Consumerpedia

77 - Amazon Floods Search Results with Ads


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Amazon is convenient, but America's second-largest retailer

—and most dominant online merchant—too often steers customers toward items it gets paid extra to promote. Our researchers looked for 50 products on Amazon; half of what the retailer showed them were paid promos.

In this episode: What's the deal with all these ads? Can you trust Amazon to show you the best products and prices? And is there a way to get rid of these paid promos when shopping?

Read Checkbook's full report about ads on Amazon.

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