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Amazon’s Pay-Per-Review Problem Persists

July 31, 2018
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Amazon Basically Bans Incented Reviews
Amazon Commerce // October 04, 2016

Amazon is dedicated to making it much, much harder to just buy a product because of a good review (or few thousand good reviews). New updates to the Community Guidelines announced yesterday will ban reviews that came for an incentive — unless, of course, those incentives come...

Amazon’s War Of Attrition Against Fake Reviewers
Amazon Commerce // April 26, 2016

Amazon has had it with sites like PaidBookReviews that offer the aspiring novelist 100 book reviews on Amazon for the bargain price of $2,200. How sick of fake reviews is Amazon? So sick that PaidBookReviews is one of five companies that will be facing off...

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Amazon’s Pay-Per-Review Problem Persists

July 31, 2018
Amazon continues to have a problem with paid-for product reviews that tend to give customers an overly favorable impression of the goods they are buying. It is a problem that hit Travis, a Northeastern teen looking for a trigger lock for his rifle. He ordered what seemed to be the best-reviewed piece on the marketplace site, […]