Amazon astroturfing

[unixronin]

After buying an anti-snoring mouthpiece from a third-party seller on Amazon, reader Bob received an email from the company offering him a free mouthpiece in exchange for a five-star review.  He noted this attempted bribe in his Amazon review, and Amazon deleted it.  Twice.

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(via randwolf)

Comments

[skellington.livejournal.com]

I got an offer of a $50 bribe to remove my bad review of a company who'd sent me the wrong product, and then delayed crediting my account for 3 weeks after I'd returned it. (And wouldn't send the right product either.)

I never ended up responding to the final offer.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I'd be tempted to accept the bribe and leave the review up.

Or put up a review that says "While this company's service blows, they did give me $50 to change my review, so at least I'm up on the transaction."