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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by greggman3 on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:41AM (#25464771)
Yes, it's sad.

I've had Yelp and AirBnB remove reviews. I don't know what to do about it. They Yelp one I can't verify the service (a dentist) didn't get better. The AirBnB one I can tell nothing was fixed because the issues are verifiable in the listing itself.

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by ketamine__ on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:15AM (#25464969)
Third-party anonymous reviews. It would have to be anonymous because Airbnb bans users for reviewing outside their platform.

https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/02/18/how-i-got-bann...

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by rapnie on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:22AM (#25465325)
> because Airbnb bans users for reviewing outside their platform.

Wow, it get more and more evil the further I read down this thread. What a shitty, shitty companies are involved in all these shenanigans!

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by ketamine__ on Sunday December 20, 2020 @09:26AM (#25486383)
I'm sure in some cases older reviews aren't relevant but in other cases they are quite important as they describe the host's attitude.

I met a person that rented the same horrific Airbnb I rented in Snoqualmie, WA. They were horrified too and wanted their money back. Airbnb said it was possible but they had to check with the owner. This was two years after my stay and after the host had been warned multiple times and had their superhost status stripped!

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