Happened to me when I saw a book on the US site, I wasn’t able to see all reviews, but there was a button to sort-of “apply” to get approved for seeing all of them.
It took five days, then I got this email.
Interestingly, they’re not doing this on the European site, you can still see all reviews there.
I’ve used Amazon for many years. I hadn’t written a lot of reviews. Recently I’ve been getting a lot of shitty products. So I started writing bad reviews. Maybe others are doing the same now too.
Lots of their electronics options are these really TEMU-tier garbage specs with half a mile of promotional material between the “Buy” button and the details/reviews.
You really need to know what you’re trying to buy, how to use the filters to screen out the crap, and even then its a gamble. Amazing to feel the temptation to just go to Best Buy.
Best Buy is great. They have this thing called a “store”, which I guess is what they use to store all the products? Anyway, you can just drive there and they ship the product directly into your hands! It’s crazy. I hope it catches on.
Never thought I would ever read that. They were famous for their pushy staff. I absolutely hated going there. The last time I was in a Best Buy, Amazon was still a bookstore. I had a cart with $2000 worth of products that I couldn’t buy at Staples, Office Max, or Target. The cashier pissed me off so badly with their persistant warranty upsell that I left everything at the register and walked out.
I try to review everything positive or negative because I rely on reviews. I’ve been banned from reviewing, and I pay for prime. Wtf. They say I’ve done suspicious activity or violated review terms, but won’t let me see previous reviews, and won’t let me appeal. Bull crap.
The only thing I can think i did is, do you know you’re not allowed to include in the review anything about shipping or packaging? You’re only allowed to review the product itself. So if you let others know your item came broken due to poor packaging, that’s a violation of terms. I don’t even remember doing that, but it’s the only rule I can imagine myself breaking!
There’s a lot of fakes mixed in with regular inventory because individual sellers can send their products to have Amazon fulfill orders for them and Amazon just mixes inventory all together. This is why I don’t buy a lot of name brand stuff from Amazon, especially things like shampoo as you don’t know what you’re getting.
They did actually stop co-mingling lately
Too late. That should have never been a thing in the first place. It’s common sense that it would be a problem.
Doesn’t matter much in relation to reputational damage.