You sound like my wife. I don't know. I grew up kind of poor and my mindset still has a "If I can get an item typically worth $100-200 for free, TAKE IT".

The plan was to flip them on FB market place but I've just hoarded them.

Fake reviewer vs low ballers…

this example suggests that you'd be happy to get paid in an alternative currency in exchange for Amazon reviews, and that currency is vacuums?! tbh I think your wife is right and you know it.

It's a waste of internet space writing tautologies. The wife is always right.

Good thing the Internet isn't almost out of space

Just hand them out as gifts to friends and family. Stick vacs for Christmas. Maybe keep a spare handy when the first one eventually breaks.

It’s the rational option if someone is giving you something for less than it costs you and the moral implications of the action is minimal (at best).

Sure, but consider the costs of consuming your space with junk. Now you have less room for things you care about, there's a maintenance burden, and there's a mental burden as well

Yes, but were the vacuums actually good? He left 10 reviews for this company, which may have led other people to buy them, and made this company look better than it is... just so he could stuff his shed full of them? That's kinda fucked up. He even said he felt kinda shady about it, so my guess is that the reviews weren't honest.

This is the best summary.

What is the difference between doing this, and any product review currently available on youtube?

There isn't. Most of those shills are liars just taking sponsor money. Are you implying that two wrongs make a right?

Not having things and regretting passing up on something is much more real for people that had problem with money before.

Having too many things is just abstract unless you had that problem maybe

Is 12 vacuums abstract?

It is abstract in the sense that you might not see why that would be a problem

All moral implications are minimal if your morals are flexible enough.

The OP is effectively taking thousands of dollars in bribes to erode public trust. I think even a child would see that this is wrong.

I know every man has their price, but I hope when the time comes my price will be higher than "a bunch of vacuums I don't need and I can't even be bothered to sell".

To be fair, he didn't specify that the reviews were false. Maybe he only agreed because he legitimately likes the vacuums. I think if someone offered me a product I like for free in return for a review, I'd do it. I wouldn't leave a positive review on a bad product though.

Come on, let's be honest here, they wouldn't keep sending you products for free if you left anything less than a stellar review. That's the entire problem with incentivized reviews.

I see where you are coming from, but this is Amazon, a juggernaut which is impossible to render accountable. So, OP is effectively filling their shed space with things which are useless to them and whose monetary value they won't realize. They are also tainting their soul. But by posting fake reviews, they erode trust on Amazon and cause it (some) financial harm. OP is, thus, doing a public service at some personal expense.

I often buy products from Amazon based on how fast they can deliver, with the soonest being approximately five days where I live. They routinely advertise one delivery time and deliver three or four days later, which essentially is false advertising and harmful to local businesses who could easily compete on delivery time. And this is Amazon fulfillment.

Probably the most HN-coded response I can imagine to someone asking why you would possibly want 12 vacuum cleaners.

Who knows. I have lots of siblings and my spouse does as well, so that’s nine vacuums accounted for. Add in both sets of parents and I’d have one left over to gift to someone who also needs one.

I’m not sure how to take your comment other than uncharitably so I’ll just concede that you obviously have smaller dust collection needs than I do.

Stocking up to give them out at Christmas?

Obviously, the plan is to eventually collect enough to construct a Dyson sphere.

So good!

Christmas gifts for the whole family.

> why continue racking up more vacuum cleaners after that?

This guy took bribes to leave fake reviews. He obviously sucks. /s