Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've been using these for 3 months now. I say these because I have 2 washers, a top loader and a front loader(long story)and bought 2 for each washer so I could change them out, not use two at a time and paid $16.73 for each... I so wanted these to be what they claim and gave them every benefit of the doubt. My husband after about 2 weeks started complaining that his cloths and the wash cloths and towels stank... I wanted to believe he was being finicky but it wasn't long before I noticed it too...And I still more or less ignored it because I so badly wanted these to work..But eventually I had to face it. They either don't work at all or very little. I still keep them in my washers and use less detergent than I use to. But in all honesty I probably used way too much before... It's beyond me how these things get such great reviews.. All I can figure is people must write them within the first few loads when the laundry still has left over detergent in them.. All I know is it took about two weeks to get the fowl smell out of the towels and we are not stinky people by any means... My other suspicion is and take it for what it's worth because I am probably overly suspicious, is that it's not really consumers writing most of the reviews.