Excellent! 5 stars. Or maybe 1 star...

[luckykaa]

Amazon customer reviews make me terrified of buying anything!

I'm looking for a food processor for my parents.   Theaverage review is useless to me because the score depends on how useful the customer found it, not how good it it.  So I look at the actual comments.  I tend to look at the top rated reviews and the low scoring reviews.

On one hand you have the comments "This is an amazing device, since buying it I have found cooking a delight, I've managed to become the worlds greatest chef and have started to make serious inroads into world hunger" and on the other you have "This is a terrible decvice.  the blades jammed when i tried making breadcrumbs, I used it once an d a crack appeared.  The second time I used it it caused a nuclear meltdown and now the entire area for 30 miles is uninhabitable".

It bemuses me that some people have such troubles with a device that others seem to find so great.  What are the 1-star raters doing wrong?

Comments

[tictactoepony.livejournal.com]

Maybe they've entirely randomly got a "Friday afternoon special"....

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[tyrshundr.livejournal.com]

I encountered the same phenomenon (d'-do-d'-do-do) when researching an energy-saving daylight desk lamp. One of them was terrible/great: everyone who thought it was great talked about the light it gave; everyone who thought it as terrible talked about how it fell apart after a short while; those who thought it was great but commented on its fragility also commented no how easy it was to fix using only brass rod and locking nuts.

[eglantinedreams.livejournal.com]

Easy answer. Don't buy a processor, buy a kenwood chef instead :P