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Or misspellings in 5 stars. Lack of any identifying details in 5 stars.

I look at the 3 and 4 stars. Who would buy fake reviews with 4 stars? Fakers always give 5 stars.

And then I look at how many 1 and 2 stars there are. Total count of them not particularly what they are saying. Again fake reviews are 5 stars but if there are 100s of 1 and 2 stars stay away.

Sometimes 1 and 2 stars are just angry people or a competitor. If they recommend some other product, take it with a grain of salt. If they complain about delivery and packaging, that's usually a local post office issue and I don't put a lot of weight on those complaints. If they complain about things I don't really care about like color for a kitchen gadget or bagginess in a baggy sweater, I don't put much weight on them.

It requires looking at the reviews carefully. There are apps that will evaluate a rating based on reviews for you but they get it wrong a lot too.