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It's a tactic that's been abused by third-party sellers for a long time now. They list a product, organize a bunch of paid-for 5-star reviews on another platfo
by Wingman4l7 3y ago
It's a tactic that's been abused by third-party sellers for a long time now. They list a product, organize a bunch of paid-for 5-star reviews on another platform (you buy the product, submit a 5-star review, and they refund you the purchase cost, so you get the item for free), and then once all those 5-star reviews are in place, they eventually re-use the product page for another item entirely.
It baffles me that Amazon's item listing system ever allowed this in the first place.
- rincebrain 3y agoNominally, this might make sense with a "people liked the v1 of this and now it's a different SKU", with a note about it being for something else. In practice, it seems very likely harm outweighs the benefits for consumers here, and it's just that it encourages more sales that keeps Amazon allowing it.
- macNchz 3y agoPerhaps forgivable that it was allowed in the first place, but unacceptable that it was allowed to continue after the first time they noticed the lack of a review requirement for product page changes being exploited in this way.