Show me some examples of reviews you think are legit. First I'll start off by telling you that the whole "give a positive review but list a few minor negatives to make said review sound legit" is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Personally the only reviews I put any amount of trust in at all are reviews from people with an established online identity. I don't mean internet celebrites....just people who are long term members of a website, any website. For example, if someone with over 1000 posts on a forum said a product works, I obviously wouldn't just blindly take their word for it, but I would take their review into consideration. Same goes for reviews youtubers that have made many videos unrelated to the product at hand.
Reviews I do not put any stock what-so-ever into are:
1) Reviews on anonymous review websites.
2) Reviews from posters with less than 50 posts and they're all related to the product in question.
3) Reviews from youtubers who's only video is them giving a positive review on the product, or them giving positive reviews on other products from the same company.
With that said, I have done a lot of research on at home hair removal products, and they all seem to be scams. For example, somewhat recently I did a lot of research on the Tria and I concluded that it is a scam. There are loads of positive reviews on it but they all ether anonymous or from posters on forums who signed up and only made a few posts about Tria.
Almost all of the reviews of Tria from people with actual established online identities were negative.
Here's a typical review of a legit Tria review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_NT70CTX0Now....on to the Silk'n Bellalite. Upon seeing this thread I did a bit of research, and I have not yet many reviews from people with established online identities....then again I didn't look that much. I'll look a bit more later tonight. One thing that puts me off right away is that there are so many people signing up and making 1 post on forums raving about how it works and that's the only post they ever made. Obviously these are advertisements under the false guise of being legit customer reviews...meaning the company is paying people to do this. That's red flag number one.
Another reason I already have my doubts is simply the amount of power it uses.
At home laser systems obviously use much less power than professional ones. The Tria (which I am sure is a scam) uses 20 joules per square cm on its maximum settings. By contrast, the Silk'n Bellalite uses only 5 joules per square cm on its maximum settings, yet another reason to doubt this is legit.
By the way here's a good forum wrt laser hair removal, and every other form of hair removal:
http://www.hairtell.com/forum/I'll probably go through all of the long threads on there related to silk'n if only because I have nothing better to do.
