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If the rules are to not include pricing information and you include pricing information, how do you possibly get upset over it being taken down? Reviews are lo

If the rules are to not include pricing information and you include pricing information, how do you possibly get upset over it being taken down? Reviews are long-lived, that pricing info is probably out of date in a few months, but the review will live on for a while, and lead to confusion (Especially since, I assume your reviews were well written, giving them more credibility, and thus leading to more confusion) There is also the problem of confusion over price of a product and its legal implications... if you go to a store that relies on box stickers for pricing, and the stickers only have a price, and there isa box there with a wrong (lower) price on it, the store has to sell it at that price in most states... im sure the law wouldnt kick in over a comment, but you cant blame amazon for guarding against the swarm of people who's sole purpose in life seems to be to get one over on other people

jessriedel 10y ago
Reviews clearly have to take the price into account. You expect different thing from a $40 grill and a $300 one. If Amazon doesn't want explicit price info displayed and they make that clear, fine, but a review can't be accurate under arbitrary price movements.
- jmcdiesel 10y ago
  Its one think to differentiate between $40 and $300, of course. Its another to list actual prices of various products side by side in a comparison chart, that data becomes stale real fast and is factually inaccurate at that point. There is a vast difference in saying "For $500 I expected more" and saying "Product a works out to $4 per plumbus and product b works out to $3.50 per plumbus and product c works out to 3.75 per plumbus" ... that data becomes factually misleading as soon as one of those prices changes.
  - jessriedel 10y ago
    I'd rather have that data than not have it. But of course, it's Amazon's platform.
    - jmcdiesel 10y ago
      You would prefer inaccurate information to no information? Please dont take this as an insult, but you are saying you'd rather be stupid than ignorant...
  - danjayh 10y ago
    The actual plubusses were batteries, and the actual data was mAh/$. I have found that the relative mAh/$ for various brands stays fairly stable over time even as the price changes, so the data is valid. I've a plumbus change positions relative to another once over two years since I wrote most of my battery reviews.

jessriedel 10y ago

Reviews clearly have to take the price into account. You expect different thing from a $40 grill and a $300 one. If Amazon doesn't want explicit price info displayed and they make that clear, fine, but a review can't be accurate under arbitrary price movements.

jmcdiesel 10y ago
Its one think to differentiate between $40 and $300, of course. Its another to list actual prices of various products side by side in a comparison chart, that data becomes stale real fast and is factually inaccurate at that point. There is a vast difference in saying "For $500 I expected more" and saying "Product a works out to $4 per plumbus and product b works out to $3.50 per plumbus and product c works out to 3.75 per plumbus" ... that data becomes factually misleading as soon as one of those prices changes.
- jessriedel 10y ago
  I'd rather have that data than not have it. But of course, it's Amazon's platform.
  - jmcdiesel 10y ago
    You would prefer inaccurate information to no information? Please dont take this as an insult, but you are saying you'd rather be stupid than ignorant...
- danjayh 10y ago
  The actual plubusses were batteries, and the actual data was mAh/$. I have found that the relative mAh/$ for various brands stays fairly stable over time even as the price changes, so the data is valid. I've a plumbus change positions relative to another once over two years since I wrote most of my battery reviews.