Can I Review Again After Amazon Bans Me
How I got banned from Amazon Reviews for beingness too good at reviewing stuff
I was once among the top 1000 reviewers in Amazon, until Amazon, without warning, deleted all of my 2000 or so reviews going back more than xv years (I've been an Amazon member since 2002). There was no warning nor find.
I do recall that in the prior calendar week, I tried to leave reviews on 2 items (out of two dozen items), I had received a warning nearly this item is under some sort of review lockdown due to some sort of suspected review manipulation. I shrugged and went on review something else I had previously ordered.
Then came the ban.
I tried contacting the chat team support, I was assured that someone volition get back to me in 24 hours. I tried again in 12 hours. No i ever did.
On the 3rd day, I found a unlike electronic mail address and wrote them asking for an explanation. I got a generic response dorsum that my request was handed to the community team, and it may take them several days to get back to me.
Eventually, I got a generic response that defendant me of receiving payment for my reviews, and there is NO entreatment.
Hullo Kasey Chang,
We determined that you have violated the Amazon Community Guidelines. As a outcome, we have suppressed all of your reviews, and you will no longer be able to post reviews on Amazon.com.
Customer Reviews are meant to requite customers unbiased product feedback from fellow shoppers. Because our goal is to provide Customer Reviews that assistance customers brand informed buy decisions, whatever reviews that could be viewed as advertizement, promotional, or biased volition not exist posted.
Your community privileges may have been revoked for one or more of the following reasons:
— Elements of your account point a relationship to sellers, publishers, or other reviewers of the products you review.
— Your reviews were posted in substitution for compensation, such as gift cards to purchase the product, production refunds, review swaps, or free or discounted products.
— You requested gratis or discounted products in exchange for reviews.Learn more about this policy in Seller Central Help
— Community Guidelines (https://www.amazon.com/review-guidelines)
— Anti-Manipulation Policy for Customer Reviews (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201749630)
— Nearly Promotional Content (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aid/customer/brandish.html?nodeId=202094170)Nosotros made this decision later carefully considering your account. This decision is terminal, and your community privileges volition non be reinstated.
Unfortunately, nosotros cannot provide any further information at this time.
Review Moderator Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com
For the record, I have received TWO items free for review (one's a ability bank, the other a clock-radio), simply they are from LONG BEFORE Amazon banned "compensated reviews", which was in 2016. I take NOT received whatsoever costless products for reviews or received whatever "rebates" since. I do get multiple offers in my email inbox, but I stick them in the spam bin.
I sympathise perfectly why Amazon would want to stamp out imitation reviews. It undermines the trustworthiness of the peer review system, and there are spammers in Asia and Eastern Europe who are paid a pittance to churn out fake reviews to help prop up some shaky product in what's equivalent of digital sweat-shops.
But I have posted near 2000 reviews before this happened. What would have triggered this sudden ban?
After going over my review activities earlier this ban happened, I can only think of two reasons:
a) Amazon has resorted to pattern recognition, and I had somehow posted reviews in a mode that resembles the posting blueprint of a review spammer: I posted too many reviews too fast.
b) I reviewed a product in a category that attracted review spammers, such every bit Bluetooth headphones.
In the menses before the ban, I posted almost 26 reviews in 48 hours. Out of the 26, twenty were eBook reviews, and half-dozen were products I really ordered for myself for my work or life.
Every bit I typically read about 2-3 books a twenty-four hours on my Fire tablet (with help of text-to-speech) I easily build upwardly a excess of reviews I need to post. (Check my Goodreads business relationship, Amazon!)
Equally for concrete products, I order stuff in many different categories.
- I ordered socks, shoe-lace replacements, a cap, and flashlight batteries because I piece of work equally a delivery driver and I need stuff that works for me (I have a flashlight the clips to my cap, and I need comfy shoes)
- I ordered phone holsters and pouches considering I accept a phone that is hard to fit (a Samsung Galaxy S6 with a Mophie Juice Pack)
- I ordered 3 different backpacks in the concluding 2 months because the season is changing and I am trying to find one that fits what I need
- I ordered power banks, USB cables, and Lightning cables because I always need them around
- I ordered a Bluetooth headset (neckband blazon) because the refurb i I bought off Amazon iii months ago no longer has sound on one side
- I ordered a bug zapper for my kitchen because I'k seeing those piffling flying gnats and I am NOT using bug spray around the kitchen.
- I ordered MOLLE pouches for my bag because I like how they are modular and I can add them to my bag instead of buying a bigger bag.
- And sometimes, I do impulse buys, like a tiny cast-iron skillet for frying an egg, and then on. I do read bargain websites like TheInventory (formerly Kinja Deals)
I exercise not know what sort of blueprint triggers an Amazon review ban, simply as I stated before, I suspect posting 26 reviews in 48 hours would have triggered such. Merely when I did complete every one of those ebooks (Hey Amazon! Bank check my Goodreads record, again!) and I rarely if ever requite products 5 stars. I've been known to requite out 1'south and 2's likewise.
Amazon, in their attempt to rid the platform of fake reviews, handled the situation with permanent across-the-board review ban. For a handful of suspicious (to Amazon) reviews, ALL 2000 (or so) of my reviews became victims of the ban-hammer.
Allow'due south face information technology... Information technology is Non possible to find compensated reviews until you have a large sample size and you analyze them, compare them with statistical models, and measure deviations thereof. And fifty-fifty then, it'south not a clearcut decision, only "high probability".
According to Amazon Review-Appeals:
We made this determination after carefully considering your account. This decision is final, and your community privileges will not be reinstated. Unfortunately, nosotros cannot provide any further information at this fourth dimension.
How carefully can they decide I've been compensated without consulting my financial records? They can't. They simply "suspected". Withal with no further appeal, it is Incommunicable to prove one's innocence. You are pronounced guilty and sentenced, by nebulous show you don't have or understand, and no entreatment possible.
I've just read Jackson Cunningham's risk about him having been banned from Airbnb. And it's quite eerie how the two tales repeat each other. We both have given plenty of value to the respective platforms, yet for some undisclosed reason, we've both been banned. Obviously, my review ban is non every bit serious as Jackson's wholesale ban from Airbnb, but information technology'southward scary to think how much ability these behemothic companies have over the states.
Maybe Big Brother is watching over us already.
Source: https://medium.com/@kschang777/how-i-got-banned-from-amazon-reviews-for-being-too-good-at-reviewing-stuff-ede164c142d9
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