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Customer reviews are becoming a fixture on retail and consumer brand websites, with over 70% of retailers planning to feature them by the end of the year. The accelerated adoption of customer reviews indicates a more enlightened approach to handling negative comments, that is, the acknowledgment that occasional negative reviews do not hurt sales.

Under which of the following conditions is the above strategy likely to backfire?

(A) The quality of the product in question is so poor that a customer is not likely to buy it in the first place.

(B) There are frequent negative reviews for a product.

(C) The 20% of the retailers who do not launch this feature decide to offer huge discounts on their products.

(D) The customers of a product never come to know about the existence of this feature on the product website.

(E) It costs retailers a considerable sum of money to implement this feature on their respective websites.


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The argument states that the occasional negative review will not hurt sales but what if the negative reviews became more frequent. Then this strategy of encouraging customers to post reviews may backfire. B states this and is the correct answer.

(A) If the customer doesn’t buy the product then there will be no reviews—negative or positive.

(B) The correct answer.

(C) This may lead to a temporary reduction in sales for the remaining 80% of the retailers but is in no way connected to the strategy of encouraging customers to post product reviews.

(D) In this case the strategy may not work but it will definitely not backfire either. There will be at worst no effect.

(E) This has again no connection with the strategy backfiring.
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