Fakespot Reviews in June 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Fakespot Abuse Class Action Lawsuit

Fakespot is a scam site that targets companies having sold products on Amazon clamming they have algorithms that detect fake reviews then scoring them and posting there so called bot interpreted finding a score rating. The question is who is validating what they find? I guess if dig through this pile of 1 star reviews of both people and company owners wishing that they could rate them a negative 5 out of 5 stars or simply look in to what many others have said you will find that this scam ...

Fakespot Abuse Class Action Lawsuit

Fakespot is a scam site that targets companies having sold products on Amazon clamming they have algorithms that detect fake reviews then scoring them and posting there so called bot interpreted finding a score rating. The question is who is validating what they find? I guess if dig through this pile of 1 star reviews of both people and company owners wishing that they could rate them a negative 5 out of 5 stars or simply look in to what many others have said you will find that this scam ...

Grade based on 4 reviews?

I've used fakespot for about 6 months. I understand machine learning still requires human data points and thresholds, and more data! Here is what I don't like: I have a new product on Amazon for which I've only heard good things directly from buyers, and on Amazon. There are only 4 reviews on Amazon, 2 of which are people that must have purchased through my Shopify store. On Amazon they are not "verified". I can't do anything about this. I understand why Fakespot considers these ...

Great at spotting Fake Trip Advisor…

Great at spotting Fake Trip Advisor reviews. Not only did it save me from booking a company listed on Trip Advisor turns out the company isn't anything more than a website. Shady as hell. It's hard to see the fake reviews but with a little digging it was crystal clear. Seems like Trip Advisor is more interested in getting bookings than vetting their suppliers. I bet most of the bad reviews on here are the people that get paid to write reviews.

Fakespot was good to evaluate Trip Advisor : 40% Fake - I agree completely

I just used this website for the 1st time for Tripadvisor for a lodge in Botswana called Vumburas Plains camp, owned by www.wilderness-safaris and i get a slam for 3200 USD per night so i was very angry.. I makes years they deleted without any notice my reviews for some companies and i was scam by some lodges displaying a rating a 4.5 on 5 when the real value is 1 or sometimes zero. And when a lodge or hotel has such rating, they feel confident to increase their rates at the level of hotels ...

Badly needed service

Customer ratings on Amazon don't mean much anymore as some sellers pay money to get 5 star reviews. So a service like Fakespot is badly needed. I've tested it on a few products and it seems to give some good indication of the quality of reviews. I don't suspect Fakespot would be bribed by thousands of Amazon sellers but I do doubt how effective their methodology is. Having said that, before buying anything from Amazon I have gotten into the habit of passing it through Fakespot. It works ...

Seems to work really well

Date of experience: October 31, 2018

Absolute trash

Absolute trash. I put in my Amazon product page which has only genuine reviews and I know because I own it, and this crappy site says there is high deception??! I think they just randomly guess so take any results with a huge dose of salt...

One of the most useful websites I use

One of the most useful websites I use. It works well at deciding which products have a large percentage of suspicious-looking reviews and saves me from reading through and discounting them myself. Of course, certain new reviewers may attract false positives, but overall the system works well. I just wish that Amazon would do something about this scourge - leaving fake reviews in exchange for free pound shop junk is a bit like peeing in the pool.

One of the most useful websites I use

One of the most useful websites I use. It works well at deciding which products have a large percentage of suspicious-looking reviews and saves me from reading through and discounting them myself. Of course, certain new reviewers may attract false positives, but overall the system works well. I just wish that Amazon would do something about this scourge - leaving fake reviews in exchange for free pound shop junk is a bit like peeing in the pool.