It's funny -- a lot of products are 90% 5-star reviews, but nearly all the top reviews on a page are 1-star (the ones that get voted up as "most helpful").<p>This actually seems to solve the problem. You read through a bunch of them, and use your critical thinking to figure out if the problems are real are not.<p>Because the first couple are often just "this product broke after using it once!" which you can just ignore, because that's always going to happen to <i>somebody</i> and for some reason people love to upvote it.<p>But then you'll either start to notice a theme, or not. If there's a theme (8 of the 10 top reviews complain that the handle breaks, or that it's not compatible with Macs), then you can be pretty sure it's legitimate and probably want to look for a different product. But if there isn't any theme except "it broke immediately/arrived damaged" and then you start seeing reviews where people are like "it works fine", then you're good.<p>I dunno, but that seems to work for me. So thank goodness Amazon has the upvote button -- if it didn't it would make finding meaningful reviews a lot harder.