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Old May 26, 2018, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by justafriend306 View Post
I run into this problem with overly high expectations too. One way I have of dealing with this is researching everything before I make a purchase including spending a great deal of time reading reviews. I also do side by side comparisons. This goes for the aniticipated service experience too. .
It is frustrating though because there is always something that is hidden. For instance you will not find a smell issue mentioned on many reviews. But once I did the dishes and smelled it and put in "bosch smell" it came up. I can return it but I don't have endless time to coordinate a return and not really sure if the smell will go away, though I suspect it will because most people don't even mention it.

I have also noticed that most amazon / yelp reviews are just too high. I know that it is possible that people are being paid to do the reviews... but also feel like for most people there is this desire to overstate the good while for me... there is this desire to blow the whistle. If something is good service.. I feel like I do give them high marks. But it amazes me that people can be so willing just to allow and ok time or thing be considered 5 stars?

This morning I went to a spa and it got all 5 stars -- but for me it was lacking. The woman couldn't converse to save her life. Ok sure then we won't talk, but she would randomly ask biographical info. She burned my feet a couple of times with too hard water and would laugh like "oh sorry" err.. no test the water first ON YOU. Every time I would recoil from pain she was giving me she would laugh like I was being ticklish. Frankly I suspect she knew all of it and was just having a grand old time torturing me. How can it be that my experiences and everyone else's are so different?