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Re:How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon [video] by tivert on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:09PM (#18701734)
> Sorry, but that's not going to help at all. After Amazon banned incentivized reviews, pretty much all the sellers contacted the reviewers to buy products and then get reimbursed by PayPal. Sure, it's against the rules, but it's not being enforced.

Source for that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-merchant...

If you have a Facebook account, you can find those groups easily. Though you may have to search for obfuscations like "AZON".

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Re:How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon [video] by slantyyz on Monday December 17, 2018 @04:09PM (#18702243)
While I get that those groups exist, the sellers didn't have to do any new work to "convert" their existing reviewers.

Most if not all of the top-ranked incentivized reviewers already had longstanding communications with sellers via email.

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