Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
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Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
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Re: Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
#2This is an entirely reasonable stance. A given product could have n(bignum) sellers. A review telling me that a seller is doing shady things tells me nothing about the product. Amazon told him to go review the seller in the appropriate section. What's the problem?
Re: Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
#3Seems similar to how hackernews doesn't allow calling people "paid shills". The review doesn't have any evidence or proof attached. Perhaps reporting the seller to Amazon is a better approach.
Re: Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
#4Seems similar to how hackernews doesn't allow calling people "paid shills". The review doesn't have any evidence or proof attached. Perhaps reporting the seller to Amazon is a better approach.
My review included the picture of the card, they just didn't reattach it to my rejection email
Re: Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
#5This is an entirely reasonable stance. A given product could have n(bignum) sellers. A review telling me that a seller is doing shady things tells me nothing about the product. Amazon told him to go review the seller in the appropriate section. What's the problem?
Right now there are only two sellers
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#6This is an entirely reasonable stance. A given product could have n(bignum) sellers. A review telling me that a seller is doing shady things tells me nothing about the product. Amazon told him to go review the seller in the appropriate section. What's the problem?
When I've encountered this before the shady seller was also the manufacturer.
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#7This is an entirely reasonable stance. A given product could have n(bignum) sellers. A review telling me that a seller is doing shady things tells me nothing about the product. Amazon told him to go review the seller in the appropriate section. What's the problem?
Because the bad seller is also tainting the product reviews. Is (in the case of OP) the camera really a five star product? Or is it a five star product because one seller basically bought x percent of the positive reviews?
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#8This is an entirely reasonable stance. A given product could have n(bignum) sellers. A review telling me that a seller is doing shady things tells me nothing about the product. Amazon told him to go review the seller in the appropriate section. What's the problem?
The problem is that product reviews are right up front on the product page. Seller reviews are 2 more clicks past that, effectively hidden.
Re: Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
#9This is an entirely reasonable stance. A given product could have n(bignum) sellers. A review telling me that a seller is doing shady things tells me nothing about the product. Amazon told him to go review the seller in the appropriate section. What's the problem?
> A given product could have n(bignum) sellers.
Most likely a seller paying for reviews like this has an exclusive on the product, it's likely a product sold directly by the maker.
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#10There is a basic problem that if you see an obvious problem with a product listing on AMZN but you didn't buy the product they could care less.
Sometimes the listing is obviously a scam, sometimes it is is just something that could be better: somebody is selling a box of assorted TTL ICs for $30 which were ill chosen for any use than testing your logic tester. (e.g. with $30 of quad-NANDs you can build a lot)
In the early 2000's I would avoid Staples to avoid crap brands like VTech and go online to seek out Plantronics instead. AMZN got a reputation as a fair dealer for things like HDMI cables compared to a place like Best Buy which might only stock a $99 monster cable.
Slowly AMZN got worse and I have less trust in the marketplace products than I did before,