Spot fake reviews before you buy

Open the product page and scroll to the review section. You're looking for three red flags:

• Rating distribution — a legitimate product has a bell curve (most 4–5 stars, some 3s, a handful of 1–2s). A fake-review product looks like a barbell: 90%+ five stars and almost nothing in between.
• Photo-to-text ratio — genuine buyers often upload photos of what arrived. A wall of text-only five-star reviews with identical phrasing is a paid-review pattern.
• Date clusters — genuine reviews trickle in over time. If 80% of reviews appeared in a two-week burst 6 months ago and nothing since, that's a review campaign, not real demand.

Note how many photos vs text-only reviews you see.

Filter reviews to show only 2-star and 3-star ratings. These are the most honest reviews on AliExpress — unhappy enough to flag problems, but not angry enough to be dismissed as outliers.

Look for recurring complaints across multiple reviewers: - "Smaller than expected" or "nothing like the photo" - "Took 6 weeks to arrive" or "never arrived at all" - "Stopped working after a week" - "Seller not responsive"

One complaint can be a fluke. Three or more with the same pattern means a systematic quality or shipping issue. If you see the same problem from 3+ different buyers, treat it as a near-certainty for your own order.

Paste the seller's AliExpress store URL into the seller checker. The two numbers that matter most:

• Dispute rate — any seller above 2% has systemic quality or shipping issues. Above 5% is a red flag, regardless of how good the listing looks.
• Account age — sellers under 1 year old have no track record. Combine that with a high dispute rate and you have a high-risk order.

Also check response time — sellers who take more than 48h to respond are difficult to work with if your order goes wrong. A fast response time isn't a guarantee, but a slow one is a warning sign.

Enter the product URL and run the trust score. The score aggregates review authenticity signals, seller history, order velocity, and price stability.

Pay attention to this pattern: a low trust score combined with many reviews is the clearest sign of manufactured credibility. Real products earn their reviews gradually. Products with padded reviews often score poorly on authenticity signals even when the surface numbers look impressive.

What to do with the result: - Score 70+ with consistent reviews → safe to order - Score 50–69 → proceed with caution; cross-check with 2-star reviews - Score under 50 → high risk of the product not matching expectations