I thought your readers might be interested in my recent experience of buying from Amazon – and what looks like a $20 (£15.60) bribe to leave a great review for what I thought was a poor product. Inside the package was a note offering a $20 Amazon voucher if I left a five-star review. I returned the item and left a one-star review highlighting the paid-for-review tactics by the seller. Amazon told us your review had not been published because it breached its community guidelines – that is, you mentioned you had been offered the “bribe”. Last year it prevented more than 13m attempts to leave “inauthentic” reviews, and took action against 5m seller accounts attempting to manipulate reviews.

Source: The Guardian October 21, 2019 06:00 UTC