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Vendor on Amazon offered me money to remove a bad review

sgraham30 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 22:46:18 GMT

How would I contact Amazon to let them know this? The rep that e-mailed me offered to send the refund to my PayPal account (how stupid do they think I am?!) I refused the offer saying that I would not remove the review since I feel that the prospective customer has the right to read both bad & good reviews.

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Love my grandkids — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 22:46:08 GMT

@sgraham30 Amazon has contact info on their website.

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cjm61 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 22:50:55 GMT

This is common practice on Amazon. One reason it's a last resort for me to make a purchase there.

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Bookplate — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 22:54:21 GMT

I have heard of this dishonest practice, as well as all of the fake Amazon reviews there are. Once my husband wrote an unfavorable review for a product he purchased from a third party vendor. He wasn't contacted by the vendor, but he did receive a second shipment of the product he reviewed - as if he would suddenly change his mind about its qualities after receiving a second one free!

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Daisy Sunflower — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:07:34 GMT

I would take the refund and remove the review.

I don't think leaving the negative review would make much of a difference anyway. jmo

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Love my grandkids — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:30:51 GMT

@Daisy Sunflower No way would I take a bribe, and that's all it is, to remove an honest review.

Seriously? I don't need money that badly.

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hckynutjohn — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:30:58 GMT

@sgraham30 wrote:
How would I contact Amazon to let them know this?
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@sgraham30

Call their customer service. The few issues I have had I have called them. I prefer talking to "chatting" or email.

When I receive orders, directly from Amazon, or a 3rd party vendor. I always get an email asking "how did we do". I always fill them out, and as I said above! If I am dissatisfied with something I call them. Pretty simple.

Me personally with your issue. ????????

hckynut 🇺🇸

The rep that e-mailed me offered to send the refund to my PayPal account (how stupid do they think I am?!) I refused the offer saying that I would not remove the review since I feel that the prospective customer has the right to read both bad & good reviews.

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CelticCrafter — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:33:30 GMT

Amazon doesn't accept PayPal for payment.

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hckynutjohn — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:38:08 GMT

@CelticCrafter wrote:
Amazon doesn't accept PayPal for payment.

@CelticCrafter

Did not know that. I don't use PayPal, think my wife does. Strictly Visa at Amazon for me.

You got my attention with this info!

hckynut 🇺🇸

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FLtricia — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:12:51 GMT

A while back I ordered a large heavy item. We had just moved and I forgot to check shipping address. Within minutes I contacted vendor to change delivery address. He flatly refused, said it was too late. So when delivery was made to our old address we had to drive over and accept delivery in the street, load the item up and take it home.

I gave vendor one star and told how he would not help me when I made an error on order. He had the nerve to email me and ask for me to reconsider the bad review since I did receive my item. Guess what? He still has one star!

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chrystaltree — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:18:45 GMT

Amazon has their contact info on the account. If you type contact info in the search bar, it gives you the customer service phone logo. Tap and try are in.

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chrystaltree — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:21:09 GMT

@cjm61 wrote:
This is common practice on Amazon. One reason it's a last resort for me to make a purchase there.

How do you know its a common practice if you aren't an Amazon shopper? It never happened to me and I've been an Amazon shopper since it was only a book seller.

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Mindy D — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:28:32 GMT

I'd report this to Amazon.

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chrystaltree — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:29:17 GMT

@CelticCrafter wrote:
Amazon doesn't accept PayPal for payment.

But they do accept the PayPal debit card.

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Bookplate — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:06:40 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
@cjm61 wrote:
This is common practice on Amazon. One reason it's a last resort for me to make a purchase there.

How do you know its a common practice if you aren't an Amazon shopper? It never happened to me and I've been an Amazon shopper since it was only a book seller.

If you google "amazon fake reviews and wired" or "amazon fake reviews and new yorker" it should bring up articles from those two publications on this problem. I would supply the links but the mods would probably not like it. There are also some genuinely hilarious deliberately fake funny reviews; if you have the time, google "amazon funny reviews".

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cjm61 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 02:11:39 GMT

@chrystaltree Because my daughter shops Amazon all the time. She said that many of the reviews are fake. Somehow, not sure how she does it but, she can weed out fake ones.

One time she went to buy something and said, oh my gosh, there's a ton of fake reviews. She has an app or something that can distinguish between the fake and real ones. Since I rarely shop there I didn't ask how she did it. I'm sure other people here have heard of it that are more savvy than I am with technology.

BTW, just because you shop there doesn't mean you haven't read fake reviews. A quick google search came up with the following:

What percent of Amazon reviews are fake?

42-percent

An analysis which student 720 million reviews on Amazon, deemed 42-percent of them as fake or unreliable.Aug 11, 2022

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cjm61 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:56:52 GMT

I agree with @Bookplate . Look it up @chrystaltree and you will see this is a common practice, particularly on Amazon.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 02:10:34 GMT

@Daisy Sunflower wrote:

I would take the refund and remove the review.

I don't think leaving the negative review would make much of a difference anyway. jmo

@Daisy Sunflower So you can be bought? It may make a big difference to some other person.

If you did what you said, you'd be engaging in and condoning an unethical practice.

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Daisy Sunflower — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 02:49:03 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@Daisy Sunflower So you can be bought? It may make a big difference to some other person.

If you did what you said, you'd be engaging in and condoning an unethical practice.

I think a lot of people don't trust the reviews or don't care about them -- they're going to buy what they want -- and when they receive the item, then they'll make a decision about whether or not to keep it.

I'd rather get my refund than worry about my review and whether or not it would make a difference -- or if anyone even cares about it. You do what you're comfortable with and I'll do what I'm comfortable with.

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manny2 — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 03:10:36 GMT

Fake reviews are commonplace. Not just Amazon. A family member of mine writes a lot of copy. She was offered a job to write reviews for different companies. Of course, they would all be fake. I don’t put a lot of thought into reviews for this reason.