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Amazon is weird, I bought a product in the mail the other day and they offered me a $20 coupon (the product only cost $25) if I wrote a five star review. So I w
by wincy 7y ago
Amazon is weird, I bought a product in the mail the other day and they offered me a $20 coupon (the product only cost $25) if I wrote a five star review. So I wrote a one star review talking about how I don’t want to be bribed and they can’t make me be dishonest and to warn people. But amazon didn’t allow my review. So that sucks, and makes me not trust any reviews on Amazon.
- didibus 7y agoI mean, how could they trust you weren't a fraudster from a competing product?
- pixl97 7y agoBecause they actually purchased the product?
- didibus 7y agoI don't think that's a great deterrent. Especially for a low cost item, I'm pretty sure it happens a lot that competitors would buy a few products of yours and then leave negative reviews as "Verified Purchase".
- chongli 7y agoAmazon is not a neutral referee though. They have an incentive to block (both fraudulent and legitimate) one star reviews but keep (even fraudulent) five star reviews: better reviews lead to more sales.
- r00fus 7y agoGuessing that Amazon has some way for the seller to dispute the review, or they use some heuristics to determine that a comment is “on topic”.