Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers

Name: Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers
Rating: 4.273892773892774 (1716 reviews)
Author: https://www.fakespot.com

Protect yourself from bad sellers and fake reviews on Amazon and more!

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Fakespot for Chrome is a powerful extension designed to safeguard your online shopping experience on popular eCommerce platforms like Amazon and eBay. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Fakespot instantly analyzes product reviews and seller performance to provide real-time grades and ratings, helping you avoid fake reviews and unreliable sellers.

Key features include instant Fakespot Guard seller ratings, Fakespot Grades for reviews, customizable search result sorting and filtering by best grades, and highlights that summarize review content at a glance. With Fakespot Accounts, users can track product searches, receive trusted offers, and get important product updates. Compatible with the latest Google Chrome browser, this extension offers a smarter, safer way to shop online, helping you make informed purchasing decisions every time.

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By:

https://www.fakespot.com

Users:

600,000+ -100,000

Rating:

4.27

(1,716)

Version:

1.6.3 Last updated: 2025-02-15

Creation date:

2020-06-26

Risk:

Permissions:

identity
identity.email
unlimitedStorage
activeTab
storage
scripting
cookies

Host permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*

Size:

5.43M

Email:

co*****@fakespot.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 665 ▼ 54

Other rankings

#9 in Shopping ▲ 1

#8 in review keyword 21 ▼ 5

#10 in amazon keyword 62 ▼ 3

#29 in amazon seller keyword 18 ▼ 7

#31 in ebay keyword 19 ▼ 3

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Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers (v1.5.1)

52,333+ 3.09

(319)

User reviews

Fakespot is valued for its ability to detect fake reviews on Amazon and some e-commerce sites, helping shoppers trust product ratings. However, users experience frequent technical issues such as browser slowdowns, servers errors, and failure on specific Amazon country sites. It also inaccurately flags legitimate eBay sellers, reducing trust in its assessments. While helpful in theory, inconsistent performance and reliability problems limit its usefulness for some users.

Pros

Helps determine the trustworthiness of Amazon reviews, assisting in making informed purchase decisions.
Works well on Amazon and some other major e-commerce sites, providing useful ratings and analysis.
Provides clear reliability grades (A/B/C/D) for reviews, helping users screen products efficiently.
Has a valuable impact for users who want to avoid fake or misleading reviews when shopping online.
Popular and recommended by users as a tool to avoid unreliable sellers and reviews.

Cons

Extension often exhibits performance issues, causing browser lag or freezing, especially when closing tabs.
The extension frequently fails to work on non-US Amazon domains (e.g., amazon.ae, amazon.de, amazon.co.za) or shows server errors during analysis.
Gives false or inaccurate flags on eBay sellers, incorrectly warning users about sellers with perfect or genuine feedback.
The extension no longer remembers user settings consistently, requiring manual adjustment each time.
Some users report it stopped functioning properly, giving errors like 'not enough reviews' or 'reanalysis not possible' for all products.

Recent reviews

Not supporting my country

Ahmed Hegazi, 2025-04-20

I sell on eBay and have a 100% positive feedback score with 1373 transactions, most of which have been sales. Yet for some reason this extension gave ME a certified "Seller Caution by Fakespot Guard" claiming I had no seller history. I have literally hundreds of well written reviews that go into detail what was purchased from me, speed of delivery, attention to customer service, ect. So if this garbage extension got me dead wrong how can I possibly believe anything it "warns" me of? It's all a bunch of gibberish b.s. The irony of being called fakespot while being fake itself is almost to much. ......10+ pages of reviews, top rated seller for past 3 years.......ridiculous to give me a warning saying no history!! See for yourself Eriecomics@eBay

phillip johnson, 2025-04-07

I am not sure what happened in mid 2024 but this extension started making chrome almost unusable. It freezes chrome for a few seconds when closing a single tab, and close to half a minute when closing multiple tabs. Shame because I like the extension it self, but I cant keep this enabled for day to day use if it makes my browser so laggy.

Alex Crews, 2025-04-04

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Medium This extension was updated in the past 3 months. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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