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Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

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Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

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I would love to hear any sites that people still trust and rely on when choosing products to buy (or reviews in general).

I find that Wirecutter is still fine, despite its weird new reputation.

Rtings.com for electronics.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?reviews/ for high-end audio products.

Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

#12

This happens to me (here in California) regularly. When this happens I leave a review saying so, either on the product itself or on the seller's page. Amazon always deletes these reviews. So, Amazon knows about the practice, and approves of it. Not much you can do at that point.

Yep, I've posted more than a few 'Seller sent me a giftcard to bribe for a good review' - Amazon deletes them.

Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

#13
I’ve had offers to remove a review. Bought a highly rated kettle that broke in a couple of weeks which I returned. Left a review saying such and started to receive offers to remove the review. Started at £20 and they kept coming even though I reported them. No, I didn’t take the offer.

Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

#15
post #7

Why doesn't Amazon care?

Cause you keep buying. Or rather, because you haven’t canceled your Prime yet. Do it now.

I guess I'm happy to live in a country where Amazon showed up too late (Sweden). Their offering for non-Chinese brands seems like a joke in comparison to the online retail landscape here. It's good for cheap noname (weirdname?) Chinese electronics (think e.g. TPA3116D2-based amplifier boards) though.

Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

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post #13

I’ve had offers to remove a review. Bought a highly rated kettle that broke in a couple of weeks which I returned. Left a review saying such and started to receive offers to remove the review. Started at £20 and they kept coming even though I reported them. No, I didn’t take the offer.

Why not take the money and just not remove the review?

Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

#17

This happens to me (here in California) regularly. When this happens I leave a review saying so, either on the product itself or on the seller's page. Amazon always deletes these reviews. So, Amazon knows about the practice, and approves of it. Not much you can do at that point.

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Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

#18

This happens to me (here in California) regularly. When this happens I leave a review saying so, either on the product itself or on the seller's page. Amazon always deletes these reviews. So, Amazon knows about the practice, and approves of it. Not much you can do at that point.

Reason being those are supposed to be reviews of the product. The same reviews will be shown if a different seller is selling the same product. Seller-specific reviews hurt completely independent sellers

Amazon has suspended big sellers like Mpow and Aukey for this practice, so they do take action on these tactics

Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

#19

This happens to me (here in California) regularly. When this happens I leave a review saying so, either on the product itself or on the seller's page. Amazon always deletes these reviews. So, Amazon knows about the practice, and approves of it. Not much you can do at that point.

Reason being those are supposed to be reviews of the product . The same reviews will be shown if a different seller is selling the same product. Seller-specific reviews hurt completely independent sellers Amazon has suspended big sellers like Mpow and Aukey for this practice, so they do take action on these tactics

> Reason being those are supposed to be reviews of the product.

I understand that, so I only leave reviews on the product if it's a single seller, selling their own product. I think "this product comes with a scam offer" is a valid review of the product.

I also leave seller reviews, of the seller, on the seller's page. (Many people don't realize you can do this.) These are deleted too.

Re: Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review

#20
I'm in the US. Before I stopped buying things from Amazon (this is one of the reasons why I stopped -- a minor one, but one nonetheless) I'd say this happened with about 1//3 of my purchases.

I never left a review, but would report the practice to Amazon. If Amazon cares, they didn't indicate it to me.

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