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The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews & Vanishing Brands - Louis Rossman (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which is weird. Because some reviews have a tag/label specifying "received product for free". So there must be some way to indicate it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I believe those are ones where it's a product sold by Amazon first-party and Amazon themselves sent it free, maybe as part of the Amazon Vine program.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So Amazon goes by the maxim of "rules for thee, but not for me". I can't say that I'm surprised :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

That's LITERALLY what their entire business is...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I always disclose in my reviews if the seller tried to bribe me and that I refused. I have yet to have one taken down for that, and I figure that's something people might want to know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only time I was bribed, I left a note on my review about it, and it's the only product review I've left anywhere that's ever been rejected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yup that's like exactly what I did and what happened to me, except it was a nose hair trimmer