Tons of Amazon vendors pay for reviews. Either a direct offer ahead of time (buy this product, give it a 5 star review, we pay you via PayPal), an offer in the

Tons of Amazon vendors pay for reviews. Either a direct offer ahead of time (buy this product, give it a 5 star review, we pay you via PayPal), an offer in the box (give us a good review and we'll give you a free product!), or in response to a bad review (delete your review and we'll give you a refund). This is expected behavior now on Amazon. Amazon doesn't ever seem to penalize these vendors as they keep making Amazon money. They will, however, ban customers from leaving reviews once they have engaged in this. And prevent users from posting reviews mentioning things like receiving counterfeit products (had this happen to me).