Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by willhslade on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:48PM (#25460212)

I’ve been party to this scheme incidentally and the antenna I bought mentioned that they would only honour one purchase for a discount.

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by Buttons840 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:53PM (#25460262)

But how many products/companies are doing this? If there's 500 different products/companies offering $20 gift cards for 5-star reviews you can milk that for awhile and spread the word to others who are also in on the scheme.

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:01PM (#25460365)

Unfortunately they don't seem to advertise the gift card.

Maybe there should be a site with current gift card offers - call it something like reviewbribes.com?

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by OJFord on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:06PM (#25460424)

And do we use that site to avoid dodgy products/companies, or to 'side hustle' (god I hate that) reviewing and returning?!

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by Buttons840 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:11PM (#25460468)

Both. Those in on the hustle will do the work to keep the site updated (making money in the process). Everyone else just uses it to spot fake reviews.

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by rzzzt on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:51PM (#25460977)

A review review site, then.

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by ineedasername on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:31PM (#25461898)

And the arms race continues...

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