Reviews wiped. Darn.
Well, I can't complain too much. Since December I've received at least 800 freebies/discounted items and still have 66 left to review. I'm still in the 12,000's for ranking, so I'll see what else I can get before the crap train stops completely. Good thing I stocked up for gifts LOL
UPDATE (not that anyone really cares, but...) As of Weds night, I went from 12,000s to 1 millions. Took a week to have my rank changed. Still getting items approved, but not nearly as many. Only 1 today instead of 5-7.
Posted Jun 18, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC · edited
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Damn... 100+ items a month? that might have something to do with it
I just read your post again. Are you actually going to apply/accept offers for free shit, even though you can't review them?
Edit. If it's 1250 items, that's about 175 per month. Is "reviewing" your full time job?
Actually, i looked it up. 1250 items since December. And I'm 99% sure why. I got lots of items from Plant Guru and just noticed in the last few days "you can't review because of a 'relationship' with this seller. I'm thinking that's it. Heck, 100+ items a month is nothing. I'm in a group that chats about our reviews (not a seller group) and I'm one of the low ones. Out of 30+ of us, only two have been wiped in the last 3 months. Some of them get way, way more than that. And... I can still review items. All I said was that my past reviews were wiped. I have more reviews that I've been able to complete, I've not been denied reviewing, just had all past ones wiped.
Well, imo that is just plain ridiculous. There is no way in hell anyone could possibly review 6 items a day - 7 days a week for 7 months and still actually test everything well enough to "truthfully" give an "honest" opinion. My opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it fwiw
Unless it's 1250 USB cables! Plug it in. Does it feel nice? Does it charge? Does it send data? Tug, bend, pull, did it break? 10 minutes of word-vomit later and you've got yourself an easy 250 word review.
Pretty much this. Some items can be reviewed fairly quickly, others take a while to actually test. Cell phone cases can be written in a day, but cell phone chargers can take a couple of days to test charging rate (wait for phone battery to run down significantly, time recharge, if multiple ports, test each one). Power banks can be a grind to test the charge/discharge rates, I've spent more than 10 days working through testing some of those.
thats probably the only way. I have a sneaky feeling it's more like this though. Step one. Open Amazon box Step 2. Dump out contents. Step 3. Take pics of items still in packaging.( to make it look legit ) Step 4. Type review from memory and/or copy paste and/or post pre written review Step 5. Rinse and repeat
Yeah, I just did one of these with a ten-foot-long phone charger (and straight-up said in the review that I'd cheerfully buy another for my dining room--after I get through the shit I've already got coming in/going out, I probably will--my house doesn't have a whole lot of electrical outlets). Left a couple apps open to run my phone down to 0%, plugged in the charger, plugged in the phone, timed it for one hour to see how much of a charge it could generate in that time, checked the cord for breaks and kinks, wrote the review.
Teas are the same way. You examine the packaging (is it durable? Will it keep the intended flavor in and other flavors/odors out?), smell the tea for first impression, brew up a cup, taste it plain, add sugar if desired, taste again, add milk if desired, drink it (you can stop at any of these steps depending how you drink your tea), note the prominent flavors and how the milk/sugar changes them, you're done. My tea reviews take me longer to write than to test, and sometimes I even write them while I'm drinking the cup after I've determined what all the flavors are.
And you're welcome to your opinion :) I disagree with you 100% on testing stuff. Example. If we go camping for the weekend and I received 6 camping lights, 2 hammocks and bug repellent, they're used all weekend for a couple of weeks. Easy peasy to do the 6-8 reviews at once after using them for 2-3 weekends. Truthfully and honestly, as I'm an honest person who writes honest reviews, honestly and I hope you upvote all of my reviews as I continue to come up with honest reviews for votes for my honest and unbiased opinion that in no way were stated because I got the items for free, I'm an honest person who honestly likes to honestly review. Honest! Make sure to vote. ha ha ha ha ha.
Lol. Good one lol
Here's another opinion: anyone who has to tell other people they are honest, is full of shit. Just an opinion. $.02
Maybe you are the exception to the rule, hard to say from my viewpoint. But if you were gone for the weekend, you would have 21 more items in your mailbox to review. 21-8= 13 MORE items to review than when you left.
This of course is pure speculation on my part, and if it's not the case, you really are the exception.
Dang, I reviewed a bunch of plant guru oils as well. Haven't had any recently though, and my volume is much lower overall, so maybe I'm safe.
Yep. I got everyone I'd requested, they're such nice quality.
Likewise. There are a lot of crappy oils on review sites, so I was pleasantly surprised. I'm waiting to approved for their shea butter now.
He can still review them, they'd just be on a different profile so he'd be starting over and the offers would stop coming in because of a low ranking
Ummm that's not what s/he said. People on here complain about shadiness all the time, and this seems pretty shady imo. Requesting review items as a 12k reviewer and either not posting them, or posting as 50m. Amazing. I guess when the shoes on the other foot it's all good
Does rank really matter for sellers? At the end of the day, it's still a review on an item that will show up alongside every other review that item has. Unless there's something I'm missing?
Ranking means quite a bit to some sellers. Some don't give a shit if you're in the top 500k or so. Some will dole out cheap items to 1m. Good luck getting anything at 50m. Also, there's a chance that some sellers don't want to be associated with a reviewer that got wiped. There are some honest ones out there, believe it or not.
It likely matters a bit. If your reviewer account has any of the Amazon labels (Top 1,000, Vine, etc) that helps it stand out and brings some extra cred. I also think reviewer rank is used as a second-tier sort criteria for review listings. For example, if you have a high review rank, your review is likely to show above other reviews with the same number of helpful votes in the default, "Most Helpful" sort order.
I can still review items. All I said was that my past reviews were wiped. I have more reviews that I've been able to complete, I've not been denied reviewing, just had all past ones wiped.
That's a new one as far as I know. Usually when you get wiped and ban follows shortly after. Maybe they're switching things up a bit. Good luck