Vendor on Amazon offered me money to remove a bad ... - Page 3

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

From many years here, I know posters who aren't happy with anything and gripe about everything. So are they going to give a good review? Not a chance.

I'm sure anywhere you read reviews there are fake ones. I take them with a grain of salt and mostly look at them to identify potential problems that would be a no-go for me, and issues several other people have had.

Beth-QVC · ‎06-14-2015

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Highlands22 · ‎01-05-2022

I generally only read the Amazon reviews that are designated "verified purchase" or those that contain customer-provided images.

I suppose these could be inaccurate at times, but for the most part, I accept them as legit.

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

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

@cjm61

Common practice for Amazon? Over 95% of my online purchases are from them, and that has been for well over 20 years

I have never been offered a bribe by any vendor. However one 3rd party vendor emailed me and sent me new parts, no charge, to easily correct a problem with their item. They asked me this: "if this fixes your problem, will you consider changing your review". I said yes.

Their quick action on my problem, that did correct it? I did change my review, along with everything I typed here. They were very quick to help, unlike shopping networks that want me to pay to ship back their mistakes.

The very reason I haven't purchased here since 2002.

hckynut 🇺🇸

hckynut(john)

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

I've never heard of this before. Don't think it's on the up and up, and would have no part of that one.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

I had an incident on Ebay, where I bought something that was clearly not even sub decent for what I paid for it --I tried to deal with the seller but he was not having any of it so I contacted Ebays resolution dept and filled out the paperwork--the seller threatened me with "ruining" my reputation as an excellent buyer if I didn't stop bugging him---and I mean it was threatening in language and intent--but I still pursued and sent Ebay all emails this jerk sent me ----I got my money back and they deleted all this SOB's listings. This was years ago---my standing as an excellent buyer was preserved--- not a huge thing in my life but, dang it, it should hurt to be so stupid!!!

IMW · ‎06-15-2014

I called Amazon --they take it seriously.

Hmmmmm24 · ‎04-24-2019

@sgraham30 wrote:
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.

I'm an Amazon Vine reviewer. I was invited to Vine in 2008. I used to buy a lot of digital cameras when those first came out & I wrote reviews that people found helpful. I was in the Top 500 Reviewers on Amazon before they took away the ranking a couple months ago.

The seller offering you money thru PayPal is nothing new, especially during the past few years when Amazon let in all the third party sellers. Whenever you write a 3 star or less review, the sellers will go crazy. If the money trick doesn't work, they will send you emails that their children will go hungry, they will lose their jobs, etc., etc., until you remove your review rating. Don't delete your review or change the star rating no matter what. These sellers are mostly resellers from China, buying their cheap products from Alibaba and slapping their made-up company name on them.

Amazon knows about this, believe me....and they don't care. So nothing will happen, even if you report it to Amazon. Sure, Amazon will send you an email thanking you for letting them know, but they already know and choose to do nothing. I hope one of these days the third party sellers on Amazon bite them in the rear.

Hmmmmm24 · ‎04-24-2019

@Highlands22 wrote:

I generally only read the Amazon reviews that are designated "verified purchase" or those that contain customer-provided images.

I suppose these could be inaccurate at times, but for the most part, I accept them as legit.

I'm a top-rated Amazon Reviewer, in the Top 500 before Amazon did away with ranking. You can't trust the reviews that have a lot of photos submitted either. Many of these reviewers are members of Facebook Review Clubs, where they get free items ONLY if they continue to leave 5 star reviews. Amazon tried several times to shut down these review clubs, only to have more of them pop up. A review with 1 or 2 photos is fine, I trust those for the most part....but the reviews that have 3+++ photos, no. Especially when the photos only show the item in the box, never having been used. Photos that show defects, yes, I believe those.