How much do you rely on online vendor user reviews?

[techs]

I find the NewEgg user reviews to be excellent. Once I weed out the newbies who didn't know what they were buying, or how to put it together, I find them very helpful and almost always read them (well, not all when there are like 1000). I particulary like the fact they tell you whether the person bought the item or not.
I wish all sites did this.

Best Buy are meh.

Amazon can be good, but I don't read them for the user opinions on how good the product is , but for the details of exactly how the product works, what it can do and can't do.

Which do you use and why?

 

[SonnyDaze]

I mainly use NewEgg for online electronic purchases. I will read, in depth, the reviews on a product I am considering purchasing. Also weeding out the idiots that can't tell a card reader from a floppy drive.

Though I recently was researching a fishing reel online and kept finding in the reviews that this particular reel didn't work well with braid line, which I intended on using. Reviewers were saying that the braid didn't come off the spool correctly, etc. After picking up the same reel locally and spooling it with braid, I took it out and had no problems with it. I guess the users just didn't know how to spool braided line....or any line for that matter. So what do they do? Blame it on the product.