What the heck, Amazon?

Subnuts · 11-15-21, 02:09 PM

Just need to rant about something.

I've been writing reviews regularly for Amazon for more than seven years now. Always played by the rules, never received free products in exchange for a review, always wrote honestly, without hyperbole and without obscenity. I never wrote for financial gain, but mostly just because I enjoyed sharing my thoughts on products I'd purchased. Sure, I sometimes reviewed products I hadn't bought on Amazon, but I feel like what I said earlier still applies.

So, I woke up this morning to find out that Amazon had deleted nine of my reviews, and I'd lost almost 60 helpful votes in the process. No e-mail, no explanation, just boom, gone! Sent an e-mail to customer service asking what happened and if they can reinstate my reviews, but I'm not expecting an answer. There's so many dishonest reviewers on Amazon right now, I can't figure out why they'd go after me.

Ticks me off that my hard work can just vanish because of an arbitrary decision probably made by a machine. I've spent thousands of dollars on Amazon over the years, and they've just flipped me off for absolutely no reason.

Catfish · 11-15-21, 03:25 PM

See it this way, you helped Mr. Bezos to go to space, or at least into orbit.
All else is, as all things IT, highly volatile and not meant to last

August · 11-15-21, 03:51 PM

You make money or something off of these reviews and helpful votes?

Jimbuna · 11-16-21, 07:48 AM

If it were me I'd be shopping elsewhere.

11-15-21, 02:09 PM	#1
Subnuts The Old Man Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,658 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	What the heck, Amazon? Just need to rant about something. I've been writing reviews regularly for Amazon for more than seven years now. Always played by the rules, never received free products in exchange for a review, always wrote honestly, without hyperbole and without obscenity. I never wrote for financial gain, but mostly just because I enjoyed sharing my thoughts on products I'd purchased. Sure, I sometimes reviewed products I hadn't bought on Amazon, but I feel like what I said earlier still applies. So, I woke up this morning to find out that Amazon had deleted nine of my reviews, and I'd lost almost 60 helpful votes in the process. No e-mail, no explanation, just boom, gone! Sent an e-mail to customer service asking what happened and if they can reinstate my reviews, but I'm not expecting an answer. There's so many dishonest reviewers on Amazon right now, I can't figure out why they'd go after me. Ticks me off that my hard work can just vanish because of an arbitrary decision probably made by a machine. I've spent thousands of dollars on Amazon over the years, and they've just flipped me off for absolutely no reason. __________________ My Amazon.com reviews

11-15-21, 03:25 PM	#2
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	See it this way, you helped Mr. Bezos to go to space, or at least into orbit. All else is, as all things IT, highly volatile and not meant to last __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

11-15-21, 03:51 PM	#3
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	You make money or something off of these reviews and helpful votes? __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

11-16-21, 07:48 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	If it were me I'd be shopping elsewhere. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!