products.
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@rrhoover Thank you for your comment, Ryan! It is unfortunate however the scale of the problems are rapidly increasing on eCommerce from everything we've seen in the last 5 years since Fakespot's inception.
We leverage machine learning to detect shady and scammy sellers. We have amassed over 8 billion reviews that are used for our unsupervised and supervised training for models that looks for specific signals for sellers that may sell you a counterfeit, diverted or fake products. We also have identifiers for sellers that may have had their accounts hacked/hijacked (a bigger problem than you may know).
If you're curious why Fakespot Guard marked a seller as a "Warning" or "Caution", hover over our badge and we will list of reasons that specify why the determination was made.
Awesome!, I've been using this reviewmeta.com , that fact that it's integrated in the actual website makes it much easier! great!
@raijman Thanks for the kind words. We have more features coming very soon. Please let us know what we can improve and what would be helpful to you while shopping online by emailing us at extension@fakespot.com.
@katehunter28 That's not a bad strategy at all. Nowadays, even when looking at the aggregate, it may have been manipulated and faked so it is good to understand eCommerce fraud as you're researching products online.
We all know someone who bought something on Amazon and when they received it, it was something else (or just plain crap). An out of the box initiative :)!
@bujold19 Indeed. It's scary how many of these stories also end up with "toxins" and "dangerous chemicals" because the seller is selling counterfeits.
@bujold19 Thanks for sharing this story. We think it's important that Amazon and other eCommerce marketplaces are held to the same standards as brick and mortar stores when it comes product quality and safety. They should not be able to hide behind out-of-date laws and tech to rip people off and/or harm them.
@nicolas_bui Yes, for now Guard works on Amazon.com, eBay and Walmart. We will be adding support for other regions soon!
Awesome product, excited to try it out especially during the holiday shopping season!
@saniya_shah Thank you, Saniya! We are big fans of Pilota's latest Chrome extension!
Hello ProductHunters, we are excited to announce Fakespot Guard, real time protection that lets you know if you're buying from an unscrupulous 3rd party seller that can end up with you getting a counterfeit, fake or used/damaged products.
We have seen a sharp rise in these problems in the last couple of months and are excited to leverage our proprietary artificial intelligence technology to protect our users when they shop online from eCommerce fraud. Fakespot Guard supports Amazon, Walmart and eBay. Our technology will detect fly-by-night sellers that have hacked accounts, for example, and many other tactics that these types of sellers use.
If there are any questions or feedback, we'd love to hear it. We are constantly working on improving Fakespot and Fakespot Guard, so please leave a comment!
This is really awesome!!! Yesterday, I searched reviews about some product on Amazon and found Fakespot Guard. It's very helps to choose the right thing. Thank you.
@adokarasev Thank you for your comment!! We are so glad it is helpful for when you are shopping.
Any plans to add a safari extension? I prefer not to use chrome due to my own data being harvested.
Great idea, is there a feature where you can get sort by (eliminate) fake reviews too?
@siamohajer Yes, that is a core feature on our extension and we released a beta feature for sorting on Amazon's search page (.com only for now).
Amazing product. This is super useful for me! Are you going to add this extension for Firefox?
@itnon Thank you for your kind words. Yes, we are planning to release an FF extension in the near future!
@arseniyw Browser extensions are powerful mediums for our technology to provide real-time results as our users browse. Static or marketplace integration would not have the same effect and with everything that is fraud, real-time detection beats all other types of analysis (static, etc).
What's the revenue model for the business ? Are you making affiliate commission from the sales at supported stores ?
@anton_rachitskiy Our service is completely free and we do not make money from affiliate.
This is really interesting and useful, any news on the reception by online retailers? It seems that they should be in charge to monitor and take out bad actors on their plaforms. Cheers.
@pcopelmayer Great comment. They are simply getting inundated with the amount of fraud on their platforms as they are doing 1000s things at the same time.
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