Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by thrwn_frthr_awy on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:48PM (#25460945)

I wrote a negative review for a projector recently. The projector was so bad and had such good reviews I questioned this directly in my review. I later got a direct email (not an amazon message) from the seller asking if I would take down the review if they refunded me and let me keep the projector.

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by GordonS on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:06PM (#25461700)

Here in the UK I had this happen once, but with much cheaper items: light bulbs. I ordered bright LED bulbs (I forget the purported lumens figure), but they where clearly nowhere near as bright as advertised. I gave a balanced 3-star review and was contacted the seller saying they'd refund me and let me keep the bulbs if I removed my review. I obviously declined, as I had no use for the bulbs in any case!

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by newsbinator on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:27PM (#25461334)

How did you proceed?

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by wpietri on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:35PM (#25461417)

I would have been very tempted to take the refund and then put up another bad review, adding on about the bribe.

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