There are paid reviews in google maps!!!

I had an instance where I contracted a company with 4.9 (120) and received the worst service and quality possible.

I couldn’t believe it was just my bad luck so I went back to the reviews and took a deeper look.

Most reviews were fake.

1 week old reviewers with ~3 reviews all 5 stars and extremely eloquent about how great everything was.

You cannot trust google maps for reviews.