Arrela Flashlight on Amazon (Unbelievable Customer Ratings)

I just did a search on Amazon for "flashlights" and sorted by "average customer review" for criteria. The flashlight below came up as the top number one flashlight for best customer ratings. 677 5-star ratings and not one rating below 5 stars. Why WOW! - that's gotta be the most highly praised flashlight EVER on Amazon.

Ah, but all is not as it seems. Do you see what's really really odd about those 677 5-star rating?

I won't spoil it for you, just do a little digging into those ratings.

Amazon Link HERE

18650 or 3×AAA in the blurb, yet so many of the reviews claim it takes a single AA cell. ??

Methinks they’re not referring to the same light.

Lol, amazon should use fakespot and filter out these bots, gets ridiculous at times, the fact I have to check fakespot on 80% of the items I view is just wrong

Looked briefly, not a single one that I saw was “Verified purchase”.

I am fascinated by your avatar btw, cant stop staring at it when I read a post of yours.

It gets better, too. It is listed as a “new release”

. . . and in addition to that, check almost any profile of a reviewer and note when they first signed up with Amazon.

. . . and you'd think there would be at least one question asked with over 650 reviews

Nearly all of them are from Nov 16-17. Not fake at all

Well… what are we all waiting for? :smiley: Let’s Do It!!

HypnoBender…

That “glitter mode” in the second bullet point is a real game changer apparently. Especially when you couple that with BRIGHTNESS LONG TIME WORK, I don’t think you can lose.

Let’s go to Mahz!

It’s been a long day and my eyes are a little blurry - is the brand name “lemon”?

And why only a 2800 mAh battery? We all know these flashlights usually come with an 8,000 or 10,000 mAh 18650 …

lol!
a lot of shill work for a generic $2 light.

Same date on all reviews 17.Nov/ 17 Oct :disappointed:

Shill reviews all from 2-3 dates.